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Irrelevant or Indispensable?
The United Nations in the Twenty-first Century
Av Paul Heinbecker, Patricia Goff
Häftad, 2005
460 kr
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Suffering from a divided membership, the United Nations is at a crossroads, unable to assure human or national security. The UN has been criticized as irrelevant by its most - and least - powerful members alike because it can't reach consensus on how to respond to twenty-first-century challenges of …
Afghanistan
Transition Under Threat
Häftad, 2008
503 kr
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Many have questioned the wisdom of the international intervention in Afghanistan in light of the escalation of violence and instability in the country in the past few years. Particularly uncertain are Canadians, who have been inundated with media coverage of an increasingly dirty war in southern …
Critical Mass
The Emergence of Global Civil Society
Av James W. St.G. Walker, Andrew S. Thompson
Häftad, 2008
503 kr
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Public concern about inequitable economic globalization has revealed the demand for citizen participation in global decision making. Civil society organizations have taken up the challenge, holding governments and corporations accountable for their decisions and actions, and developing …
Exporting Good Governance
Temptations and Challenges in Canada's Aid Program
Av Jennifer Welsh, Ngaire Woods
Häftad, 2007
503 kr
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Can good governance be exported? International development assistance is more frequently being applied to strengthening governance in developing countries, and in Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada's Aid Program, the editors bring together diverse perspectives to …
Can the World Be Governed?
Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism
Häftad, 2008
531 kr
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In this book, leading international relations experts and practitioners examine through theory and case study the prospect for successful multilateral management of the global economy and international security. In the theory section contributors tackle the big questions: Why is there an apparent …
From Civil Strife to Peace Building
Examining Private Sector Involvement in West African Reconstruction
Av Hany Besada
Häftad, 2009
503 kr
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From Civil Strife to Peace Building examines peace-building efforts in the fragile West African states of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire, with a focus on the role of the private sector in leading the reconstruction initiatives. Given that aid and debt relief, the traditional remedies for …
Emerging Powers in Global Governance
Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process
Av Andrew F. Cooper, Agata Antkiewicz
Häftad, 2010
503 kr
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The early twenty-first century has seen the beginning of a considerable shift in the global balance of power. Major international governance challenges can no longer be addressed without the ongoing co-operation of the large countries of the global South. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, …
Backpacks Full of Hope
The UN Mission in Haiti
Häftad, 2010
518 kr
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Backpacks Full of Hope: The UN Mission in Haiti describes the experience of a Chilean general as Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) during the particularly turbulent year September 2005 to September 2006. It details the realities of commanding …
Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century
Häftad, 2009
489 kr
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Two high-level commissions - the Sutherland report in 2004, and the Warwick Commission report in 2007 - addressed the future of the World Trade Organization and made proposals for incremental reform. This book goes further; it explains why institutional reform of the WTO is needed at this critical …
Global Food Crisis
Governance Challenges and Opportunities
Av Jennifer Clapp, Marc J. Cohen
Häftad, 2009
531 kr
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The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world's poorest countries, both for …
From Desolation to Reconstruction
Iraq's Troubled Journey
Av Mokhtar Lamani, Bessma Momani
Häftad, 2010
518 kr
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Iraq's streets are unsafe, its people tormented, and its identity as a state challenged from within and without. For some, Iraq is synonymous with internal hatred, bloodshed, and sectarianism. The contributors to this book, however, know another Iraq: a country that was once full of hope and …
Independence of South Sudan
The Role of Mass Media in the Responsibility to Prevent
Av Walter C. Soderlund, E. Donald Briggs
Häftad, 2014
503 kr
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The Responsibility to Protect, the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), focused on three international responsibilities in the area of human security: the responsibility to prevent, the responsibility to react, and the responsibility to rebuild. The …
Syria, Press Framing, and the Responsibility to Protect
Av E. Donald Briggs, Walter C. Soderlund m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
463 kr
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The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of World War II, sending shock waves through Syria, its neighbours, and the European Union. Calls for the international community to intervene in the conflict, in compliance with the UN-sanctioned Responsibility to …
Haiti
Hope for a Fragile State
Av Yasmine Shamsie, Andrew S. Thompson
Häftad, 2006
470 kr
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""This book...avoids the political debates about Jean-Bertrand Aristide that dominate so many current writings about Haiti. Its focus is the society itself, the sources of difference, the origins of violence, and the possibility of change....The superb work done by the editors has established a …
Canada and the Middle East
In Theory and Practice
Av Paul Heinbecker, Bessma Momani
Häftad, 2007
513 kr
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Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world's most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada's diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada's …
Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization's Development Agenda
Häftad, 2009
420 kr
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The newly adopted World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Development Agenda presents a real opportunity to revolutionize the international governance of intellectual property law and policy. The litmus test for its success, however, will be if and how the agenda is implemented in practice. …
