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Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges
Louis Emmerij,
Richard Jolly,
and Thomas G. Weiss
The project's first book and the first study to trace the development
and impact of the UN's most significant ideas in the arena of economic
and social development. It puts forward tentative propositions about
possible lessons from the UN's past efforts to shape ideas and norms
that could be applied to ongoing and future global economic and social
challenges; and it contains a foreword by UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan. There are nine chapters:
- Four powerful ideas and the early years
- Development hits its stride
- Employment creation and basic needs
- UN world conferences and global challenges
- Current orthodoxy, the new social question and
policy alternatives
- The socialist bloc's collapse
- Widening global gaps
- Governance, good governance, and global governance
- Conclusions ø the United Nations and ideas
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