Showing papers by "Thomas G. Weiss published in 2013"
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10 Jul 2013
TL;DR: Murphy et al. as discussed by the authors identified knowledge gap, policy gap, institutional gap, and compliance gap as global governance gaps and discussed the role of knowledge gap in the emergence of global governance.
Abstract: Tables and Figures vi Abbreviations vii About the Author x Foreword by Craig N. Murphy xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Why Did Global Governance Emerge? 8 2 What Is Global Governance? 27 3 What Are Global Governance Gaps? 45 4 Knowledge Gaps 62 5 Normative Gaps 84 6 Policy Gaps 106 7 Institutional Gaps 127 8 Compliance Gaps 149 9 Whither Global Governance? 169 Notes 186 Selected Readings 211 Index 214
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15 Oct 2013
TL;DR: The absence of a robust global regulatory regime governing financial transactions and innovation helped heighten the effects of the 2007-08 global financial and economic crisis as discussed by the authors, plunging western economies into more than half a decade of recession and sparing little of the rest of the world.
Abstract: The absence of a robust global regulatory regime governing financial transactions and
innovations helped heighten the effects of the 2007-08 global financial and economic
crises, plunging western economies into more than half a decade of recession and sparing
little of the rest of the world. Just a decade earlier, the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98
had also drawn attention to the inadequacies of global financial govern ance, including
to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) role in exacerbating the crisis.2
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01 Mar 2013
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: This article reviewed nine of the 17 volumes that make up the Intellectual History of the United Nations, which was led by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly and Thomas Weiss, focusing on security and politics, economy and statistics, and gender, human rights and social justice.
Abstract: Oxford Development Studies includes occasional review articles of books we consider important contributions to development studies. In this issue, we review nine of the 17 volumes that make up the Intellectual History of the United Nations, which was led by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly and Thomas Weiss. The Intellectual History Project, originally conceived by a great UN civil servant, Sidney Dell, has provided massive and impressive documentation of the UN's role and influence in political, economic and social affairs. Here Dominik Zaum reviews three volumes concerned with security and politics; JoseAntonio Ocampo's review covers three books related to the role of the UN in economy and statistics; and Rosalind Eyben discusses three volumes concerning the UN's role in relation to gender, human rights and social justice. As these reviews indicate, these volumes describe and analyse the varied but heavily constrained role of the UN in affecting global norms and policy, its contributions, its failures and the challenges it faces. In each of the three arenas, the reviews illuminate the ongoing tension that confronts the UN project between the ideals of global cooperation and universal rights and the actuality of realpolitik.
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