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“This is the first volume that really focuses on the nature and impacts of the international commissions. It addresses the rationales and impacts of a very interesting and important development in international politics, and that is the creation of international commissions of experts and politically notable figures to try to break logjams in thinking with regard to major policy issues. The influence of the commissions has been quite varied, and it is precisely because of these differences that this book is a very valuable volume for government and international organization officials as well as academic scholars. This book is likely to stand as the most significant study of international commissions for some time./i>
- Mark W. Zacher, Centre of International Relations,
University of British Columbia Liu Institute, Canada
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“This book addresses an interesting question that has not been adequately covered: ideational factors in world politics and the role of international commissions. Its focus on the context and contents of those commissionswork is new. It brings new insights into new concepts and ideas as products of changing times and their impact as agencies of change. It therefore makes a useful contribution to the study of global governance in key issue areas.
- Professor Tatsuro Kunugi, International Christian University, Tokyo,
and former UN Assistant Secretary General
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Description
How are good ideas for enhancing global governance converted into policy initiatives and international institutions? One major route has been via international commissions. The names of many are well known: Brandt, Palme, Brundtland, Kosovo, the Commission on Global Governance, and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. Yet, as an expression of the power of ideas, in the search for a better world, they remain under-analyzed.
International Commissions and the Power of Ideas situates the Commissions as an inter-connected process shaping the mind - and the architectural body - of global governance. The influence of these Commissions has been varied, and these differences make this book particularly relevant. The character and record, and style and substance of a wide variety of International Commissions receive detailed analysis on an individual basis, while the generalized context and impact of International Commissions receives rich comparative appreciation.
Editors
Ramesh Thakur is the Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, (Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations). Andrew F. Cooper is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, and Associate Director of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada. John English is Executive Director, of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
International Commissions and the Mind of Global Governance
An Overview
The Brandt Commission
The End of an Era in North-South Politics
The Palme
Commission
New Thinking about Security
The World Commission on Environment and Development
Ideas and Institutions Intersect Equivocating on the Future of World Order
The Commission on Global Governance
Regulating the Possession and Use of Nuclear Weapons
Ideas, Commissions and Agency in International Security Politics
the Case of the Canberra Commission
Beyond Temples and Tombs
Towards Effective Governance for Sustainable Development Through The World Commission on Dams
Fair Assessment
The Independent International Commission on Kosovo
Intervention, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect
Assessing the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State
Sovereignty
Humanitarian Intervention and the Principle of Non-intervention in the Americas
Ideas, Institutions and the Evolution of Women’s Human Rights
Ideas, Think Tanks, Commissions and Global Politics
International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction
UN Reform Commissions
Is Anyone Listening?
Contributors
Andrew F. Cooper
John English
Jean-Phillipe Thérien
Geoffrey Wiseman
W. Andy Knight
Marianne Hanson
Sanjeev Khagram
Richard J. Goldstone
Nicole Fritz
Ramesh Thakur
Jennifer Welsh
Carolin Thielking
S. Neil MacFarlane
Jorge Heine
Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon
Jon Pederse
Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala
Edward C. Luck
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