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2009
Sustainable Global Governance for the 21st Century Thomas G. Weiss, Tapio Kanninen, and Michael K. Busch
Time is running out for the UN to position itself to effectively manage new global challenges, such as the economic and financial crisis, climate change, the food and the energy crisis. To this end this report outlines three main recommendations: for the short term, the report recommends transforming human resource policies and providing financing for UN research; improving policy leadership by the Secretary-General during crises; and the establishment of an independent analytical institution. For the medium term the report suggests improving the UN’s own policy planning and research capacities as well as a better division of labor between the UN and other multilateral organizations. Lastly, as a long term goal, the report suggests a major overhaul of the UN system in the form of a second UN Conference on International Organization. Occasional Paper 45, FES , September 2009
Dean Baker, Peter Bofinger, Kemal Derviş, John Eatwell, Eric Helleiner, Stanislaw Kluza, José Antonio Ocampo, Arturo O’Connell, Prabhat Patnaik, Avinash Persaud, Tony Porter, Damon Silvers, Joseph Stiglitz
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 42, FES , April 2009
2008
Can the NPT Regime Be Fixed or Should It Be Abandoned? Ramesh Thakur, Jane Boulden and Thomas G. Weiss
Nuclear issues are back on the global political agenda. Apart from the day-to-day fire fighting, a more wide-ranging debate on how to tackle nuclear challenges has emerged. With this paper by Professors Ramesh Thakur, Jane Boulden and Thomas G. Weiss, FES wishes to contribute to this debate. The authors conclude provocatively that the NPT has passed its use-by date in world politics, creating a situation of “nuclear apartheid” which confronts the world with a highly precarious and unsustainable balance. They anticipate a post-NPT world of either multiplying nuclear weapons states (NWS) or one without nuclear weapons, and explore a potential role of the United Nations in underpinning, shaping, and transforming nuclear orders. Occasional Paper 40, FES , October 2008 An Agenda for Reform of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Jack Boorman
Occasional Paper 38, FES , January 2008 2007
Fighting Drugs and Building Peace: Towards Policy Coherence between Counter-Narcotics and Peace Building Barnett R. Rubin/ Alexandra Guáqueta
A frequently overlooked feature of the fight against drugs is the linkages between the production of illegal narcotics and the political dynamics in post-conflict countries. Afghanistan and Colombia are cases in point. Post-conflict situations not only attract the cultivation of crops used for the production of illegal drugs. Events in Guinea-Buissau and Haiti illustrate that the same sad logic applies to the international drug mafia’s selection of trading “hot spots”. It is against this background that a debate has ensued on the policy coherence between the international community’s fight against drugs and its parallel efforts to sustain peace in post-conflict countries. Occasional Paper 37, FES , November 2007 Moving Beyond the Privatization Debate
Whether or not to privatize essential services in developing countries has been subject to a long and heated controversy. Platz and Schroeder provide a new perspective and try to overcome the ideological tug of war. Rather than asking “who should provide the services”, the authors adopt a financing point of view and look at how access to basic utilities for all can be funded in a sustainable manner. Occasional Paper 34, FES , September 2007 download this publication
Growth with Responsibility in a Globalized World: Findings of the Shadow G-8 Joseph E. Stiglitz and Stephany Griffith-Jones Occasional paper 31, FES , May 2007 A Priority Agenda for the Next UN Secretary-General Thomas G. Weiss and Peter J. Hoffman
FES Occasional Paper 28, FES , January 2007
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