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"The global community confronts a comprehensive and interconnected array of compelling economic, development and security challenges which require effective global governance. At the centre of world governance stand the new plurilateral summit institutions; the G8 and G20, and UN summits on subjects such as sustainable development and climate change. Many observers and participants regard the performance of these summits as inadequate and doubt their ability to cope with increasingly complex and numerous global challenges. This book critically examines how effectively central global institutions comply with their commitments and how their effectiveness can be improved through accountability measures designed to raise compliance and deliver better results. Expert contributors assess compliance and accountability at the key global institutions to provide an important resource for policymakers and scholars in political science, governance and accountability."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Forging the Trade-Environment-Social Cohesion Link: Global Challenges, North American Experiences -- Global Problems, North American Solutions -- The Analyses -- Note -- References -- PART I: LINKING TRADE, ENVIRONMENT, AND SOCIAL VALUES: THE GLOBAL AND NAFTA EXPERIENCES -- 2 From Trade Liberalisation to Sustainable Development: The Challenges of Integrated Global Governance -- The Seattle Shock -- The Multidimensional Nature of Globalisation -- The Components of Globalisation -- The Consequences of Globalisation -- Globalisation and the Challenges of Environmental Governance -- NAFTA's Environmental Regime -- Assessing NAFTA's Environmental Regime -- Lessons Learned from the NAFTA Experience -- Note -- References -- 3 The New Interface Agenda among Trade, Environment, and Social Cohesion -- The Dichotomy between Public Protest and Public Policy -- Fundamental Changes in the Trade Rules -- Dispute Settlement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Embedded Ecologism and Institutional Inequality: Linking Trade, Environment, and Social Cohesion in the G8 -- Affirming the Trilogy: The Rambouillet Foundation, 1975 -- Forging the Trade-Environment Link: The First Cycle, 1975-1981 -- Trade for Environment: The Second Cycle, 1982-1988 -- Completing the Triangle and Institutionalising Imbalance:The Third Cycle, 1989-1995 -- Restoring the Balance: The Fourth, 'Globalization' Cycle, 1996-Present -- Conclusion: Causes of Normative Continuity and Change -- Notes -- References -- 5 Winning Together: The NAFTA Trade-Environment Record -- The Record of Environmental Regulatory Protection in North America -- Patterns and Sources of Regime-Governed Outcomes

Analyzing twenty-first century innovations in global health governance, this volume addresses questions of pandemics, essential medicines and disease eradication through detailed case studies of critical and rapidly spreading infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and SARS and 'lifestyle' illnesses such as tobacco-related illnesses, all of which are at the centre of the current global health challenge.

"This book charts the course and causes of UN, G7 and G20 governance of climate change through the crucial period of 2015-2021. It provides a careful, comprehensive and reliable description of the individual and interactive contributions of the G7, G20 and UN summits and analyses their results. The authors explain these contributions and results by considering the impacts of causal candidates, such as a changing physical ecosystem and international political system and the actions of individual leaders of the world's most systemically significant countries. They apply and improve an established, compact causal model, grounded in international relations theory, to guide these tasks. By developing, prescribing and implementing immediate, realistic actionable policy solutions to cope with the urgent, existential challenge of controlling climate change, this volume will appeal to scholars of international relations, global governance and global environmental governance"--

"This title was first published in 2001. Containing a wide array of intellectual perspectives, this illuminating text takes an authoritative look at the rules, decision-making procedures and organizational resources at the heart of the institutions of global governance and provides a much-needed Asian perspective on key issues, dealing with new questions raised at the Okinawa summit. Particularly suitable for graduate courses in political science, international political economy, international organizations, corporate strategy and international business, as well as having implications for the public policy community."--Provided by publisher.

"This title was first published in 2002. As the twenty-first century began, it was easy to assume that the reforms to the international financial system undertaken in the last half of the 1990s were adequate to the core tasks of ensuring stability, sustained growth and broadly shared benefits in the world economy. That comfortable consensus has now been shattered. This volume critically assesses fundamental issues including: -the elements and adequacy of recent G7-led efforts at international financial reform -current causes of and prospects for growth in the new? global economy -the challenges of crisis prevention -private sector participation and IFI responsibilities -the world's monetary supply and sovereignty in the face of market forces. These key topics are examined by leading economists and scholars of political economy from both academic and policy communities in G7 countries, making it an essential addition to the collections of all those concerned with the challenges facing the world economy in the coming years."--Provided by publisher.