This book is the first systematic scientific study of global quasi-legislation. Taking public opinion and multilateral agreements as the international equivalent to national election and passing laws on the national scale, and extending nation-state concepts to a global society, it analyzes citizens' preferences and the state's willingness to enter into 120 multilateral treaties. After identifying the links as a first step toward conceptualizing quasi-legislative global politics, the book examines how each of the 193 states manifests quasi-legislative behavior by factor-analyzing six instrumental variables such as treaty participation index and six policy domains of multilateral treaties, including peace and trade. It then discusses global change between 1989 and 2008, and conceptually and empirically examines the three theories of global politics that originated during that period: the theory of power transition, theory of civilizational clash and theory of global legislative politics. Lastly, it proposes a theory of global legislative politics. Shedding fresh light on the transformative nature of multilateral treaties, this book attracts researchers and students in political philosophy, international law and international relations as well as practitioners and journalists.
Inoguchi and Le have developed a genuinely original perspective on world politics, one that opens up a new research agenda for thinking about state and global actors simultaneously.-- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
This is one of those books that warrant a global readership given its emphasis on the implied trust that we invest in public institutions as viewed from an interdisciplinary perspective. -- Richard J. Estes, Professor of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
This book is innovative and distinctive in carving out a new way to look at global legislative politics. I do not know of anything that compares in this interesting and novel niche of international relations analysis.-- William R. Thompson, Distinguished Professor and Rogers Chair of Political Science Emeritus, Indiana University

Provides insights into multilateral treaties formulated as global social contract and global quasi-legisalative behavior Puts multilateral treaties in context , through Rousseau and Locke Writ Global Presents evidence-based anatomy of multilateral treaties as the Theory of Global Legislative Politics

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Takashi Inoguchi is an award-winning prolific writer and educator on the topics of Japanese politics and foreign policy, East Asian international relations and Asian comparative politics, Dr. Inoguchi celebrates a career that has allowed him to impact his industry on the topics of quality of life in Asia, evidence-based typology of Asian society, and transnationalism and global politics as manifested in the form of multilateral treaties through his publication of more than 150 books (of which 110 are in Japanese and 40 are in English). His recent authored and co-authored publications include "Exit, Voice and Loyalty in Asia: Individual Choice under 32 Asian Societal Umbrellas," "Trust with Asian Characteristics: Interpersonal and Institutional," "The Development of Global Legislative Politics: Rousseau and Locke Writ Global", "Digitized Statecraft In Multilateral Treaty Participation: Global Quasi-Legislative Behavior of 193 Sovereign States", "Japanese Politics in Comparative Politics: From the East to the West, and Then Whither?", "Japan's International Relations at the Crossroads: Wars, Globalization and Japanese Theorizings in the Extended Twentieth Century" and contributed an essay to "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, Vol. 4." Currently, Dr. Inoguchi finds success as the editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, as the editor of The SAGE Handbook of Asian Foreign Policy, 2 vols., (2019), and as an eminent scholar-professor of political science at the Institute of Asian Cultures at J. F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, Japan. He is regarded within his industry for his previous work as a professor for the University of Tokyo, Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (assistant secretary general of the UN), chancellor and president of University Niigata Prefecture, professor of Chuo University, and associate professor at Sophia University. As an academic editor, he has been the founding editor of the Japanese Journal of Political Science, the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. As an academic editor of book series, he has been one of the co-editors along with G. John Ikenberry for "Asia Today" and the editor of "Trust: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", and the Editor-in-Chief for "Evidence- Based Approach to Peace and Conflict Studies." In addition to his academic work, Dr. Inoguchi is recognized for his past involvement in projects that directly impact his industry. He was president of the Japan Association of International Relations, counselor for the International Trade and Investment Foundation, counselor for the International Economic Exchange Foundation, committee member for the U.S. Social Science Research Council, member of the Japan-United States Educational Commission, member of the Japanese Government Legislative Council, distinguished visiting professor for the National University of Singapore, visiting professor for the SciencesPo in Paris, and visiting professor for the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. For his incredible work, Dr. Inoguchi was the recipient of numerous grants from the Ministry of Education and he was honored as a Fulbright visiting scholar by the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Further, he earned an International Communication and Research Excellence Award, a Suntory Academic Award, a Japan Association of Public Policy Best Book Award, and a Distinguished Research Fellow Award from the International Society for Quality of Life Studies. Dr. Inoguchi notes that the greatest honor of his life occurred successively when the International Society for the Quality of Life Studies established the "Takashi Inoguchi Endowed Track on Quality of Life and Well-Being in East Asia" award in his name, and when the World Association for Public Opinion Research conferred on him with "the Helen

Inhalt
Preface.- Introduction.- Part I Global Social Contract.- Part II Global Quasi-Legislative Behavior.- Part III Three Varieties of Global Politics after the Cold War.- Appendix.