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  Charging the use of global commons

  German Advisory Council on Global Change, 2002

  In this special report, the Council makes recommendations for a politically viable implementation of the concept of global user charges for three specific areas of application:charges on the use of airspace by aviationcharges on the use of the oceans by shipping,payments for non utilisation obligationsThe article recommends:introduction of global user charges in ord
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  Greenwash + 10: The UN's Global Compact, corporate accountability and the Johannesburg Earth Summit

  Corporate Watch, 2002

  Looks at the relationship between the UN and corporations in the context of the forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). In particular the authors focus on the Global Compact, a high profile UN initiative building corporate partnerships based on adherence to key UN principles, and the activities of the BASD, a corporate lobby group.
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  Responses to the challenges of globalisation: a study on the international monetary and financial system and on financing for development

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2002

  Discusses the reform of the international monetary and financial architecture as a response to global financial crises and the issue of financing and promoting development as a means to reduce global inequality.
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  Human rights, religious conflict, and globalization: ultimate values in a new world order

  Management of Social Transformations Clearing House, 1999

  The belief in innate human rights has achieved quasi-religious status in the late-modern world.
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  Foreign direct investment and international agreements: a south perspective

  South Centre, 2001

  The case against an MAI style agreement is stronger now than when the original agreement was dismissed by the OECD.
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  Striking a balance for trade and sustainable development

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  To contribute to sustainable development trade policy must be built from the bottom up through democratic processes that balance the interests of different stakeholders.
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  Localism in Thailand: a study of globalisation and its discontents

  Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1999

  This article indicates that the discontent over perceived negative impacts arising from liberalisation and globalisation need to be more carefully considered.The article finds that:the critiques emanating from non-governmental organisations and social movements are considered to be amongst the most significantan example of a critique of globalisation is localism.
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  Cosmopolitanism and organised violence

  London School of Economics (=British Library for Political and Economic Science (BLPES)), 2000

  In this paper, the author argues for a cosmopolitan political project as a way of responding to the spread of ‘New Wars’.The article finds that:the nation-state system is exhausting itself‘new wars’ is an extreme manifestation of the erosion of the autonomy of the nation-stateglobalisation is a wild process involving interconnectedness and exclusion, integration and fragmentati
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  Women, environment and development: IISD bibliography

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999
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  Global governance & UN reform: IISD bibliography

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999

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