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Fifty More Years? Reform And Modernisation Of The Oecd, Richard Woodward Aug 2011

Fifty More Years? Reform And Modernisation Of The Oecd, Richard Woodward

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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is a vital, if frequently unnoticed, cog in the machine of global governance. On the organisation's 50th anniversary, Richard Woodward assesses whether the OECD's reform programme can secure its future in a changing world.


Bridging The Gaps In Global Energy Governance, Ann Florini, Benjamin Sovacool Feb 2011

Bridging The Gaps In Global Energy Governance, Ann Florini, Benjamin Sovacool

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Energy constitutes a rich, but underexplored, arena for global governance scholars and policymakers. The world is currently on an unsustainable and conflict-prone track of volatile and unreliable supply of energy fuels, vulnerable infrastructure, massive environmental degradation, and failure to deliver energy services to an enormous proportion of the global population. Changing to a different path will be a monumental global governance endeavor that will require bridging multiple issue areas, regimes, and policy silos. Meeting that challenge will require a greatly expanded research agenda aimed at understanding the institutions, interests, and concerns that do and could shape global energy governance. In …