The aim of this volume is to discuss the kinds of multilateralism that would be required to pursue some of the alternative projects of society, namely those which agree with some of the key normative commitments of the MUNS programme: non-violent means for dealing with conflict; social equity; protection of the biosphere; diffusion of power among social groups and societies. The strategies identified here are both 'top-down', ie: relying on conventional international institutions and 'bottom-up', ie: involving a new multilateralism grounded in civil society.

CLAUDE AKE At the time of his death in November 1996, a Visiting Professor of Political Science, Yale University
WALDEN BELLO Co-director of Focus on the Global South at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok
RICHARD A. FALK Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University
PETER HARRIES-JONES Professor of Anthropology at York University in Toronto
TARIQ OSMAN HYDER Pakistan's Ambassador to Ashgabat in Turkmenistan
JAVIER M. IGUIÑIZ-ECHIVERRIA Professor of Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
W. ANY KNIGHT Teaches International Relations at Bishop's University
ABRAHAM ROTSTEIN Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of Toronto
KUMAR RUPESINGHE Secretary General of International Alert, an international non-governmental organization
PETER TIMMERMAN Research Associate of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IES), University of Toronto
RAIMO VÄYRYNEN Professor of Government and International Studies

Preface List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Editor's Introduction; M-G. Schechter PART I: SECURITY ISSUES From Civil War to Civil Peace: Multi-track Solutions to Armed Conflict; K. Rupesinghe Multilateral Security: Common, Cooperative or Collective?; R. V¿ynen PART II: ECONOMY AND ECOLOGY Back to Heterodox Questions: Progress with Regress Through Competition; J. Igui¿Echeverria A Signal Failure: Ecology and Economy After the Earth Summit; P. Harries-Jones, A. Rotstein and P. Timmerman Environmental Rights: Multilateralism, Morality and the Ecology; T. Hyder PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATION The Quest for Human Rights in an Era of Globalization; R. Falk Globalization, Multilateralism and the Shrinking Democratic Space; C. Ake High-Speed Growth, Crisis, and Opportunity in East Asia; W. Bello PART IV: REPRESENTATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY Engineering Space in Global Governance: The Emergence of Civil Society in Evolving 'New' Multilateralism; W. Knight Multilateralism From Below: A Prerequisite for Global Governance; M. Smouts Index