International Commissions and the Power of Ideas

Edited Ramesh Thakur, Andrew F. Cooper and John English

PUBLICATION DATA:

ISBN-10: 92-808-1110-X,
ISBN-13: 978-92-808-1110-0

LANGUAGE:

English

PAGES:

350

PRICE:

$45.00

PUBLISHER:

United Nations University Press

PUBLISHED:

May 2005

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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.

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