CLAUDE AKE At the time of his death in November 1996, a Visiting Professor of Political Science, Yale UniversityWALDEN BELLO Co-director of Focus on the Global South at Chulalongkorn University in BangkokRICHARD A. FALK Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University PETER HARRIES-JONES Professor of Anthropology at York University in TorontoTARIQ OSMAN HYDER Pakistan's Ambassador to Ashgabat in TurkmenistanJAVIER M. IGUIÑIZ-ECHIVERRIA Professor of Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of PeruW. ANY KNIGHT Teaches International Relations at Bishop's UniversityABRAHAM ROTSTEIN Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of TorontoKUMAR RUPESINGHE Secretary General of International Alert, an international non-governmental organization PETER TIMMERMAN Research Associate of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IES), University of TorontoRAIMO VÄYRYNEN Professor of Government and International Studies

• Preface List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Editor's Introduction; M-G. Schechter PART I: SECURITY ISSUES From Civil War to Civil Peace: Multi-track Solutions to Armed Conflict; K. Rupesinghe Multilateral Security: Common, Cooperative or Collective?; R. V�ynen PART II: ECONOMY AND ECOLOGY Back to Heterodox Questions: Progress with Regress Through Competition; J. Igui�Echeverria A Signal Failure: Ecology and Economy After the Earth Summit; P. Harries-Jones, A. Rotstein and P. Timmerman Environmental Rights: Multilateralism, Morality and the Ecology; T. Hyder PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATION The Quest for Human Rights in an Era of Globalization; R. Falk Globalization, Multilateralism and the Shrinking Democratic Space; C. Ake High-Speed Growth, Crisis, and Opportunity in East Asia; W. Bello PART IV: REPRESENTATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY Engineering Space in Global Governance: The Emergence of Civil Society in Evolving 'New' Multilateralism; W. Knight Multilateralism From Below: A Prerequisite for Global Governance; M. Smouts Index