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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... labour standards , to climate change as they arise . This report examines one such set of arrangements : global public - policy ( GPP ) networks . ― Having developed in the shadow of traditional multilateralism , GPP networks are ...
... labour standards , to climate change as they arise . This report examines one such set of arrangements : global public - policy ( GPP ) networks . ― Having developed in the shadow of traditional multilateralism , GPP networks are ...
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... labour . For many years this development was considered for the most part uncontroversial . But during the last decade , the dismantling of economic barriers has been met with growing apprehension , as transnational economic activity ...
... labour . For many years this development was considered for the most part uncontroversial . But during the last decade , the dismantling of economic barriers has been met with growing apprehension , as transnational economic activity ...
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... labour . Following the principles of liberal internationalism , states have deliberately deregulated and liberalized their domestic economies , opening them to international trade and capital flows , including foreign direct investment ...
... labour . Following the principles of liberal internationalism , states have deliberately deregulated and liberalized their domestic economies , opening them to international trade and capital flows , including foreign direct investment ...
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... labour in the carpet industry as a microcosm of a broader social - standards and human - rights agenda . In a similar manner , the Network on the Development of Guiding Principles for Displacement raised support for its program by using ...
... labour in the carpet industry as a microcosm of a broader social - standards and human - rights agenda . In a similar manner , the Network on the Development of Guiding Principles for Displacement raised support for its program by using ...
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... labour standards was launched at the national level . A third case , that of ISO 14000 , may not be an example of best - practice trisectoral standards - setting , but it provides valuable insight into this important function of ...
... labour standards was launched at the national level . A third case , that of ISO 14000 , may not be an example of best - practice trisectoral standards - setting , but it provides valuable insight into this important function of ...
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