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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... Social capital .. .137 Publications by the staff of the UN Vision Project on Global Public Policy Networks ... Appendix 5. The Authors , the Publisher , and the Sponsor .. 138 .139 Foreword Our world is getting smaller . Political and ...
... Social capital .. .137 Publications by the staff of the UN Vision Project on Global Public Policy Networks ... Appendix 5. The Authors , the Publisher , and the Sponsor .. 138 .139 Foreword Our world is getting smaller . Political and ...
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... social , political , and economic - today demands commensurate changes in our institutions of global governance , not least in the institution that lies at the core of the international system , the United Nations . The organization ...
... social , political , and economic - today demands commensurate changes in our institutions of global governance , not least in the institution that lies at the core of the international system , the United Nations . The organization ...
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... social issues and interactions . The second broad force driving change is the technological revolution , and in particular the revolution in information technology . Technological change , too , has had immensely beneficial effects on ...
... social issues and interactions . The second broad force driving change is the technological revolution , and in particular the revolution in information technology . Technological change , too , has had immensely beneficial effects on ...
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... social entrepre- neurship , flexibility , imagination , and the ability to learn on the fly . Perhaps most important , those who would presume to manage a network must first understand that it is seldom they , the managers , who will ...
... social entrepre- neurship , flexibility , imagination , and the ability to learn on the fly . Perhaps most important , those who would presume to manage a network must first understand that it is seldom they , the managers , who will ...
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... social entrepreneurs , using the skilled leadership of top UN officials but also focusing on inclusion , effectiveness , and results at the operational level ; → UN agencies can act as norm entrepreneurs in such areas as sus- tainable ...
... social entrepreneurs , using the skilled leadership of top UN officials but also focusing on inclusion , effectiveness , and results at the operational level ; → UN agencies can act as norm entrepreneurs in such areas as sus- tainable ...
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