Global Leadership

About: Global Leadership is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1598 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29200 citations.

Women leading and learning through present-day web linking technology

Abstract: Women who move into leadership roles are often influenced strongly by someone outside the family-and-community 'envelope', hence, it is imperative that knowledge gained from the wide range of leadership roles women undertake within their own communities is made available for the benefit of all. However, while the internet can connect people globally, the information is neither comprehensively indexed nor is it interlinked. Consequently, no women's leadership 'body of knowledge' is available as a whole and locating information requires significant detective work. This paper investigates the potential use of 'ontological hypermedia' and Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate the growth and development of successful women's leadership, and proposes a way forward for the implementation of a women's global leadership virtual community. Findings are discussed throughout in relation to the specific needs of women who adopt leadership roles to effect change on a local, regional, or even a global scale.

Gender and EU Climate Policy

Abstract: Reflecting the priorities of EU climate policy, mainstream scholarship has focused on efforts to reduce climate change through greenhouse gas emissions reductions, renewable energy and energy efficiency. It has also examined the EU’s efforts to play a global leadership role in international climate negotiations and agreements. Feminist studies of EU climate policy are informed by mainstream scholarship, but also by feminist theory, intersectionality, and the work of gender, development and environment activists and researchers. This chapter provides an overview of their contributions to our knowledge and understanding of gender and EU climate policy-making: its actors, institutions, processes and outcomes. It then suggests areas for future research.

Special aspects of development of brics countries economic integration

Abstract: This paper presents the results of the study of the issue of international economic integration and its global influence on the world policy and trade relations based on the analysis of BRICS Alliance. BRICS members – Brazil, Russia, India China and South Africa – are five cultures with different attitudes to the issues of politics, philosophy and economics, but they have a lot of common features as well, which may allow them gaining the global leadership in international economic relations. The author emphasizes the great importance of BRICS economies that are at the stage of dynamic development and dominate in the global dimension of economic growth. The author pays special attention not only to the geopolitical and economic prospects of BRICS but to the determination of their interrelation with the progress in the human development of the member countries as well. The paper shows that the BRICS countries are characterized both by similar and opposite peculiarities and challenges of economic development. The author considered factual data of the progress and financing of socio-economic potential of the BRICS countries, which prove the asymmetry between them both in the trends of external economic development in the quantitative and qualitative aspects and in the priority areas of its intensification. The paper analyzes the regularities that led to the formation of BRICS – the advanced international organization – as the new center of geo-economic impact. The author described the global economy trends that led to the emergence of the first newly industrialized countries and became the foundation for the BRICS formation. The author also considers the unique features of the BRICS bloc formation separating it from other blocs and describes both the features and the goals that unite BRICS countries and the factors that create obstacles for their cooperative development.

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Rentier Middle Power in Pursuit of Global Leadership of the Islamic Community

Abstract: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has the appropriate capabilities and systemic impact to be defined as a middle power in the international system. Yet the relevant literature often neglects the KSA due to its actions, which do not follow the expected behavioural or normative patterns of this class of states. The KSA is not an advocate for the liberal-democratic order, and its specific interests often take primacy over seeking alignment with other middle powers. Saudi foreign policy is significantly shaped by its pursuit of a leadership role amongst the Islamic countries, an aspiration that is supported by its vast natural resources. This chapter suggests that the KSA should be categorised as an awkward middle power, due to its atypical behaviour.

Global Security Challenges Proceedings from the First Canada-United States Roundtable on International Security

Abstract: Canada and the United States share a close alliance, a long border, and democratic values, but the two countries do not always have the same views on regional and global security challenges. A group of Canadian and American scholars and practitioners met at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire on 23-24 September 2011 to compare views on four key issues: Is the global institutional order equipped to meet today's threats? Are regional security institutions improving North American security? How different are Canadian and American grand strategies? And by which mechanisms should security threats be assessed and addressed?The organizers of the conference were the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth; the McGiIl- Universite de Montreal Centre for International Peace and Security Studies; and the Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen's University with support from the chair in American politicai and economie studies at the Universite de Montreal; the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada; Fonds quebecois de recherche sur la societe et la culture; and the embassy of Canada in the United States.The papers presented led to a lively and spirited exchange of views on alliance burden- sharing, economic and security integration, cooperation in protecting human rights, security cooperation and peacemaking, China and the challenge of rising powers, and issues of status in international relations. Participants agreed that the international system is being tested by the world economic and financial downturn, continuing challenges in the Middle East and Iran, the rise of China, and major human rights violations by state actors. While questions about the continued leadership role of the US in the international system were raised, most felt that its role will continue and that the international system will evolve to meet the new challenges. The US, however, will seek more burden- sharing and be very judicious about new commitments abroad. Although the US and Canada may disagree on some issues such as the role of the UN and international human rights treaties, common interests bind us, as exemplified by the current focus on perimeter security.This symposium presents a sample of brief pieces that give a sense of the research agendas pursued by conference participants. Like other allies, Canada has a vested interest in the United States' capacity to find the proper balance between global leadership and efficient and legitimate international institutions. In the first article, William Wohlforth, of Dartmouth College, explains why the US must make strong international security institutions an integral part of its own grand strategy. He sees more positive movement in the direction of strengthened security institutions than many critics contend, and gives a few indications as to how the US can play a constructive role in that process. If security institutions are to function adequately, however, all participants have to bear their share of the burden. …