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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... norm entrepreneurs in such areas as sus- tainable human development , human rights , and disarmament ; → UN agencies can act as multilevel network managers by coordi- nating program activities or developing strategies for interacting ...
... norm entrepreneurs in such areas as sus- tainable human development , human rights , and disarmament ; → UN agencies can act as multilevel network managers by coordi- nating program activities or developing strategies for interacting ...
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... norms and values in 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 ...
... norms and values in 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 ...
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... norms and values . It is possible to focus too narrowly on the theoretical issue of determining which goods are global public goods and thus within the domain of governments to provide . But such a focus overlooks the importance of the ...
... norms and values . It is possible to focus too narrowly on the theoretical issue of determining which goods are global public goods and thus within the domain of governments to provide . But such a focus overlooks the importance of the ...
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... norms and values and - to act as " norm entrepreneurs " ( see Chapter 5 ) may pressure those public institutions to react , rather than encouraging them to act proactively . STATES , INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS , AND THE IMPERATIVE OF ...
... norms and values and - to act as " norm entrepreneurs " ( see Chapter 5 ) may pressure those public institutions to react , rather than encouraging them to act proactively . STATES , INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS , AND THE IMPERATIVE OF ...
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... norms that had already been approved by states earlier in the process . As Simon Bagshaw writes in his case study , the " greater the number of co - sponsors and the broader the geo- graphical representation , the politically less ...
... norms that had already been approved by states earlier in the process . As Simon Bagshaw writes in his case study , the " greater the number of co - sponsors and the broader the geo- graphical representation , the politically less ...
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