Modular Multilateralism

Mod-u-lar Mul-ti-lat-er-al-ism noun (1991): International economic decision-making model; multilateral in that it brings in many nations, North & South, to the bargaining table at the same time; modular in that the actors at the table shift according to the issue & over time. Bipolarity's demise makes more room for North-South cooperation as previously unlikely alliances join to forge new solutions of mutual benefit to common problems. The authors present a decision-making model that cuts across the old North-South divide. It is applied to four North-South case studies-development strategies, finance, trade, & the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative-to show how the concept of modular groupings has already been used to tackle certain issues & how policy could be better organized to take advantage of its workings.Feinberg, Richard E. is the author of 'Modular Multilateralism', published 1991 under ISBN 9781565170001 and ISBN 1565170008.