The End of History and the Last Man

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

The emergence of global history has been one of the more notable features of academic history over the past three decades. Although historians of disease were among the pioneers of one of its earlier incarnations—world history—the recent “global turn” has made relatively little impact on histories of health, disease, and medicine. Most continue to be framed by familiar entities such as the colony or nation-state or are confined to particular medical “traditions.” This article aims to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective. Its purpose is not to replace other ways of seeing or to write a new “grand narrative” but to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned. Moving on from an analysis of earlier periods of integration, the article offers some reflections on our own era of globalization and on the emerging field of global health.

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A Global Perspective: Reframing the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease.

Justice and the Politics of Difference

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Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Leadership, Followership, and Middle Powers in International Politics: A Reappraisal 2. Changing with the International Agenda: State Reorganization and Middle Power Diplomacy 3. The Multilateral Economic Agenda: The Cairns Group and the Uruguay Round 4. The Regional Economic Agenda: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and North American Free Trade 5. The Security Agenda: Coalition-building and the Gulf Conflict 6. Addressing the Widening Global Agenda: Australian and Canadian Perspectives Conclusion Notes References Index

Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order

PART I: SETTING THE SCENE PART II: THE MAIN ACTORS PART III: MODES OF PRACTICE PART IV: TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS PART V: ISSUE AREAS PART VI: CASE STUDIES

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Perhaps the key question of debate among neorealist scholars of international political economy concerns the manner in which cooperation may or may not be secured in the global economic order "after hegemony," a question posed by Robert Keohane. A second broad question of interest to scholars of international politics concerns the manner in which weaker states attempt to influence stronger ones. A conflation of these two questions could cause scholars and practitioners alike to pay closer attention than they have in the past to coalitions of the weak as vehicles for cooperation and regime building in the global political economy.This article offers a case study of one recent exercise in coalition building as an attempt to foster cooperation in a "nonhegemonic" environment. Specifically, it examines the role of the Cairns Group of Fair Trading Nations in its attempts to foster reform in global agricultural trade within the current Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. The Cairns Group is shown to be an atypical, single-issue driven, transregional coalition. Led by Australia, the Group's actions represent an interesting exercise in "middle power" politics in a global economic order whose decisionmaking processes are increasingly more fragmented and complex and whose major actors need coaxing toward processes of cooperative economic management.

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Middle power leadership and coalition building: Australia, the Cairns Group, and the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations

Arguably the most important catalytic effect of the ‘Great Recession’ of 2008–2009 has been the creation of the G20 at the leaders’ level. As a form of improvised diplomacy the G20 merits extensive scrutiny, revealing as it does the degree of adaptation possible in the international system. The G20 links a significant ideational component, a new dynamic between established and emerging powers, and a complex set of issues. The innovative quality of the G20, however, rests on two very distinct strands of activity and tests of accomplishments. The G20 can be viewed as a ‘recession-buster’ with a vital but momentary purpose. Alternatively, the G20 can be taken to be an embedded ‘steering committee’ for the world. Both of these interpretations have validity. The crisis committee scenario highlights a technical regulatory-driven agenda. The steering committee scenario by way of contrast showcases the connection between the G20 and a new type of global settlement. Passing the test as a crisis committee hinges on very specific deliverables. Passing the test as a steering committee is even more demanding as any move toward a new state-specific ‘concert’ is highly contested. This article examines these debates, locating the G20 in a historical/comparative perspective and in terms of the wider context of shifting power structure at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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Acknowledgements - List of Contributors - Niche Diplomacy: A Conceptual Overview Andrew Cooper - Issues, Institutions and Middle-Power Diplomacy: Action and Agendas in the Post-Cold War Era Richard Higgott - Middle Powers as Managers: International Mediation Within, Across and Outside Institutions Alan K. Henrikson - Canada as a Middle Power: The Case of Peacekeeping Geoffrey Hayes - Between Realism and 'Crusader Diplomacy': The Norweigan Channel to Jericho Oyvind Osterund - Addressing Apartheid: Lessons from Australian, Canadian and Swedish Policies in Southern Africa David R. Black - Finding Your Niche: Australia and the Trials of Middle-Powerdom Brian Hocking - Mahathir's Malaysia: An Emerging Middle Power? Kim Richard Nossal and Richard Stubbs - Middle Powers and Regionalism in the Americas: The Cases of Argentina and Mexico Louis Belanger and Gordon Mace - Turkey: A Middle Power in the New Order Meltem MYftYler and MYberra YYksel - South Africa: Understanding the Upstairs and the Downstairs Peter Vale - Index

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Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order

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Middle power leadership and coalition building: Australia, the Cairns Group, and the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations

The G20 as an improvised crisis committee and/or a contested ‘steering committee’ for the world

Niche diplomacy : middle powers after the Cold War