The Reform of the United Nations

The essay on the Reform of the United Nations (published in 2003 – in May from openDemocracy.net in England and in July from Reset in Italy) it is made of a collection of ideas on which Vision is developing the most ambitious of its projects. First meetings on this project took place on October 29 2005 in Bruxelles and on November 22 in London.

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UN quick collection: is there still a future for the UN?

Is there still a future for the UN after the High Level Panel report or should we look beyond traditional institutions to find solutions that seem to be out of reach for current political energies? How important is that institutional reforms are “democratic”? And is there an “international public opinion” that can be realistically involved in a process which seems to be entirely dependent on the good will of a tiny circle of experts and diplomats? Why is it structurally so difficult to reallocate intellectual resources – from the description of problems to identifying solutions – to the questions that globalisation raises? Conceived after two successful seminars at the London School of Economics in London and in Brussels, Vision’s position paper is a starting point for international contributions on the redesign of global governance.

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The High Level Panel Report and the Paradox of Global Governance
Francesco Grillo and Simona Milio, Vision

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What to do about the UN
Daniele Archibugi, Technological Director at the Italian National Research Council, Rome

Imperial Democracy
Parag Khanna, director of Global Governance Initiative of the World Economic Forum near the Brookings Institution, Washington

The Future of UN
Ettore Greco, assistant director of the Institute of International Affairs, Rome

Reforming UN: its staff is the starting point
Gianluca Ansalone, Military Center for Strategic Studies, Rome

Revamping the World Governance System
Vladislav Inozemtsev, Chairman of the Board of Advisors the Global Affairs Journal, Moscow, Sergei Karaganov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Moscow

The Index of Governance
Richard Lawson, psychiatrist and representative of the Green Party in UK

UN High Level Report: A Doctrine of Limited Liability towards Humanity?
Matthews N. Hulbert, researcher at The Foreing Policy Centre, London

Global Public Goods
Sven Biscop, Professor of European Security at the University of Gent, Belgium, Valérie Arnould, Research fellow at Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels

Which Strategies and Functions of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission and Support Office?
Richard Ponzio, doctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford

Pushing the UN to act when it must
Ivo H. Daalder, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, Washington
James Lindsay, vice president and director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York

UNITED NATIONS. IN THE USA ENSLAVEMENT
Daniele Archibugi, Technological Director at the Italian National Research Council, Rome

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