Download or read book Intergovernmental Organization for Planning written by University of Oregon. Bureau of Governmental Research and Service and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intergovernmental Organization for Planning written by University of Oregon. Bureau of Governmental Research and Service and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book International Planning Organizations written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Management and Governance of Intergovernmental Organizations written by Ryan Federo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) after their creation has remained in mystery over the years. Although the current globalized outlook has sparked new and growing interests on the role that IGOs play in the global landscape, the scholarship has largely focused on the political aspects of cooperation, primarily on how and why different IGO member states interact with each other and the outcomes associated with such cooperation. Research is yet to untangle how these organizations work and operate. This Element addresses this niche in the literature by delving into two important aspects: the management and governance of IGOs. We build on a four-year research program where we have collected three types of different data and produced several papers. Ultimately, the Element seeks to provide scholars with a description of the inner workings of IGOs, while providing guidance to policymakers on how to manage and govern them.

Download or read book Governmental Structure Organization and Planning in Metropolitan Areas written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intergovernmental Cooperation written by Erich Schmidtke and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discovering American Regionalism written by David Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regions are difficult to govern – coordinating policies across local jurisdictional boundaries in the absence of a formal regional government gives rise to enormous challenges. Yet some degree of coordination is almost always essential for local governments to effectively fulfill their responsibilities to their citizens. State and local governments have, over time, awkwardly, and with much experimenting, developed common approaches to regional governance. In this revolutionary new book, authors David Miller and Jen Nelles offer a new way to conceptualize those common approaches: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) that bring together local governments to coordinate policies across jurisdictional boundaries. RIGOs are not governments themselves, but as Miller and Nelles demonstrate, they do have a measure of political authority that allows them to quietly and sometimes almost invisibly work to further regional interests and mitigate cross-boundary irritations. Providing a new conceptual framework for understanding how regional decision-making has emerged in the U.S., this book will provoke a new and rich era of discussion about American regionalism in theory and practice. Discovering American Regionalism will be a future classic in the study of intergovernmental relations, regionalism, and cross-boundary collaboration.

Download or read book To Reform the World written by Guy Fiti Sinclair and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores how international organizations (IOs) have expanded their powers over time without formally amending their founding treaties. IOs intervene in military, financial, economic, political, social, and cultural affairs, and increasingly take on roles not explicitly assigned to them by law. The proposed book will contend that this 'mission creep' has allowed IOs to intervene internationally, most often in the Global South, in a way that has allowed them to recast institutions within and interactions among states, societies, and peoples on a broadly Western, liberal model. Adopting a historical and interdisciplinary, socio-legal approach, it supports this claim through detailed investigations of historical episodes involving three very different organizations: the International Labour Organization in the interwar period; the United Nations in the two decades following the Second World War; and the World Bank from the 1950s through to the 1990s. The book draws on a wide range of original institutional and archival materials, bringing to light little-known aspects of each organization's activities, identifying continuities in the ideas and practices of international governance across the twentieth century, and speaking to a range of pressing theoretical questions in present-day international law and international relations --Front flap of the book.

Download or read book International Organizations written by Alvin LeRoy Bennett and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface p. IX Chapter 1 Introduction p. 1 The Role of International Organizations in Today's World p. 2 Intellectual Roots of International Organization p. 4 Early Organizational Efforts p. 9 International Relations, Globalization, and Global Governance p. 13 International Organization and Governance in a Turbulent Time p. 24 Chapter 2 A Great Experiment: The League of Nations p. 27 Founding of the League of Nations p. 28 Essential Features of the League p. 30 Successes and Failures of the League of Nations p. 38 General Assessment of the League of Nations p. 43 Chapter 3 The Genesis of the United Nations p. 46 Preliminary Stages of Postwar Planning p. 47 The Dumbarton Oaks Conversations p. 51 From Yalta to San Francisco p. 52 The San Francisco Conference p. 54 Launching the New Organization p. 57 Chapter 4 Basic Principles and Organization of the United Nations p. 59 Objectives of the United Nations p. 60 Basic Principles of the Charter p. 61 Principal Organs of the United Nations p. 65 Chapter 5 Basic Structure and Operations of the United Nations p. 80 The Membership Issue p. 80 Problems of Representation p. 85 Voting Rules and Practices p. 91 Formal and Informal Charter Amendment p. 96 Financial Problems p. 98 Chapter 6 Peaceful Settlement of Disputes p. 107 Importance of Peaceful Settlement p. 107 Charter Procedures and Methods p. 108 United Nations Experience--Survey and Case Studies p. 113 Changing Roles of UN Organs p. 139 General Appraisal and Future Requirements p. 142 Chapter 7 Collective Security and its Alternatives: Theory and Practice p. 145 The Nature of Collective Security p. 145 The League of Nations and Collective Security p. 149 Charter Provisions and Realities p. 151 Peacekeeping Innovations p. 156 Case Studies in Collective Security and Peacekeeping p. 163 General Assessment of UN Practice p. 175 Chapter 8 The Search for Justice under Law p. 178 Law in National and International Systems p. 179 Legal Developments before 1945 p. 182 The Charter as an Instrument of International Law p. 183 The Role of the International Court of Justice p. 186 The Role of the International Law Commission p. 201 Newly Established International Criminal Courts p. 204 Other Agencies Promoting World Law p. 205 Assessing Our Progress p. 209 Chapter 9 Controlling the Instruments of War p. 212 Disarmament: A Discouraging History p. 213 Disarmament and Arms Control after World War II p. 216 Continued Frustrations Within and Outside the United Nations p. 218 Arms Control--One Step at a Time p. 221 The Need for Control p. 234 Chapter 10 Varieties of Regionalism p. 236 The Pros and Cons of Regionalism p. 236 Regionalism under the UN Charter p. 239 Multipurpose Regional Organizations p. 244 Regional Security Organizations p. 256 Functional Regional Organizations p. 262 UN Regional Commissions p. 270 General Assessment of Regionalism p. 272 Chapter 11 Globalization, Transnationalism, and International Organization p. 274 Perspectives p. 274 The Multinational Corporation p. 277 Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Relations p. 282 Transnationalism and Civil Society p. 290 Conclusion p. 295 Chapter 12 Promoting Economic Welfare p. 297 World Economic Interdependence p. 298 The UN Network of Agencies p. 305 Problems of Economic Development p. 309 Development Programs of the United Nations p. 312 Financing Economic Development p. 322 Rich Nations and Poor Nations p. 326 A Perspective on the Future p. 328 Chapter 13 Managing Global Resources p. 331 Food and Agriculture p. 331 Population p. 337 Energy p. 340 Environment p. 343 Law of the Sea p. 350 Chapter 14 Promoting Social Progress p. 358 Charter Goals and World Needs p. 358 Promoting Improved Health Standards p. 361 Focus on Child Welfare and Youth p. 364 The Question of Aging p. 366 Improving Conditions of Labor p. 368 Cooperation in Education, Science, and Culture p. 372 Combating Narcotic Drugs and Crime p. 376 Refugee Programs and Disaster Relief p. 379 Assessing Social Progress p. 382 Chapter 15 Human Rights and the Struggle for Self-Government p. 384 The League Mandates System p. 385 Rush to Self-Government p. 387 The UN Trusteeship System p. 389 The Record of Trusteeship p. 392 The Charter and Non-self-governing Territories p. 396 Increasing Pressures for Emancipation p. 398 Problems of Residual Colonialism p. 400 Problems after Political Independence p. 400 Emphasis on Human Rights p. 401 Chapter 16 International Administration and the Search for Leadership p. 412 The Development of the International Civil Service p. 412 The International Civil Servant in the United Nations p. 416 The Role of the Secretariat p. 421 Tasks and Influences of the Secretary-General p. 424 Bases of Influence and Leadership p. 434 The Need for International Leadership p. 437 Chapter 17 International Organization in Retrospect and Prospect p. 439 Sources of Discouragement p. 440 Summary of Achievements p. 442 Future Needs and Prospects p. 447 Bibliography p. 451 General Sources p. 451 Selected Bibliography by Chapters p. 452 Appendix I Covenant of the League of Nations p. 462 Appendix II Charter of the United Nations p. 472 Appendix III Members of the United Nations p. 498 Index p. 503.

Download or read book Higher Education to 2030 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographic changes increasingly shape social policies as most OECD populations are aging and include more migrants and minorities. Japan and Korea have already started to see their enrollments in tertiary education decline, but other countries like Turkey and Mexico can still expect a boom. Drawing on trend data and projections, volume 1 takes a look at these important questions from both a qualitative and quantitative standpoint. Issues covered include the impact of demographic changes on student enrollment, educational attainment, academic staff and policy choices. Particular attention is given to how access policies determine the demographics of tertiary education, notably by examining access to higher education for disabled and migrant students. The book covers most OECD countries, illustrating the analysis with specific examples from France, Japan, Korea and the United States. Volumes 2 and 3 examine the effects of technology and globalization, and volume 4 presents scenarios for the future of higher education systems.--Publisher's description.

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Download or read book International Organizations and Small States written by Jack Corbett and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Organizations (IOs) are vital institutions in world politics in which cross-border issues can be discussed and global problems managed. This path-breaking book shows the efforts that small states have made to participate more fully in IO activities. It draws attention to the challenges created by widened participation in IOs and develops an original model of the dilemmas that both IOs and small states face as the norms of sovereign equality and the right to develop coincide. Drawing on extensive qualitative data, including more than 80 interviews conducted for this book, the authors find that the strategies which both IOs and small states adopt to balance their respective dilemmas can explain both continuity and change in their interactions with institutions ranging from UN agencies to the World Trade Organization.

Download or read book Cities and Complexity written by Karen S. Christensen and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planners hate uncertainty. The objective of their work is to devise a course of action that will reduce uncertainty on a public scale. However, complicated intergovernmental systems often make their work complex and difficult. The planning profession is founded in quandries: How can we know the future? What is the public interest? How can we know which values are right? What is the relationship between means and ends? This book addresses the mismatch between the assumptions of planning and the actual operations of the intergovernmental system Basing her work not only on empirical research but on years of personal experience in complex governmental agencies (specifically HUD), Karen Stromme Christensen presents a new theory of the underlying structure and dynamics of the U.S. intergovernmental system. It is designed to help planners and policy makers clarify the obstacles to effective action on behalf of the public good. Moreover, it suggests ways to preserve and restore the strengths of federalism and to adjust aspects that have become counterproductive.

Download or read book A Theory of International Organization written by Liesbet Hooghe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do international organizations (IOs) look so different, yet so similar? The possibilities are diverse. Some international organizations have just a few member states, while others span the globe. Some are targeted at a specific problem, while others have policy portfolios as broad as national states. Some are run almost entirely by their member states, while others have independent courts, secretariats, and parliaments. Variation among international organizations appears as wide as that among states. This book explains the design and development of international organization in the postwar period. It theorizes that the basic set up of an IO responds to two forces: the functional impetus to tackle problems that spill beyond national borders and a desire for self-rule that can dampen cooperation where transnational community is thin. The book reveals both the causal power of functionalist pressures and the extent to which nationalism constrains the willingness of member states to engage in incomplete contracting. The implications of postfunctionalist theory for an IO's membership, policy portfolio, contractual specificity, and authoritative competences are tested using annual data for 76 IOs for 1950-2010. Transformations in Governance is a major academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states up to supranational institutions, down to subnational governments, and side-ways to public-private networks. It brings together work that significantly advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series targets mainly single-authored or co-authored work, but it is pluralistic in terms of disciplinary specialization, research design, method, and geographical scope. Case studies as well as comparative studies, historical as well as contemporary studies, and studies with a national, regional, or international focus are all central to its aims. Authors use qualitative, quantitative, formal modeling, or mixed methods. A trade mark of the books is that they combine scholarly rigour with readable prose and an attractive production style. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the VU Amsterdam, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.

Download or read book Governmental Structure Organization and Planning in Metropolitian Areas written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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