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International commissions and the power of ideas / edited by Ramesh Thakur, Andrew F. Cooper, and John English.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International agencies.
- International organization.
- International cooperation.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 317 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Only recently has the power of ideas been taken seriously as a form of agency in international relations, say these scholars and practitioners in the profession, and further that recognition by exploring how ideas influence international or independent commissions. Most of the 14 studies focus on specific commissions, while others discuss more gene.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Abbreviations
- Foreword by Gareth Evans
- Acknowledgements
- 1 International commissions and the mind of global governance
- 2 The Brandt Commission: The end of an era in North-South politics
- 3 The Palme Commission: New thinking about security
- 4 The World Commision on Environment and Development: Ideas and institutions intersect
- 5 Equivocating on the future of world order: The Commission on Global Governance
- 6 Regulating the possession and use of nuclear weapons: Ideas, commissions, and agency in international security politics - the case of the Canberra Commission
- 7 Beyond temples and tombs: Towards effective governance for sustainable development through the World Commission on Dams
- 8 Fair assessment: the Independent International Commission on Kosovo
- 9 Intervention, sovereignty, and the responsibility to protect
- 10 The responsibility to protect: Assessing the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
- 11 The responsibility to protect: Humanitarian intervention and the principle of non-intervention in the Americas
- 12 Ideas, institutions, and the evolution of women's human rights
- 13 Ideas, think-tanks, commissions, and global politics
- 14 UN Reform Commissions: Is anyone listening?
- Appendix: International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 92-808-7088-2
- 92-808-1110-X
- OCLC:
- 65431375
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