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Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned
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Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned

This volume identifies the successes and failures of international and transnational governance and provides the basis for a broad comparative analysis across problem areas.

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By Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, P.J. Simmons, Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Published on Oct 18, 2001

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This book asks a multinational and multidisciplinary group of scholars and analysts from around the world to write on sixteen global problems. The individual chapters identify the successes and failures of international and transnational governance approaches in these particular problem areas and examine the conditions for their effective use. This provides the basis for a broad comparative analysis across problem areas and for the formulation of specific recommendations for governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and others actively involved in transnational and national governance. Jessica T. Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment, writes the foreword.

Part I: Introduction (P.J. Simmons and Chantal de Jonge Oudraat )
This section will provide an overview of literature on global governance and international regimes and will outline of the analytical framework of the study.

Part II: Global Issues

  1. Communications
    William J. Drake, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
     
  2. Corruption
    Peter Richardson, Transparency International
     
  3. Crime, Illicit Markets, and Money Laundering
    Phil Williams, Professor, University of Pittsburgh
     
  4. Development Assistance
    Catherine Gwin, World Bank
     
  5. Economics: Global Finance
    Robert E. Litan, Director of Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
     
  6. Economics: International Trade
    Vinod K. Aggarwal, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
     
  7. Environment: Nature Conservation
    Peter H. Sand, Lecturer, Institute of International Law, Munich
     
  8. Environment: Pollution
    Peter M. Haas, Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
     
  9. Global Commons: The Oceans, Antarctica, the Atmosphere, and Outer Space
    Christopher C. Joyner, Professor of Government, Georgetown University
     
  10. Health
    Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Director, Health Policy Research, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
     
  11. Human Rights
    Dinah L. Shelton, Professor, Notre Dame Law School
     
  12. Labor Rights
    Brian Langille, Professor, University of Toronto
     
  13. Refugee Protection and Assistance
    Kathleen Newland, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment
     
  14. Violence: Intrastate Conflict
    Timothy D. Sisk, Senior Research Associate, University of Denver
     
  15. Warfare: Conventional Weapons
    Joanna Spear, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
     
  16. Warfare: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons
    Thomas Bernauer, Professor, University of Zurich
     

Part III: Conclusions

  1. From Agenda to Accord
    P.J. Simmons and Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
     
  2. From Accord to Action
    P.J. Simmons and Chantal de Jonge Oudraat

Advance Praise

"...an enormously valuable contribution to the literature on globalism and the process of globalization currently underway...Highly recommended for advanced students and researchers, faculty, and participants in international policy making."
—CHOICE

"Comprehensive in its coverage of global challenges, hard-headed in its assessment of what works and what doesn't in dealing with them, this is quite simply the best guide I've seen to the new world that confronts us."
—John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University

"An important primer for fresh thinking on critical issues in global governance, with evidence and argument for a practical and far seeing approach."
—Lloyd Axworthy, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada

"An enormous contribution. This book makes clear how intertwined the world has become and how the requirements for managing global issues will have to adjust. After reading this book it will be impossible to think in traditional foreign policy terms."
—Princeton Lyman, The Aspen Institute

" . . . cogently analyzes 16 of the global agenda's major issues, probing each for the light it sheds on the problems that inhibit fair and effective global governance. The collective result is a powerful and compelling statement about the present state of the world and where it is heading."
—James N. Rosenau, The George Washington University

Authors

Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
Former Associate
P.J. Simmons
Former Associate
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Distinguished Fellow
Jessica Tuchman Mathews

Carnegie India does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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