Can the World Be Governed?: Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism

Contributors

Alan S.Alexandroff is research director for the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. He has taught international trade and politics, conflict management, and dispute resolution at a number of North American institutions , including Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario), McGill University , and the University of California at Los Angeles, as well as at the University of Toronto.His research and writing interests include trade, investment, and trade policy in North America; the multilateral trading system; China’s accession to the World Trade Organization and its integration into the global economy; and conflict management in the international system, including the reform of global governance. Dr. Alexandroff is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. His most recent publication is Trends in World Trade: Essays in Honor of Sylvia Ostry (2007), for which he served as editor and contributor. Paul Collier is professor of economics and director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. From 1998 to 2003 he was director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Professor Collier is a specialist in the political, economic, and developmental predicaments of poor countries. He holds a Distinction Award from Oxford Contributors * * * University, and in 1988 he was awarded the Edgar Graham Book Prize for the co-written Labour and Poverty in Rural Tanzania. He is also the author of The Bottom Billion:Why the Poorest CountriesAre Failing andWhat Can Be Done about It (2007), in which he discusses the pros and cons of developmental aid to developing countries. Ferry de Kerckhove is director general of the International Organizations Bureau, part of the Canadian Department of ForeignAffairs and International Trade, and the personal representative of the prime minister of Canada for la Francophonie, the international organization of French-speaking countries . He is responsible for the programs and specialized agencies of the UN covered by Canada’s missions in NewYork, Geneva, Paris, and Rome, and for relations between Canada, the Commonwealth, and la Francophonie . Born in Belgium, Mr. de Kerckhove has a B.Soc. Sc. (Honours) in economics and an M.A. in political science from the University of Ottawa and pursued Ph.D. studies at Université Laval in Quebec City. In 1973 he entered the Canadian foreign service, where he has had a distinguished career, having held posts as minister and deputy head of mission in Moscow, high commissioner to Pakistan, and ambassador to both Indonesia and East Timor. In September 2003, he joined the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa as diplomat in residence. He has published several papers on international relations and Islamic fundamentalism in specialized journals. Daniel W. Drezner is associate professor of international politics at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of All Politics Is Global (2007), U.S. Trade Policy (2006), and The Sanctions Paradox (1999). Professor Drezner has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as well as in the NewYorkTimes, the Washington Post, and ForeignAffairs. He has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University, and has held positions with the Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation, and the US Treasury Department. He keeps a daily weblog at www.danieldrezner.com. James D. Fearon is Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and professor of political science at Stanford 418 | Contributors University. His research has focused on democracy and international disputes , explanations for interstate wars, and the causes of civil and especially ethnic violence. Representative publications include “Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States” (International Security, Spring 2004), “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War” (American Political Science Review, February 2003), and “Iraq’s Civil War” (ForeignAffairs, March/April 2007). He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2002. Patricia M.Goff is associate professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Her fields of expertise include international relations and international political economy. She is co-editor (with Kevin Dunn) of Identity and Global Politics: Empirical andTheoretical Elaborations (2004) and (with...