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Shaping Globalization!
As part of the international work of the Friedrich- Ebert-Stiftung, Dialogue on Globalization contributes worldwide to the debate on globalization and global governance. It is based on the premise that – through an inclusive and responsive global policy approach – globalization can be shaped into a direction that promotes peace, democracy and social justice.
The program draws intensely on the international network of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung – a German non-profit institution committed to the principles of social democracy with offices, programs and partners in more than 100 countries.
Dialogue on Globalization addresses ”movers and shakers“ both in developing countries and in the industrialized parts of the world. The program is coordinated by the head office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin and by the FES offices in New York and Geneva.
Publications
Different publication series form part of our activities to enhance understanding of the global policy agenda and support public debate on future policy directions. The “Occasional Papers” series offers in-depth analyses on evolving trends and key questions of global governance. “Briefing papers” provide policymakers, journalists and the general public with concise and competent background commentaries on issues of topical interest.
Dialogue on Globalization also presents “Voices of the South” – a monthly newsletter with articles by renowned journalists from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
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News and Highlights
Publications
New:
Does the UN Peacebuilding Commission Change the Mode of Peacebuilding in Africa?
Severine M. Rugumamu
Using the examples of Sierra Leone and Burundi, Severine M. Rugumamu outlines the functioning of the UN Peace Building Commission (PBC) and discusses the major shortcomings, such as the lack of authority, support problems within the UN and conflicting interests of its members. To reform the PBC, she proposes to turn it into a true peace building “management body” and demands PBC to commit to sustainable development policies, e.g. by creating a multilateral compensatory finance instrument in order to ease the effects of commodity price volatility.
DoG Briefing Paper No. 8, FES Berlin, June 2009
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Towards a Renewed Debt Crisis?
Jürgen Kaiser, Irene Knoke,
Hartmut Kowsky
Jürgen Kaiser, Irene Knoke and Hartmut Kowsky argue that the shortcomings in multilateral debt control and relief mechanisms are amplified by the financial crisis. Thus, a new round of debt crises among Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) poor countries is most likely to occur. They also provide a detailed debt default risk assessment of HIPC countries which - among other indicators - takes climate change into account.
DoG Occasional Paper No. 44, FES Berlin, June 2009
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listen to an interview with Jürgen Kaiser (in German)
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Interviews with UN Special Rapporteur Olivier de Schutter and UN Committee member Virginia Dandan on Monitoring Human Rights
recorded June 11, 2009 on the occasion of a briefing at FES headquarters in Berlin.
Following an initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, a renowned international expert group has developed a new tool to monitor economic, social and cultural human rights. In the times of the global financial and economic crises, this tool aims at enabling government in both developed and developing countries to better track progress made with advancing economic and social rights. The expert group as well as the UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food and members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights met in Berlin in mid-June to share its findings.
 Interview with Olivier de Schutter (8min07)
Interview with Virginia Dandan (5min20)
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Re-Defining the Global Economy
With contributions of
Joseph Stiglitz, Dean Baker,
Peter Bofinger, Kemal Derviş,
John Eatwell, Eric Helleiner, Stanislaw Kluza, José Antonio Ocampo, Arturo O’Connell,
Prabhat Patnaik, Avinash Persaud, Tony Porter
and Damon Silvers
The global economic crisis we are in presents both, serious challenges and an opportunity to explore the need for shared, international responsibility, to engage - in an ongoing way - the political governance of the global economy. Leading economist and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz introduces this publication for which FES invited expert authors to discuss three approaches to Re-Defining the Global Economy namely, necessary institutional arrangements for a just well-governed and well-functioning financial system, the question of national or regional versus global regulation of such a system and the necessary political and economic arrangements for securing social protections.
Occasional Paper No. 42, FES New York, April 2009
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