Leadership in Global Institution Building

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Minervian Actors and the Paradox of Post-1995 Global Institution-Building; Y.Tiberghien PART I: MINERVIAN SETTINGS Varieties of Minervians: Scorecards and Patterns; Y.Tiberghien The European Union as a Minervian Actor in Global Institution Building; I.Manners Canada's Minervian Moment - Global Activism and Domestic Politics; K.R.Nossal PART II: THE COMPETITIVE MODE The UNESCO Declaration of Cultural Diversity; J.Chan International Accounting Standards; N.Véron PART III: THE NORMATIVE MODE The Ottawa Process: Domestic Interests, Transnational Civil Society, and State Identity; P.Flowers The Resilience of CITES Regime and Diffused Normative Community; I.Sakaguchi Minerva's Allies: States, Secretariats, and Individuals in the Emergence of the Responsibility to Protect Norm; K.Coleman The Battle over the Peace-building Norm after the Iraq War; D.Higashi PART IV: THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP MODE Minervian Politics and International Chemicals Policy; H.Selin Enough Rope: the Role of Minervian Actors in Establishing the International Criminal Court; J.Lee The Last Call for the Minerva's Owl: The Politics of the 11th Hour in Negotiating the Nagoya Protocol at the CBD COP-10 Meeting; E.Feditchkina PART V: CONCLUSION The End of the Minervian Moment; Z.Laidi Successes and Limits of the Minervian Moment; Y.Tiberghien References Index