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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... mechanisms for gathering and disseminating knowledge , and some GPP networks make this their principal activity . The information technology revolution allows all kinds of knowledge , technical and nontechnical , to be shared without ...
... mechanisms for gathering and disseminating knowledge , and some GPP networks make this their principal activity . The information technology revolution allows all kinds of knowledge , technical and nontechnical , to be shared without ...
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... mechanisms for traditional intergovernmen- tal treaties . The Global Environment Facility has increasingly turned to trisectoral networking to achieve its mission of funding and implementing worthy projects in the area of environmental ...
... mechanisms for traditional intergovernmen- tal treaties . The Global Environment Facility has increasingly turned to trisectoral networking to achieve its mission of funding and implementing worthy projects in the area of environmental ...
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... mechanisms . They can build on 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 ...
... mechanisms . They can build on 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 ...
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... mechanisms for the prioriti- zation and coordination of those nascent issues that call for UN involvement . It also needs to ensure that its own activities neither duplicate the work of other multilateral organizations nor work at cross ...
... mechanisms for the prioriti- zation and coordination of those nascent issues that call for UN involvement . It also needs to ensure that its own activities neither duplicate the work of other multilateral organizations nor work at cross ...
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... mechanism to rebuild its credibility and , indeed , the only way to achieve its increasingly complex missions with scarce resources in the 21st century . The organization's ability to effectively initiate , maintain , and participate in ...
... mechanism to rebuild its credibility and , indeed , the only way to achieve its increasingly complex missions with scarce resources in the 21st century . The organization's ability to effectively initiate , maintain , and participate in ...
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