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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 31
Page xi
... already proved themselves to be effective , often remarkably so , in bringing together diverse and sometimes opposing groups to discuss common problems that no one of them can resolve by itself ; and in marshaling resources intellectual ...
... already proved themselves to be effective , often remarkably so , in bringing together diverse and sometimes opposing groups to discuss common problems that no one of them can resolve by itself ; and in marshaling resources intellectual ...
Page 2
... already has brought lasting and profound changes to the world we live in . For governments in particular , technological change has transformed the way in which information and knowledge are created , processed , and disseminated ...
... already has brought lasting and profound changes to the world we live in . For governments in particular , technological change has transformed the way in which information and knowledge are created , processed , and disseminated ...
Page 3
... already starting to happen . - Today's global environment demands creative institutional arrange- ments to allow governments , other organizations , and individuals to agree upon and solve emerging global problems , whose number and ...
... already starting to happen . - Today's global environment demands creative institutional arrange- ments to allow governments , other organizations , and individuals to agree upon and solve emerging global problems , whose number and ...
Page 4
... already as many as 50-60 GPP networks in existence , ranging in focus from crime and pollution to fisheries and public health . Their informal and often legally nonbinding character may partly explain why the story of GPP networks has ...
... already as many as 50-60 GPP networks in existence , ranging in focus from crime and pollution to fisheries and public health . Their informal and often legally nonbinding character may partly explain why the story of GPP networks has ...
Page 5
... already quite familiar and require no detailed elaboration , and so we focus on their features that are relevant to later discussion . The chapter then considers the implications of this transformation and concludes that two gaps ...
... already quite familiar and require no detailed elaboration , and so we focus on their features that are relevant to later discussion . The chapter then considers the implications of this transformation and concludes that two gaps ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
activities actors agencies approach business community capacity capacity-building CGIAR Chapter Chemical Weapons Convention child soldiers civil society coalitions complexity consultation coordination creating critical dams developing countries developing-country donors economic effective efforts ensure environmental example facilitate Forum funding global environment Global Environment Facility global governance Global Knowledge Partnership global network Global Public Policy goals GPP networks groups implementation important increasingly industry initiative institutions intergovernmental international organizations Internet involved knowledge landmines leadership learning legitimacy malaria markets mechanisms microcredit microlending Montreal Protocol multilateral negotiations network managers NGOs norms operational participants participatory gap partners partnership policymakers problem Project on Global Public Policy Networks public-policy-making role secretariat social social capital stakeholders standards-setting strategy strengthen structures success sustainable development technological change transnational Transparency International trisectoral networks UN's UNICEF United Nations Development vaccine Vision Project World Bank World Economic Forum