MIKTA, Middle Powers, and New Dynamics of Global Governance: The G20’s Evolving Agenda

117 Pages·2015·0.88 MB·English

by  Mo Jongryn (eds.)

MIKTA, Middle Powers, and New Dynamics of
Global Governance
DOI: 10.1057/9781137506467.0001
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MIKTA, Middle
Powers, and New
Dynamics of Global
Governance: The G20’s
Evolving Agenda
Edited by
Mo Jongryn
Professor of International Political Economy,
Graduate School of International Studies,
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
DOI: 10.1057/9781137506467.0001
mikta, middle powers, and new dynamics of global governance
Copyright © Mo Jongryn, 2015.
Copyright © Th e Asan Institute for Policy Studies 2015
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Contents
List of Illustrations vi
Notes on Contributors vii
1 Introduction: G20 Middle Powers
(MIKTA) and Global Governance 1
M o Jongryn
2 Middle Powers and the Multilateral Pivot 13
Th omas Wright
3 G20 Middle Powers and Initiatives on
Development 32
A ndrew F. Cooper
4 Middle Power Cooperation for Climate
Change and Green Growth 47
P ark Siwon
5 Middle Power Cooperation and
Related Issues in the G20 69
C hoi Heenam
6 Middle Powers and the G20: Modest
Proposals for Cooperation 86
R ichard Gowan
Luncheon Keynote Speech: Korea’s Middle
Power Diplomacy: How Is It Pursued in the
G20 Framework? 98
Kim Sung-han
Appendix: 2013 Asan Global Governance
Conference: Program and List of Participants 102
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List of Illustrations
Figures
4.1 Negotiating groups in UNFCCC 50
4.2 Middle powers’ positions in negotiating
groups 54
Tables
4.1 National positions of five middle powers 53
5.1 Composition of the FSB plenary 81
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Notes on Contributors
Mo Jongryn (Editor) is Professor of International Political
Economy at the Graduate School of International Studies
at Yonsei University and Senior Research Fellow at the
Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Prior to joining Yonsei
in 1996, Mo was an assistant professor at the University of
Texas at Austin. He wrote, with Barry Weingast, Korean
Political and Economic Development: Crisis, Security and
Institutional Rebalancing (2013); with John Ikenberry, The
Rise of Korean Leadership: Emerging Powers and Liberal
International Order (2013); and edited Middle Powers and
G20 Governance (2013). He received his B.A. in Economics
from Cornell University, M.S. in Social Science from the
California Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in Political
Economics from Stanford University.
Andrew F. Cooper is Professor at the Balsillie School of
International Affairs and in the Department of Political
Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. He has been a
member of the Editorial Board of Foreign Policy Analysis,
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and the Canadian Journal
of Political Science. His specific areas of expertise are in
diplomacy, global governance, and informal institutions.
He was a Fulbright Research Chair at USC in 2009,
Fulbright Scholar in the Western Hemisphere Program
at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),
Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC (2000). He
is the author/co-author of nine books (most recently the
G20 volume in Routledge’s Global Institutions series) and
editor/co-editor of 21 collections, including the Oxford
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Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (2013). His scholarly publications have
appeared in many media such as International Organization, International
Affairs, World Development. Holding a D.Phil. from Oxford University,
he has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, The Australian
National University, and Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
Richard Gowan is Associate Director for Crisis Diplomacy and
Peace Operations at New York University’s Center on International
Cooperation. He is also a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council
on Foreign Relations. He has written extensively on conflict prevention,
United Nations peacekeeping operations, and European crisis manage-
ment as well as the Security Council and the politics of human rights
in the UN system. He currently edits the Annual Review of Global Peace
Operations, which he helped design and launch in 2005–2006.
Choi Heenam is Director General of the International Financial Policy
Bureau at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. Previously, he has served
as IMF Alternate Executive Director (2011) and as Director General
of Policy Strategy Bureau at the Presidential Committee for the G20
Summit (2010). He also served in various positions at the Ministry of
Strategy and Finance since 1986. From 2007 to 2008, he was a director
of the International Financial Policy Division, dealing with international
financial markets through the issuance and the management of the
credit rating of ROK bonds. From 2005 to 2007, he was a director of
the Foreign Exchange Market Division, monitoring the FX market and
managing official reserves and the FX Stabilization Fund. He also served
as a director of the Policy Planning Division (2004–2005), developing
economic policies, the Industry Division (2003–2004), and coordinat-
ing industrial, SME, FDI, and agricultural policies. Choi holds a B.A. in
Economics, an MBA in Finance from Hanyang University in Korea, and
a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.
Park Siwon is Professor of the Law School of Kangwon National
University. She had served as the Legal Counsel at the Global Green
Growth Institute from 2010 to 2011 and was the associate researcher at
the Korea Environment Institute from 2009 to 2012. Her major interests
lie in international environment law, comparative environment law,
and climate change and law. She has recently published “The Power of
Presidency in UN Climate Change Negotiations: Comparison between
Denmark and Mexico.” She received her B.A. in Political Science from
Yonsei University, M.A. in International Cooperation from the Graduate
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Notes on Contributors ix
School of International Studies of Yonsei University, and J.D. from Lewis
and Clark Law School.
Kim Sung-han is Professor of the Graduate School of International
Studies of Korea University. He served as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
and Trade from 2012 to 2013. His academic interests range from the
Korea–US relations to international security policies. He was a member
of the Presidential Commission for National Security Review and the
Presidential Commission for Defense Reform. He received a Ph.D. in
Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Thomas Wright is Fellow at the Brookings Institution in the Managing
Global Order project. Previously, he was executive director of studies at
the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a lecturer at the Harris School
of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and senior researcher for
the Princeton Project on National Security. His writings have appeared
in a number of international newspapers and media outlets, such as the
American Political Science Review and Foreign Affairs. His current projects
include the future of US alliances and strategic partnerships, the geopo-
litical consequences of the Euro crisis, US relations with rising powers,
and multilateral diplomacy. He has also held a pre-doctoral fellowship
at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs and a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University. Wright
has a B.A. and an M.A. from University College Dublin, an M.Phil. from
Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University.
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