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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... existing knowledge , the authors of Critical Choices explore both the promise and the limits of GPP networks . They present hands - on practical advice on the design , implementation , and promotion of GPP networks and explore how this ...
... existing knowledge , the authors of Critical Choices explore both the promise and the limits of GPP networks . They present hands - on practical advice on the design , implementation , and promotion of GPP networks and explore how this ...
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... existing organizations , and sovereign territories . Another commonality is that all these networks have made intense and often ingenious use of the new information technologies that for several decades have been transforming our ...
... existing organizations , and sovereign territories . Another commonality is that all these networks have made intense and often ingenious use of the new information technologies that for several decades have been transforming our ...
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... existing institutions , keeping the network's own secretariat to a minimum . Built - in review processes , internal and external , can also help prevent ossification of the network's structures , practices , and people . Finding allies ...
... existing institutions , keeping the network's own secretariat to a minimum . Built - in review processes , internal and external , can also help prevent ossification of the network's structures , practices , and people . Finding allies ...
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... existing initiatives and approaches , working from the bottom up . Or they can do the opposite , adapting global poli- cies to fit local realities . Finally , networks can help build up the limited financial and organizational capacity ...
... existing initiatives and approaches , working from the bottom up . Or they can do the opposite , adapting global poli- cies to fit local realities . Finally , networks can help build up the limited financial and organizational capacity ...
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... existing networks by focusing on implementation and learning processes ; → Build implementation networks that will help to revitalize weak or weakening conventions that are important to the UN's mission ; and → Launch new networks ...
... existing networks by focusing on implementation and learning processes ; → Build implementation networks that will help to revitalize weak or weakening conventions that are important to the UN's mission ; and → Launch new networks ...
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