- 60th Annual DPI/NGO Final Declaration. Climate change threats- an NGO Framework for Action
The 60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference has taken place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 5 to 7 September 2007. More than 2,000 representatives of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) from over 80 countries have attended roundtables, panels and ...
- A Fair Deal for the World
Publsihed at : The New York Review of Books. VOl. 49, number 9, may 23,2002
The author of Globalization and Its Discontents makes a review of the book "On Globalization" by George Soros.
- A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All
The Report of the World Commission is a positive but critical message for changing the current path of globalization. It says that the potentials of globalization, in terms of growing connectivity and productive capacity, are immense. However, current syst ...
- A practical proposal for a Creating a Global Parliament
Andrew Strauss is a Professor of International Law at Widener Unviersity School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware. His paper proposes to respond to the crisis of democratic legitimacy witht he creation of a Global Parliamentary Assembly, a polularly elected w ...
- An Open Letter on Women & UN Reform to the Secretary General and Member States
The pattern of publicly adopted commitments and statements followed by lack of implementation sets a disheartening precedent which retards the work and reputation of the United Nations and impedes the urgently-needed progress of gender equality worldwide. ...
- Assessing the United Nations after the Lebanon war of 2006
Richard Falk's article about the Lebanon war on the summer of 2006. He gives some recomendations to the UN in order to stabilize the situation in this conflictive Middle East country.
- Barack Obama's historic victory
Richard Falk's article analizing the challenges that Barack Obama will face during his term.
- Bretton Woods Institutions : Evolution, Reform and Change
Reforming the Bretton Woods Institutions will be a critical part of any effort to reform global economic governance as we enter the new millenium.
The acute financial crisis that threatens the middle-income countries and the chronic development crisis that ...
- Capital Flows to Developing Countries of the International Financial System
This study has been prepared within the UNU/WIDER project on new Roles and Functions for the United Nations and the Bretton Woods Institutions, which is directed by Professor Deepak Nayyar, Unviersity of Delhi.
The paper begins with surveys of major featur ...
- Club of Athens Global Governance Group, The
Is globalisation the best thing that has happened to humankind or a major threat to society? Why is the antiglobalisation movement growing both in density and intensity? Is the contemporary system of international governance up to the challenge of globalis ...
- Commission on Global Governance
It focuses on global governance. It concludes by urging the international community to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations by beginning a determined process of rethinking and reform.
- Currency Transaction Tax, The. A bold idea for financing development
Global problems require bold solutions and the Currency Transaction Tax (CTT) is one such innovative idea. It proposes a small levy on foreign exchange transactions, using the money raised to finance development projects for the global public good.
- Declaration of Latin American and Caribbean feminists regarding UN and a possible new agency for women
Declaration that seeks to show the feminist articulations, networks and campaigns of Latin America and the Caribbean that gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay, on the 29th, 30th and 31st of March 2007, with the aim to debate on th eUn reform and a possible new ...
- Democratizing Global Governance
Is globalization beyond human control? In this thought-provoking text, the myths and mantras of this apparently irresistible force are challenged and dissembled. By examining a number of fundamental questions, the contributors put forward a radical reform ...
- Designing a New Architecture for Global Environmental Governance
The process of globalisation in the last decade has pointed to the increasing interdependance of the economies of the world and citizens of all nations. It has led to a growing recognition that countries need to find ways to work toghether to tackle shared ...
- Economía de guerra
Federico Mayor Zaragoza article, published in El País. He analizes the international system and its economic framework.
- En tiempos de crisis soluciones para la gente
In times of crisis, global solutions are required in order to mitigate the effects that it has over the people.
- Enhancing the efficiency of the Conference follow up process through the lens of strengthening the involvement of civil society
Report enhancing the efficiency of the ECOSOC conference follow up process through the lens of strengthening the involvement of civil society, and on the follow up to the World Summit on the Information Society.
- Ensuring that international economic and social institutions become integrated with and accountable to the UN
In spite of the enormeous power which the Bank, the IMF and the WTO wield around the world they are not answerable to anybody except their shareholders. The major sharehoders are the governments of the seven richest industrialised countries. This lack of i ...
- Existing System and Missing Institutions, The
In : Nayyar, D. (ed.) (2002) Governing Globalization: Issues and Institutions. Chapter 14.
- For a Strong and Democratic United Nations
This policy paper attempts to reflect views shared broadly by the developing countries regarding institutional reform of the United Nations, and to provide elements for a conceptual framework on the subject. It is intended to widen the on-going debate, whi ...
- Gaza: An Israeli Call for Urgent Action
Document signed by several Israelian organizations asking to stop the Gaza Strip blockade.
- Gender Equality Arquitecture and UN reforms
This paper briefly outlines the successes and failures of the current UN system in adressing gender equality and women's rights, and puts forth several principles and characteristics that are critical to reforming the gender equality architecture in order ...
- Global Democracy Initiatives: The Art of Possible
Democracy is an open-ended process that is produced by actors but not under the circumstances of their own making. Global Democracy Initiatives examines the major global democracy initiatives: how are they justified; who supports them; are they politically ...
- Global democratic governance and the reform of International Institutions
Paper centered on the Reform of the International Institutions, UN, IFI's and WTO.
- Global Economic and Social Governance and the Role of the UN : Recommendations for the Financing for Development Conference
The so-called "systemic issues" do not have as much to do with the substance of global policies as with the process for making them. Along these lines, an examination of the relationship between the main trade, financial and monetary policy-making organiza ...
- Global Governance Initiative : An initiative to improve the state of the world
The World Economic Forum has launched the Global Governance Initiative to monitor progress in the global effort to implement the ambitious social, economic and environmental goals set forth in the United Nations Millennium Declaration and other documents. ...
- Globalization and Governance
The following remarks were made by Gordon Smith to the 2001 annual meeting of the Trilateral Commission in London. Gordon Smith is Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and former Canadian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affair ...
- Globalization's Democratic Deficit : How to Make International Institutions More Accountable
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., is Dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. This article draws on his address to the March 2001 meeting of the Trilateral Commission in London and on his work with Robert O. Keohane in the recent book Governance in a G ...
- Globalization, Power and Authority
The basic argument of this paper is that the globalization perspective in all of its variations exaggerates the amount of change in the contemporary global system.
- Governance without governments
The world is changing in fundamental ways. Increasingly we can have "governance" in the international arena without the only actors being governments and the international organizations they create.
- Governing Globalization : Issues and Institutions
The forces of globalization are causing rapid changes in trade and financial flows, and the movement of people across the world has become a major issue in need of urgent action. National economies have become closely interrelated, particularly through the ...
- Helsinki process on global governance
This paper is in response to a request to provide ideas, comments and suggestions on the Helsinki process on Global Governance and how it should proceed. I was involved in preliminary discussions on the Helsinki Process during my visit to Helsinki in May 2 ...
- Informal Ad Hoc groupings of States and the Workings of the United Nations
This paper examines the emergence of informal ad hoc groupings in the UN context and their proliferation in the post-Cold War era, especially taking into account the role of Groups of Friends of the Secretary-General and Contact Groups. It also analyzes th ...
- Initiatives for Global Democratization
NIGD and the Finnish Ministry for Foreing Affairs launched the North-South Dialogues- process in spring 2001. The process was set to develop new ideas about democratizing globalization and to evaluate these ideas and a number of other prominent political i ...
- It's democracy, stupid
None of the problems thrown-up by globalisation: the strong getting stronger and exploiting the weak who grow weaker; an unpredictable and turbulent global economy, and an increasingly life threatening environmental issues - can be effectively tackled with ...
- Le temps d'agir
Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article published in El País in December 2007.
- Logic of Globalisation: Tensions and Governability
After two decades of implementation of deep economic reforms such as the opening of the economy and the economic integration within a "global economy", a significant group of nations - specially those at the periphery of capitalism - has shown poor per cap ...
- Marlborough House Statement on Reform of International Institutions
Commonwealth Heads of Government met a summit to talk on the reform of international institutions as World Bank, IMF and UN and their effective implementation.
The Commonwealth leaders conveyed their intention to redefine the purposes and governance of Bre ...
- Meeting the Challenges of UN Reform : A South Perspective
This South Centre Analytical Note provides a brief background of UN reform since the start of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's tenure in 1997. It outlines tension that underscore the UN reform process, highlinghts current UN Reforms and offers developping ...
- New capitalism?
Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
- Nou capitalisme?
Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
- Open Letter to John Ruggie
Open Letter to Mr. John Ruggie UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights asking him for a better protection of Human Rights.
- Open letter to the Security-Council and General Assembly members on the UNSG selection process
During the last year, civil society groups that are strongly committed to upholding the UN Charter and its principles have been working together to develop a basic set of proposals on improving the selection process. Having taken into account a broad range ...
- Our Global Neighbourhood
As we approach tne next century, a new world is taking shape. This world presents new dangers, new problems, and new challenges. BUt it also offers the real hope of creating a safer and more equitable era. The future is now in our hands.
This bool points ...
- Peace Bureau deplores military spending rise, urges investments to counter poverty and climate change
The International Peace Bureau has expressed profound concern at the announcement yesterday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute at the launch of its annual Yearbook that world military expenditures in 2006 reached a new high of $1204 bi ...
- Proposal to reform the system of international institutions. Future scenarios
Paper drafted by the Ubuntu forum ad hoc secretariat and John Foster on the occasion of the Seminar on future scenarios for the reform of the System of International Institutions which took place in Barcelona on 12 and 13 March 2004, under the framework of ...
- Proposals for coherence. Financing for development
CIDSE document related to the International Conference on FfD that took place in Monterrey.
- Reforming the United Nations: Lessons from a History in Progress
International Relations Studies and the United Nations Occassional Papers. " 2003 No. 1
Edward C. Luck is Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs and Director of the Center of International Organization of the School of International and ...
- Reforms related to the United Nations
Essentially, there are two types of reforms. Ones that require the consent of the Permanent Members, and the ones that depend on the General Assembly or on the civil societies in each of the member states. Admittedly, all, except perhaps three of the refor ...
- Reinventing UNCTAD
The paper highlights the role and influence of UNCTAD in global economy governance and stresses its continuing relevance and the importance of revitalizing UNCTAD's work so as to bring it once again to the forefront of multilateral efforts to deal with the ...
- Responsibility to Protect, The
This report is about the so-called "right of humanitarian intervention": the question of when, if ever, it is appropriate for states to take coercive - and in particular military - action, against another state for the purpose of protecting people at risk ...
- Role of the United Nations in Forming Global Norms
The intent of this essay is to describe and evaluate the role of the UN system (the Organization as a hole and its individual agencies, programs, funds,...) in stablishing globally accepted standards and norms of behavior.
- Summary of proposals to Reform the System of International Institutions
The aim of this paper, which gathers some of the most important proposals made to reform the system of international isntitutions, is to form a starting point for reflection on these issues.
- Tiempo de Acción
Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article published in El País in December 2007.
- Time for Action
Federico Mayor Zaragoza's article published in El País in December 2007.
- Toward Understanding Global Governance
Since 1991, The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and the American SOciety of International Law (ASIL) have annually co-sponsored a two-week workshop on international organizations for scholars and practicioners, which purposes are :
to ...
- Towards a new International Financial Architecture
Statement submitted by the European Network on Finance and Development, presenting some proposals to disminish the impact of the financial crises.
- UN in Crisis?, The
It is fashionable to suggest that the UN is in crisis. But the UN has been almost in perpetual crisis since its creation- the Cold War erupted almost immediatily afterwards. And crisis -and its resolution- are the UN ''raison d'etre''.
- UN in its Second-Half Century, The
The Independent Working Group sought to make as clear a statement as possible to the governments and peoples of the world about the need to enhance and realign the United Nations so that it might better meet the challenges of the decades ahead. Throughout ...
- Un nouveau capitalisme?
Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
- UN Reform : An Analysis
Comments by Global Policy Forum on the UN reform process and its main actors.
- Unfinished story of women and the United Nations, The
This book covers more than 85 years of history between women and inter-governmental organizations. Unrecorded by history and untold by the media, this book recalls the success story of women and the League of Nations and describes the unfolding history of ...
- United Nations : The Embarrassment of International Law
We need to work towards remarking the United Nations in the spirit of the preamble to the Charter, and I quote... faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and the worth of the human person, in equal rignts of men and women and of nations large and ...
- United Nations and Democracy : Towards Sustainable Peace-bulding, The
The UN has made some important advancement in developing approaches for addressing democracy-related issues. However, there still exists a great need to develop policies that integrate and mainstream democratisation support in peace missions and formulate ...
- United Nations and Global Social-Economic Policy : Global Keynesianism for a New Era, The
"New Deal" policy conceded an important role to the nation state in economic development, promised minimum social and economic guarantees to citizens, and favored a process of national economic planning and regulation.
The Global Keynesian consensus collap ...
- United Nations System: Prospects for Institutional Renewal, The
This paper assesses the institutional constraints on the effectiveness of the United Nations over the course of its existence, especially in relation to its central mission to promote international peace and security.
At the same time, it discusses the ach ...
- Upholding democracy in the globalized world : three fundamental policy options
In many questions, and particularly distributive questions, the nation states can, if they go about it properly, realize the will of the majority even in the context of integrated world markets. Nevertheless, the demand for supranational decisions is growi ...
- Why we Don't need a new International Environmental Organization
The premise of this essay is that the current debate about global environmental governance with its dominant focus on establishing a super-organization for the environment, represents a serious misdiagnosis of the issues, is patently unfair to the United N ...
- World Democratic Governance
Almost 20 years after the "Washington Consensus", and nearly 10 years after the fall of the "Berlin Wall", the system of international instituttions has become polarised, split into two branches. On the one hand there is UN, on the other are the economic, ...
- ¿Nuevo capitalismo?
Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
