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International Commissions and the Power of Ideas
Edited by Ramesh Thakur, Andrew F. Cooper and John English
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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
interconnected 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. There
is detailed analysis of a wide variety of international commissions along
with an assessment of the context and impact of international commissions
generally.
- Ramesh Thakur is Senior Vice-Rector of United Nations University
- Andrew F. Cooper is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and Associate Director, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada.
- John English is Executive Director, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada.
Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards Globalization
Edited by F.E. Ian Hamilton, Kaliopa Dimitrovska Andrews and Nataša Pichler-Milanovic
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This volume is one in a series initiated by UNU Institute of Advanced Studies on the relationship between globalisation and urban transformation. It identifies and describes the inter- and intra-urban transformations of Central and Eastern European cities and considers their pre-1945 historic legacies, the socialist period and their contemporary transition towards market oriented and democratic systems.
The dramatic changes since 1989 including the collapse of Communist ideology, the
breakup of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the end of the Cold War and the impact of globalisation and European integration, have reconfigured this region and affected their re-integration into European and global networks.
This book first examines the similarities and differences between significant Central and Eastern European cities, comparing the differing patterns of historical context and socialist legacies before 1990, and the impacts of internal and external forces on re-shaping these cities and their paths of transformation since 1990. It also examines the role of contemporary planning within the overall development of Central and Eastern European cities.
The conclusion demonstrates the similarities and differences between Central and Eastern European cities and their re-integration into global networks.
- F.E. Ian Hamilton was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Kaliopa Dimitrovska Andrews is Director of the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia.
- Nataša Pichler-Milanovic is a Research Fellow at the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia and at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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