Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century"The world today is facing unprecedented challenges of governance far beyond what the United Nations, established more than 70 years ago, was designed to face. The grave effects of global climate change are already manifesting themselves, requiring rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society if we are to arrest catastrophic and probably irreversible consequences. Science has uncovered the frightening and rapid collapse in global biodiversity, threatening ecosystems across the planet that maintain the correct functioning of the biosphere, upon which we rely for survival. But there is more; there are other global catastrophic risks. We live in a world in which a diminished faith in our political leaders and governmental structures, public disillusionment with partisan politics and a willingness to believe populist promises, disturbing trends in income inequality, human rights violations and the spread of corruption have coincided with the rise of autocratic leaders, often intent on awakening the voices of nationalisms which have been so destructive during the 20th century. The rejection by some nations of the benefits of multilaterism and international cooperation, which have been at the center of the postwar global order, has heightened the risks of fundamental instabilities that could precipitate a range of major crises, disregarding the lessons of the past"-- |
Contents
The Challenges of the 21st Century | 3 |
A History of Global Governance | 30 |
Building Supranational Institutions | 65 |
reforming the central institutions of the united nations | 79 |
Reforms to Strengthen Its Effectiveness | 81 |
A Catalyst for Change | 107 |
Advisory Mechanisms to Support Global Policymaking | 123 |
Beyond an Outdated Paradigm | 131 |
A New United Nations Funding Mechanism | 264 |
UN Specialized Agencies and Governance for Global Risks | 293 |
Economic Governance for Inequality and the Private Sector | 309 |
Global Financial Architecture and the International | 337 |
Responding to Global Environmental Crises | 360 |
Population and Migration | 379 |
Education for Transformation | 411 |
Some Immediate Steps ForwardGetting from Here to There | 457 |
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