International Institutions: Obstacles, Agents, or Conduits of Global Structural Change?

Opportunities for multilateralism appear to abound in the 1990s as they have in the aftermath of both twentieth-century ‘non cold wars’.1 But multilateralism is not inevitable. To the degree that it expands, it is likely to address the globe’s key social problems only selectively. Moreover, the form that multilateralism takes is likely to be contested.