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This publication offers a wide-ranging analysis of changing world order at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume discuss various aspects of this transformation...

Effective policies to prevent global warming and climate change are urgently needed by the world community. This publication offers a unique interdisciplinary and multinational response to the...

Since the end of the Cold War, European and East Asian states have enhanced a series of distinct regional and trans-boundary structures and agreements. Through bilateral, multilateral and especially...

This collaborative effort of 20 scholars from around the world represents the first truly comprehensive critical reflection on the contemporary global transformation. It addresses the challenges of...

This publication contains statements and other materials from the past two years, 1998-1999, of debate and dialogue in the Economic and Social Council. The aim is to bring the Organization's work to a...

In this publication, scholars from around the region analyze the impact of globalization on cities in Asia and the Pacific. This collection of essays forms a useful, comprehensive, and ambitious study...

Rich in theoretical and policy perspectives, this publication examines globalization and its spatial manifestations in all major regions of the world. It discusses world cities in terms of the...

The Globalization of Human Rights addresses a set of questions focusing on the justice at the national, regional, and international levels. The examination of these questions is conducted through...

This book examines the socio-political dynamic generated by the environment and its attendant resources: how nature becomes a resource, and how this process in turn shapes our vision of society. It...

In this publication, a more comprehensive international regime for the post-Kyoto Protocol world is pursued, based on the experience obtained from the first commitment period set forth in the protocol...

Debates on green growth and environmental governance tend to be general in nature, and are often conceptual or limited to single disciplines – such as green growth being dominated by economists and...

This publication discusses the political economy of the conflict that took place in Guinea-Bissau in 1998, the difficulties in negotiating its end, and the tasks that now face donors and national...

Heads Up! provides a useful review of early warning systems in operation today, while exploring a range of hazards including hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, tsunami and volcanoes. With...

Health Status and Health Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa discusses the main changes in infant, child and maternal mortality which have occurred over the period 1960-1995. It also analyses the main...

Throughout history, communicable diseases have weakened the capacity of state institutions to perform core security functions, which compelled many African countries to initiate policies aimed at...

Popular understanding of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is riddled with contradiction and speculation. This is revealed in the present publication, which explores the various contexts in...

The new millennium sees humankind living in a vastly more complex, inter-linked, and mutually dependent world. There are increasing numbers of actors in world affairs today, as private and public non...

Threats to human security do not necessarily take cataclysmic forms such as war or natural disaster. Nor does human insecurity exist solely within a suspended living environment like refugee camps...