Critical choices the United Nations, networks, and the future of global governance
The world that we live in today is changing dramatically. Economic and political liberalization, together with accelerating technological change, are driving the extraordinary process we know as ''globalization.'' This new global environment requires new approaches, new ideas, an...
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Ottawa :
International Development Research Centre
c2000.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Executive Summary
- Origins and objectives
- A range of activities
- The care and tending of networks
- What role for the United Nations?
- Conclusions
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. A Changing External Environment
- Economic and political liberalization
- Technological change
- The multidimensional impacts of liberalization and technological change
- Complexity and the risks of a partial view
- The participatory gap
- States, international organizations, and the imperative of change
- Chapter 3. What Do Networks Do?
- A primer on networks
- Placing issues on the global agenda
- Negotiating and setting standards and regulations
- Developing and disseminating knowledge
- Making and deepening markets
- Implementing ideas and decisions
- Closing the participatory gap
- Chapter 4. Network Management
- Getting the network off the ground
- Balancing adequate consultation and goal delivery
- Securing sustainable funding
- Maintaining the "structure" in structured informality
- Finding allies outside one's sector
- Tackling the dual challenge of inclusion
- Chapter 5. Networks and the United Nations
- From vision to reality: a three-track approach
- Roles for the United Nations in GPP networks
- Making the United Nations fit for GPP networks
- Chapter 6. Conclusion
- Appendix 1. Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Appendix 2. Case Studies of the UN Vision Project on Global Public Policy Networks
- Appendix 3. Workshop Participants
- Appendix 4. Bibliography
- Network theory, collaboration, and partnership
- International organizations, change, and learning
- Management and networks
- Knowledge management
- Civil society and governance
- The private sector and transnational relations
- Social capital.
- Publications by the staff of the UN Vision Project on Global Public Policy Networks
- Appendix 5. The Authors, the Publisher, and the Sponsor.
