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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... increasing competition , and encouraging the spread of capital , skills , and know - how worldwide , promises to raise standards of living in those countries that have embraced it . But the rapid dismantling of barriers to trade and ...
... increasing competition , and encouraging the spread of capital , skills , and know - how worldwide , promises to raise standards of living in those countries that have embraced it . But the rapid dismantling of barriers to trade and ...
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... increasingly turned to trisectoral networking to achieve its mission of funding and implementing worthy projects in the area of environmental protection . Much of what networks accomplish through these five functions can be thought of ...
... increasingly turned to trisectoral networking to achieve its mission of funding and implementing worthy projects in the area of environmental protection . Much of what networks accomplish through these five functions can be thought of ...
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... 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?
... 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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... increasingly involve forming loose and temporary global policy networks that cut across national , institutional and ... increasing its own effectiveness and credibility . In many ways , the future of GPP networks is the future of the ...
... increasingly involve forming loose and temporary global policy networks that cut across national , institutional and ... increasing its own effectiveness and credibility . In many ways , the future of GPP networks is the future of the ...
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... increasing difficulty , in some rare cases the United Nations can act as financier for operational programs . The United Nations needs to develop mechanisms for the prioriti- zation and coordination of those nascent issues that call for ...
... increasing difficulty , in some rare cases the United Nations can act as financier for operational programs . The United Nations needs to develop mechanisms for the prioriti- zation and coordination of those nascent issues that call for ...
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