This book addresses the future of the multilateral system by analyzing its main building blocs of international and regional organizations.

Edited by Madeleine O. Hosli; Taylor Garrett; Sonja Niedecken and Nicolas Verbeek

Foreword by Barbara Pesce-Monteiro

Foreword by Bob Reinalda

Introduction, Madeleine O. Hosli

Part I: International Organisations

Chapter 2. The United Nations and Challenges to Multilateralism, Madeleine O. Hosli

Chapter 3. UNICEF and UN WOMEN in the Post-COVID-19 Era: How the Pandemic is Expected to Reshape the Humanitarian Agenda, Dimitra Protopsalti

Chapter 4. The World Health Organization Under COVID-19: Behind the Crisis, Yue Han

Chapter 5. The Multilateral Trading System in a Changing World: The WTO and Current Threats Challenging its Survival, Morgane B. De Clercq

Chapter 6. The Future of IMF and World Bank: New Dynamics in Times of COVID-19 Crisis, 2020, Nicolas Verbeek

Part II: Regional Organisations and Institutions

Chapter 7. The African Union and Multilateralism, Nandi Makubalo

Chapter 8. European External Action and Multilateralism, Sonja Niedecken

Chapter 9. The European Union and the Challenges to Internal Multilateralism: A Perspective on European Macroeconomic Governance and the COVID-19 Crisis, Carolina Alice D'Ambrosio

Chapter 10. ASEAN and the Challenges to its Legitimacy, Rizwan Togoo

Chapter 11. Mercosur: Breaking the Stalemate in a Post-COVID-19 World, Amber Scheele

Chapter 12. China's AIIB in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Challenging the World's Financial Architecture, Taylor A. Garrett

Part III: Multilateral Organisations and Regimes

Chapter 13. International Development Cooperation, Gulnara Abbas

Chapter 14. Multilateral Cooperation in International Tax Law, Juliana Cubillos, Frederik Heitmüller and Irma Mosquera Valderrama

Chapter 15. The UN Climate Regime: Multilateralism, Polycentricity, and Divergent Energy Futures, Susann Handke

Conclusion, Morgane B. De Clercq and Susann Handke