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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... regional governments ; transnational corpora- tions and other businesses and their associations ; and what has come to be called civil society . They thus cut cleanly across the fault lines between various sectors , existing ...
... regional governments ; transnational corpora- tions and other businesses and their associations ; and what has come to be called civil society . They thus cut cleanly across the fault lines between various sectors , existing ...
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... Forum on Forests ) will have to strengthen both the trisectoral dimension and the link back to initiatives at the regional and local levels . forests case discussed in Box 3 , or about public. A CHANGING EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT tet 19.
... Forum on Forests ) will have to strengthen both the trisectoral dimension and the link back to initiatives at the regional and local levels . forests case discussed in Box 3 , or about public. A CHANGING EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT tet 19.
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... regional levels . Complementarity of resources is the key to the success of networks . Networks do not merely aggregate resources , but are structured to take advantage of the fact that each participating sector brings different ...
... regional levels . Complementarity of resources is the key to the success of networks . Networks do not merely aggregate resources , but are structured to take advantage of the fact that each participating sector brings different ...
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... regional conferences and a core group of governments to raise the issue of children in the military on the list of global priorities . As in the landmines case , active engagement with the media has been important , as has the ...
... regional conferences and a core group of governments to raise the issue of children in the military on the list of global priorities . As in the landmines case , active engagement with the media has been important , as has the ...
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... regional level ; It has initiated 10 case studies , designed to collect data relevant to their country settings in Brazil , China , India , Norway , Pakistan , Thailand , Turkey , the United States , Zambia , and Zimbabwe ; It has ...
... regional level ; It has initiated 10 case studies , designed to collect data relevant to their country settings in Brazil , China , India , Norway , Pakistan , Thailand , Turkey , the United States , Zambia , and Zimbabwe ; It has ...
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