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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... creating a common , shared vision . They must also make sure that participants recognize their dependence on each other and on innovative collective thinking to solve the problem at hand . The leaders must take pains not to allow the ...
... creating a common , shared vision . They must also make sure that participants recognize their dependence on each other and on innovative collective thinking to solve the problem at hand . The leaders must take pains not to allow the ...
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... creating those gaps - and in resolving them . After all , public - policy - making is a difficult process that involves conflict and the reconciliation of divergent interests . Since the birth of the United Nations in 1945 the ...
... creating those gaps - and in resolving them . After all , public - policy - making is a difficult process that involves conflict and the reconciliation of divergent interests . Since the birth of the United Nations in 1945 the ...
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... creating new economic spaces that span multiple political geographies . Since the 1980s this emergence of transnational economic spaces has been largely driven by the orga- nizational logic of corporate industrial networks and their ...
... creating new economic spaces that span multiple political geographies . Since the 1980s this emergence of transnational economic spaces has been largely driven by the orga- nizational logic of corporate industrial networks and their ...
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... creating " superweeds " ; - to prevent the transfer of allergens and Public health and food safety carcinogens through genetic engineering ; The possibility of monopoly profits ; and Intellectual property rights to balance these against ...
... creating " superweeds " ; - to prevent the transfer of allergens and Public health and food safety carcinogens through genetic engineering ; The possibility of monopoly profits ; and Intellectual property rights to balance these against ...
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... Creating an institutional framework in which those interests can be adequately represented and integrated into public - policy - making defines the challenge that GPP networks are designed to address ( see Chapter 3 ) . This concern ...
... Creating an institutional framework in which those interests can be adequately represented and integrated into public - policy - making defines the challenge that GPP networks are designed to address ( see Chapter 3 ) . This concern ...
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