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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... successful media campaign to raise awareness of the problem and move toward its resolution . GPP networks facilitate the negotiating and setting of global standards . This is happening in areas as diverse as financial regulation and ...
... successful media campaign to raise awareness of the problem and move toward its resolution . GPP networks facilitate the negotiating and setting of global standards . This is happening in areas as diverse as financial regulation and ...
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... successful when they link participants with access to various knowledge bases and when all participants are willing to rethink their own ideas and practices to learn and relearn as well as to teach . One of the oldest global networks ...
... successful when they link participants with access to various knowledge bases and when all participants are willing to rethink their own ideas and practices to learn and relearn as well as to teach . One of the oldest global networks ...
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... successes in the fight against official corruption but also built coalitions of trust between very diverse actors in this sensitive issue area . - THE CARE AND TENDING OF NETWORKS This description of GPP networks may foster the ...
... successes in the fight against official corruption but also built coalitions of trust between very diverse actors in this sensitive issue area . - THE CARE AND TENDING OF NETWORKS This description of GPP networks may foster the ...
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... successful network management , including implementa- tion , requires . In addition , a clearinghouse could be set up to act as an information hub for network activities , both within the United Nations and beyond . For the United ...
... successful network management , including implementa- tion , requires . In addition , a clearinghouse could be set up to act as an information hub for network activities , both within the United Nations and beyond . For the United ...
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... success in GPP networks , and thus in global governance at large , will be its ability to define its role care- fully and selectively . Such a process of prioritization will in part be driven by external forces , in particular by the ...
... success in GPP networks , and thus in global governance at large , will be its ability to define its role care- fully and selectively . Such a process of prioritization will in part be driven by external forces , in particular by the ...
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