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Reforming from the top [electronic resource] : a Leaders' 20 Summit / edited by John English, Ramesh Thakur, and Andrew F. Cooper.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International cooperation.
- International relations.
- World politics--1989-.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo, Japan ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The system of global governance is under serious challenge. The UN, the G7/8, the IMF and the World Bank are but a handful of the organizations suffering from a crisis of legitimacy for an international system that appears ill-suited for timely, innovative and effective solu-tions to contemporary global challenges. Moreover, it is a system that made sense mainly for the post-Second World War era, but sixty years later seems ill-equipped for bridging the growing political and economic divides between North and South and accommodating the needs of the big, emergent markets. Some scholars and pra
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction Reforming the international system from the top a Leaders 20 Summit; 1 Making change happen at the global level; 2 Anticipating the future A political agenda for global economic governance; 3 A Leaders 20 Summit; 4 Multilateralism and the limits of global governance; 5 Balancing act Japan's strategy in global and regional financial governance; 6 The political economy of dissent Global publics after Cancu n; 7 Toward multilateral reform The G20 s contribution; 8 On sherpas and coolies The L20 and non Brahmanical futures
- 9 China's evolving global view10 Brazil's multiple forms of external engagement Foreign policy dilemmas; 11 South Africa Beyond the impasse in global governance; 12 The L20 and the restructuring of the international economic order An Egyptian perspective; 13 Government networks world order and the L20; 14 The L20 in the twenty first century; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4237-6598-2
- 92-808-7097-1
- OCLC:
- 437159990
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