Critical Choices: The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global GovernanceWolfgang H. Reinicke, Francis Mading Deng, Jan Martin Witte, International Development Research Centre (Canada) IDRC, 2000 - 141 pages The new global environment requires new approaches, new ideas and innovative tools to address new challenges in areas as different as weapons control, climate change, genetic engineering, and labor standards. Critical Choices looks at one such tool: global public policy networks. In these networks, governments, international organizations, the corporate sector and civil society join together to achieve what none can accomplish on its own. The authors explore both the promises and the limitations of this new form of global cooperation. They discuss how such networks might contribute to better manage the risks and make use of the opportunities that globalization presents. Finally, they offer provocative advice and solid recommendations on how the United Nations can foster such networks in the years ahead. |
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... agenda 31 Developing and disseminating knowledge Negotiating and setting standards and regulations Making and deepening markets 36 47 52 Implementing ideas and decisions 57 Closing the participatory gap . 61 Chapter 4. Network ...
... agenda 31 Developing and disseminating knowledge Negotiating and setting standards and regulations Making and deepening markets 36 47 52 Implementing ideas and decisions 57 Closing the participatory gap . 61 Chapter 4. Network ...
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... agenda or raising the prominence of issues that have been neglected . All such networks do this to some degree , but one type of network - what has been called a transnational advocacy network — makes global consciousness - raising its ...
... agenda or raising the prominence of issues that have been neglected . All such networks do this to some degree , but one type of network - what has been called a transnational advocacy network — makes global consciousness - raising its ...
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... agenda . Mobilizing the skills and other resources of diverse global actors , therefore , may increasingly involve forming loose and temporary global policy networks xviii **** EXECUTIVE SUMMARY What role for the United Nations?
... agenda . Mobilizing the skills and other resources of diverse global actors , therefore , may increasingly involve forming loose and temporary global policy networks xviii **** EXECUTIVE SUMMARY What role for the United Nations?
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... to its members the challenges that face them at the dawning of the new millennium and offer them an achievable agenda for meeting those challenges . Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION At the beginning of the 21st century xxii *** EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.
... to its members the challenges that face them at the dawning of the new millennium and offer them an achievable agenda for meeting those challenges . Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION At the beginning of the 21st century xxii *** EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.
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... agenda and keeping them there . Transnational corporations , likewise , are increasingly important players and have gained political leverage relative to states and international organizations . Yet , existing institutional processes ...
... agenda and keeping them there . Transnational corporations , likewise , are increasingly important players and have gained political leverage relative to states and international organizations . Yet , existing institutional processes ...
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