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April 7, 2009 | Global Governance in 2020

Memo 14: The challenges faced in an increasingly globalized world demand a change in the approach required to tackle them. The current economic crisis has shown that no one country alone can solve the world’s problems. The “superpower” age is now at an end, and the world must adapt accordingly.

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April 7, 2009 | Global Governance in 2020: Winners Announced!

The Editorial Team: We are proud to announce the four winners of our student op-ed competition, who will each receive US-$ 200! Thank you for your many articles, that presented solid analyses, new viewpoints, and provocative arguments, on issues ranging from the reorganization of the global financial system to the establishment of an international human rights regime.

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March 16, 2009 | Security is Central to Global Governance

Johannes Gunesch: The lack of a commonly accepted global approach means that alternative regional approaches outside of traditional organizations such as the UN will become more common.

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March 16, 2009 | Regional Organizations Will Gain New Powers

Kyle Robert Coppin: In the future, nations will devolve into smaller, homogenous states that are united into regional organizations that take on responsibilities of foreign affairs, national defense, and others.

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March 12, 2009 | Governance and Science: The Emerging Fourth Sector

Noah Chutz: Structures of global governance are too clumsy to effectively respond to the challenges of climate change. The international community and the private sector will continue to operate in an uncoordinated and self-interested manner. Only science, a new fourth sector, can rescue the planet from its impending peril.

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March 5, 2009 | Things Can Only Get Better: Meeting the Challenges of Global Governance

Jacob Comenetz: The key to a future of successful global governance is to embrace the trends towards regionalization and transgovernmentalism, and work constructively to support and develop the evolution of structures corresponding to these paradigms.

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March 4, 2009 | UN Minimum Standards are Key to Global Governance Processes

Jörg Gundelfinger: In 2020 global governance will be increasingly non-institutionally driven and most actors in these processes will act for their own benefit. This is problematic and cannot solve the major problems of our world. We need the UN to control global governance concerning power imbalances.

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February 25, 2009 | NATO to Lead the War on Terror

Yasser Abumuailek: If NATO applies global governance principles, it will be able to become the global leader in combating terrorism. Its military expertise and success in security provision, a sense of global legitimacy and its civilian-military approach to security promise success.

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February 24, 2009 | The Longevity of the UNSC Will Depend on Successful Democratization

Kay-Michael Dankl: If the UNSC is to maintain its international legitimacy specific procedural features should be reformed, and the principle of equity of states should be strengthened.

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February 17, 2009 | Non-State Actors vs. the Westphalian Model

Niketa Kumar: Global governance will introduce a range of actors beyond the Westphalian state and will be based on interconnectedness. In the governing globally model the traditional nation-state will remain in control and formulate policy responding to global interactions.

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February 17, 2009 | Globalized Decision-Making Demands New Acting Styles

John Dalziel Frew: The trend that will define the future of global governance is the globalization of decision-making: when decisions made in one place increasingly affect the lives of those living in another, hopes of security rest on recognising the far-reaching consequences of apparently parochial actions.

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February 15, 2009 | The Legacy of the Financial Crisis Awaits Us in 2020

Soyen Park: The financial crisis will bring about critical changes to the global order. New markets will emerge, the ECB may disappear, and leading financial institutions may become obsolete. Whatever the case, prudent, coordinated government policy is imperative.

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February 13, 2009 | Reining in the Nation State

Mansur Seddiqzai: Nation states threaten to only further dominate local and regional organizations in the future. A decentralized system of global governance which incorporates regional associations is required if disorder and crises are to be prevented.

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February 10, 2009 | Global Governance in 2020: The Return of the State

Tobias Weise: The major players in global governance in the years to come will be state actors. They can only be effective if their decisions are monitored and regulated by international institutions.

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January 27, 2009 | A Multidimensional Approach for a Planet in Peril

Scott Michael Moore: The complex global environmental challenges of today require a multidimensional approach to environmental governance, one that engages all nations and levels of government and society.

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January 26, 2009 | Human Rights: A Matter of Guiding the Invisible Hand

Alyssa M. Ramsey: The international community of wealthy democracies must focus its efforts on molding the global economy so that it becomes the driving force behind the proliferation of respect for human rights.

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January 23, 2009 | Action On Climate Change Requires Global Technology Transfer

Sam Vanderslott: Successful technology transfer is at the heart of finding a viable solution to the climate change challenge. Powerful private sector interests must be overcome in order to allow co-operation between developed and developing nations.

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January 23, 2009 | Political Liberalism At the Heart of International Trade

Scott Edward Hartley: The relationship between economic and political liberalism is central to sealing the fate of the international economy. If global trade is to flourish, the free exchange of ideas must be promoted and presided over by international organizations in order to countermand myopic trade policies.

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January 22, 2009 | Socioecological Innovation: an Alternative Future

Jordan Levine: As populations increase and resources become scarcer, international relations stand to deteriorate. World leaders must combine global trade liberalization with data on the relationship between ecosystem function and human well-being. Mandatory life-cycle assessments are the best way of doing this.

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January 22, 2009 | Unipolarity's Days Are Numbered

Yam Ki Chan: The era of US unipolarity is coming to an end. The international order is heading towards multipolarity or non-polarity. To manage the upcoming challenges, the UN Security Council, and particularly the US, must take leadership to strengthen the United Nations and increase financial interdependence.

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