Reforming from the top [[electronic resource] ] : a Leaders' 20 Summit / / edited by John English, Ramesh Thakur, and Andrew F. Cooper

• Pubblicazione: Tokyo, Japan ; ; New York, : United Nations University Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.1/01
• Soggetto topico: International cooperation; International relations; World politics - 1989-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: EnglishJohn <1945-> ThakurRamesh Chandra <1948-> CooperAndrew Fenton <1950->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Reforming from the top
• ISBN: 1-4237-6598-2; 92-808-7097-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450188303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II