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Topic: Global governance


In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Global governance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Global governance refers to political interaction aimed at solving problems that affect more than one state or region when there is no power of enforcing compliance.
Global governance is not world government, and even less democratic globalization.
Global governance refers to the political interaction that is required to solve problems that affect more than one state or region when there is no power of enforcing compliance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Global_governance   (703 words)

  
 Global Governance Marches Forward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Global governance differs from previous attempts to establish world government: there is no marauding military force marching behind a modern day Hitler, nor will question be put to a vote by a "league" of nations.
Global governance is simply being constructed by an incredibly small number of people who have developed an ingenious strategy and structure to achieve objectives that have been pursued for centuries.
Global governance advocates envision a world in which all people are free from the threat of war, are guaranteed to have at least then basic nutritional needs met, and adequate housing.
www.wealth4freedom.com /ECOLOGIC.html   (3108 words)

  
 Our Global Neighborhood
Global governance, according to the report, "does not imply world government or world federalism." Although the difference between "world government" and "global governance" has been compared to the difference between "rape" and "date-rape," the system of governance described in the report is a new system.
Global governance is a procedure toward defined objectives that employs a variety of methods, none of which give the governed an opportunity to vote "yes" or "no" for the outcome.
Global commons are defined to be: "the atmosphere, outer space, the oceans, and the related environment and life-support systems that contribute to the support of human life." This broad definition of the global commons would give the UN authority to deal with environmental matters inside the borders of sovereign states, and on privately owned property.
www.sovereignty.net /p/gov/gganalysis.htm   (6584 words)

  
 Managing Global Governance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Governance is the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs.
Global governance without some resolution of the accountability problem cannot be credible and accountability can only be seen in the details of the work of the organizations who are to be held accountable for their use of resources.
An examination of the issue of global governance from an international public management perspective suggests the emergence of a form of state apparatus that is qualitatively different from its homologues at the national level.
www.intlmgt.com /portfolio/Mangov.html   (8266 words)

  
 Jean-François Thibault, As if the world were a virtual global polity
Therefore, as globalization undermines the "iron-grip" that this "embedded statism" has had on the social sciences, it is the very imaginary derived from its boundaries which becomes misleading when attempting to understand all those ambiguities and uncertainties which are neither inside nor outside but both inside and outside it (Rosenau, 1997: 4-7).
Hence, recondite beyond the politics of global governance and the functionning of its ensuing global order, lies the process within which a proper ground is reinstitued and the whereabouts of those transversal efforts become conceivable.
This paper has put forward a exploratory reading of global governance focusing on its significance as a framework of onto-political possibilities expressing a mutation in the symbolic ordering of human relations which might now be conceived, from a political philosophical point of view, as necessarily global in character.
www.theglobalsite.ac.uk /press/108thibault.htm   (4459 words)

  
 Civil Society and Global Governance Contextual paper prepared by Fernando Henrique Cardoso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Global threats, such as financial volatility, environmental disasters, terrorism, drugs and contagious diseases, affect people's lives everywhere and are of such a magnitude that no country can address them on its own.
Global governance - as well as globalization - is a highly contested process where the space for political action by states and non-state actors is greatly extended.
Global terrorism and the drug trade are potent expressions of the destructive power of non-state criminal networks and of their capacity to inflict tremendous damage not only to specific countries but to the international order as a whole.
www.un.org /reform/pdfs/cardosopaper13june.htm   (3622 words)

  
 Corrupt government, conspiracy, new world order, no future.
Global governance, as it is conceived, and as it is being implemented,
The conflicting philosophies of governance are on a collision course.
Instead, the prevailing philosophy held by these organizations and institutions is that government is sovereign and may dispense or withhold freedoms and privileges, or impose restrictions and penalties, in order to manage its citizens to achieve peace and prosperity for all.
www.pushhamburger.com /morenews12.htm   (14829 words)

  
 Global Governance
Although it has been underway for decades, the plan to create global governance (a euphemism for world government) will be be making its public debut during the United Nations Millennium Summit starting September 6, 2000.
By violently protesting globalization, the protests and riots in Seattle (#1 photo) during the World Trade Organization (WTO) were designed to create the urgency and momentum necessary to force the world leaders at the Millennium Summit to create a new United Nations Charter.
As with the recommendations from the UN Commission on global governance, these NGOs will demand more open international institutions, inclusion of the WTO into the United Nations and a new parliamentary body within the United nations for themselves.
www.discerningtoday.org /global_govern_bkgrnd.htm   (975 words)

  
 TPMCafe || A Crisis of Global Governance?
Economic globalization, new immediate global communications like the internet and cell phones, inexpensive travel, the energy problem, and the use of terrorism to disrupt those are causing great stress, some fear, and great uncertainty about the future.
Governments have become a tool to use against competitors, watchdog functions that used to protect the public interest have been inverted, and increasingly international relations are driven by corporate interests, not national interests.
Globalization has caused a sense of existential insecurity because there may always be a place where the costs to a multinational is less.
americaabroad.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/9/22/221223/345   (10376 words)

  
 Idaho Observer: Looming Millennium Assembly promises age of global governance
The UN Millennium Assembly is going to explore methods that will facilitate the eradication of national sovereignty and the dissolution of international borders in the interest of a form of global governance often referred to as the New World Order.
Global governance will empower and fund the United Nations to be the supreme governmental authority on the planet.
The agenda of the UN was published by the Commission on Global Governance in 1995 and now appears as a charter.
www.proliberty.com /observer/20000804.htm   (1062 words)

  
 A Declaration of the Value of Global Governance
The document below is an on-line petition to the leaders of society to recognize the value of establishing a system of global governance.
Now in our time, a new worldview known as “integral philosophy” provides the wisdom and the impetus for the creation of a functional system of global government.
While the intent of this declaration is evident on its face, the links on the left explain integral philosophy and describe the kind of government envisioned by the integral worldview.
www.integralworldgovernment.org   (450 words)

  
 UN REFORM - Restructuring for Global Governance
The United Nations has concluded that it is the institution of governance that must be responsible for the security of people and it is preparing to redefine national sovereignty, demilitarize national capabilities, and disregard the protest of uncivil society - read: organizations not accredited by the United Nations.
Global commons is defined to be "The atmosphere, outer space, the oceans beyond national jurisdiction, and the related environment and life-support systems that contribute to the support of human life." (9) The United Nations Center for Human Settlements (HABITAT) is being incorporated into the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
Global governance is not an event; it is a process.
www.iahf.com /world/un-refm.html   (2140 words)

  
 Global Media Governance, O Siochru, Girard & Mahan
Global Media Governance is unquestionably the best introduction and overview to this area that has ever been published.
On the one hand, the corporate globalization of media fractures the public sphere, silences voices of diversity, and leads to a narrow, undemocratic global governance regime.
To the extent there is governance of global media, it arises from an uncoordinated hodgepodge of specialist activities at a variety of international organizations that are poorly understood and far from transparent.
www.comunica.org /gmg   (820 words)

  
 final bibliography on global governance and UN reform
Abstract: Distinguishes between "governance" as being a social function involving the management of interdependent individuals or groups, and "government," a set of formal organizations that make and enforce rules.
Argues that governments have become increasingly weak, and that we should look towards international governance, not by forming a world government, but by creating other arrangements for solving international problems.
The Commission on Global Governance is an independent group of 28 leaders with diverse experience and responsibilities.
www.iisd.org /ic/info/ss9603.htm   (2010 words)

  
 Global Governance - A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
Global Governance - A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
From 1 July 2005, Global Governance has a new editorial team from the University of Warwick and the University of Vicotria.
Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
www.arts.ualberta.ca /globalgovernance   (150 words)

  
 Global Forum: Governance:Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The principal agenda items for the conference included (i) corporate governance of banks, (ii) a stock take of progress in policy reforms since the publication of the Asian White Paper in 2003, (iii) the role of the board in implementing the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, and (iv) corporate governance of state-owned enterprises.
Its objectives are to bring together a group of Latin American companies who have adopted best corporate governance practices to provide private sector input into the work of the Roundtable; and to share with each other and the public their experiences putting the principles of good corporate governance into practice.
The OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State Owned Enterprises were presented for the first time after their official adoption by the OECD in April 2005.
www.oecd.org /department/0,2688,en_2649_34613_1_1_1_1_1,00.html   (730 words)

  
 Global Governance: The Quiet War Against American Independence
Global Governance: The Quiet War Against American Independence contains exclusive interviews with national news makers on the front lines of the quiet war.
This compelling program documents the treaties and UN conferences that are undermining American independence and paving the way for global control.
Global Governance: The Quiet War Against American Independence is a powerful new television documentary that reveals the truth about the greatest untold story of our lifetime.
www.eagleforum.org /order/video/gg.html   (463 words)

  
 Propaganda Matrix - Multimedia - Global Governance
His book approved of their plan for global, or world, control to supersede our self-government by "We the people." The professor had a profound effect on one of his students.
In the next several years, he pushed for several United Nations treaties (including some rejected by Presidents Reagan and Bush) which are designed to control human behavior, energy consumption, private property, and natural resources.
The President issued a secret order (PDD 25) to place American armed forces under foreign command and in foreign uniform, and he began using U.S. troops as global cops and social workers.
www.propagandamatrix.com /multimedia/global_governance.html   (301 words)

  
 The Centre for the Study of Global Governance (LSE)
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance
Based at the London School of Economics, the Centre aims to increase understanding and knowledge of global issues, to encourage interaction between academics, policy makers, journalists and activists, and to propose solutions.
Today it is led by co-directors Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science David Held and Professor of Global Governance Mary Kaldor.
www.lse.ac.uk /Depts/global   (144 words)

  
 [No title]
"Global Governance is the leading academic journal focused on global threats and challenges, policy options for dealing with them, and international strategies for advancing the welfare for all humanity.
Global Governance provides a much-needed forum for practitioners and academics who want to explore the impact of international institutions and multilateral processes on economic development, peace and security, human rights, and preservation of the environment.
A refereed journal, Global Governance is published in association with the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and the United Nations University (UNU).
www.rienner.com /viewbook.cfm?BOOKID=1310   (385 words)

  
 glogov.org - The Global Governance Project
We are happy to announce the 2005 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change "International Organisations and Global Environmental Governance", to be held in Potsdam (Germany) on 2-3 December 2005.
This conference will focus on the many organisations, agencies, programmes and secretariats at the international level that are entrusted with identifying, analysing and managing problems of global environmental change.
We invite presentations of research on all types of international and transnational organisations, including United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organisations outside the UN system, regional organisations, nongovernmental transnational actors, as well as novel multi-stakeholder organisations beyond the state.
www.glogov.org   (222 words)

  
 [No title]
This website is designed and maintained by the Department of Political Science in collaboration with the Arts Technologies for Learning Centre
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
Global Governance journal has a new editorial team from the University of Warwick and the University of Victoria.
www.arts.ualberta.ca /globalgovernance/english/index.shtml   (108 words)

  
 Global Governance Webring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This webring is designed to link together websites of organizations and networks concerned with global governance issues, including United Nations reform, the development of international law, global democracy and world federalist.
Webmasters are invited to submit their websites for consideration for inclusion in the webring.
Make sure you know which webpage on your site you'd like the webring to link to (it should be a page with the most information about / relevance to global governance).
www.worldfederalist.org /RELATED/ggring.html   (244 words)

  
 Global Governance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
New Rules for Global Finance is a coalition of development, human rights, labor, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty and inequality, uphold fundamental rights, and protect the environment.
Reform Proposals for the Governance Structures of the International Financial Institutions.
Reforming the Governance of the IMF and the World Bank.
www.new-rules.org /globalgovernance.htm   (377 words)

  
 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Global Governance (Many people trying to get messages to the author of global governance.
being eroded by the rise of global governance.
issue was ripe for the picking by the advocates of global governance.
www.apfn.org /apfn/global_governance.htm   (15209 words)

  
 Global Governance Recently Published Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A Global Disease and Its Governance: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Agency of NGOs—Hakan Seckinelgin
Managing the Global Problems Created by the Conventional Arms Trade: An Assessment of the UN Register of Conventional Arms—Edward J. Laurance, Hendrik Wagenmakers, and Herbert Wulf
Governing the Arctic: From Cold War Theatre to Mosaic of Cooperation—Oran R. Young
www.rienner.com /ggrec.htm   (668 words)

  
 Global Governance Menu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A century-long review of the major events in the development of the United Nations
Report of the UN-funded Commission on Global Governance
UN Reform: Restructuring the UN for Global Governance
www.sovereignty.net /p/gov   (54 words)

  
 International Finance Corporation - Promoting Corporate Governance for Sustainable Development   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
International Finance Corporation - Promoting Corporate Governance for Sustainable Development
The Global Corporate Governance Forum is a multi-donor trust fund co-founded by the World Bank Group and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to promote global, regional, and local initiatives that aim to improve the institutional framework and practices of corporate governance.
Housed in the joint IFC/World Bank Corporate Governance Department, the Forum’s unique activities promote sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction within the framework of agreed international development targets.
www.gcgf.org   (169 words)

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