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Global Governance and the United Nations System
Edited by Volker Rittberger
The United Nations System in the Twenty-first Century
ISBN 92-808-1075-8
Paperback
2002
  264 pages
US$21.95
 
 
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    Description
    Global Governance and the United Nations System offers a wide-ranging analysis of changing world order at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It examines the progression from international to global governance, focusing on the fundamental change of actors, agendas, collective decision making, and the role of the United Nations system. [READ MORE...]

    Editors
    Volker Rittberger is Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Center for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

    Contents
    From International to Global Governance: Actors, Collective Decision-Making, and the UN in the World of the Twenty First Century • Political Systems in the Postnational Constellation: Social Denationalization and Multilevel Governance • Security-Community building for better Global Governance • Economic Globalization and Global Governance: Towards a post-Washington Consensus? • Pressing Ahead with New Procedures for Old Machinery: Global Governance and Civil Society • A Subsidiary and Federal World Republic: Thoughts on Democracy in the Age of Globalization • Global Governance and Justice.

    Contributors
    Tanja Brühl • Richard Higgott • Otfried Höffe • Sorpong Peou • Maria Pia Riggirozzi • Yash Tandon • Diana Tussie • Michael Zürn

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