Preface Notes on the Contributors List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Editor's Introduction; M.G.Schechter PART I: THE EVOLVING GLOBAL STRUCTURE AND THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM International Institutions: Obstacles, Agents or Conduits of Global Structural Change?; M. G.Schechter United Nations Reform: A Strategy of Avoidance; M-C. Smouts The United Nations and the Crossroads of Reform; A. Morales Northern Perspectives for Peace and Security Functions of the United Nations; T.Uchida PART II: EVOLVING GLOBAL STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION Structural Changes in Multilateralism: The G-7 Nexus and the Global Crisis; S. Gill Implications of the Evolving Global Structure for the UN System: a View from the South; J. Zoninsein PART III: POST-HEGEMONIC MULTILATERALISM AND BEYOND Expanding the Limits of Imagination: Human Rights from a Participatory Approach to New Multilateralism; A.A. An-Na'im Indigenous People and Developments in International Law: Toward Change through Multilateralism and the Modern Human Rights Frame AIDS and Multilateral Governance; P. Soderh�lm Gender, Social Movements, and Multilateralism: A Case Study of Women's Organizing in Russia; E. Ershova, L. Racioppi and K. O'Sullivan See Index