Introduction: In the Midst of Global Power Shifts

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Hendrik W. Ohnesorge
Keyword(s):  
Power Shifts ◽  
Global Power

Building Smarter Organizations

2014 ◽  
pp. 139-182
Author(s):  
Gordon Vala-Webb
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Control Culture ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Power Shifts ◽  
Global Power ◽  
And Control ◽  
Roll Out ◽  
Business Structure

Being a “smart” organization—to learn quickly and apply that learning to making changes—is essential for survival in this age of hyper-competition, global power shifts, and technological change. In “dumb” organizations, the flows of knowledge and idea into and through the organization are limited and slow. Those flows are restricted by the organization’s command-and-control culture, the maze-like organizational and business structure, and limitations imposed by closed communication technology. There are three matching and inter-linked solutions to improve flows: reducing unnecessary complexity, moving to a collaborative culture, and using an Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) technology. The focus of this chapter is a step-by-step approach to justify, design, measure, and roll out an ESN suite.

Institutionalizing Prevention at the UN

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-201
Author(s):  
Cecilia Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Power Shifts ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
State Actors ◽  
A Site

Abstract This article assesses recent UN reforms to enhance the organization’s capacity to prevent violent conflict. These reforms target crucial inefficiencies within the UN that have hampered effective preventive and protection practices in violent conflict and atrocities. The article argues that state actors have viewed the reform process as a site of norm contestation, and negotiations have created an avenue for compromises on the centrality of human rights and political backstopping of UN missions in volatile field contexts that are vital to better prevention and protection outcomes. Contestation by state actors is significant in steering the outcomes of institutional reform as states advance their normative agendas, and seek to integrate these preferences into new institutional structures that are open to negotiation through the reform process. A broad assessment of these reforms confirms the move toward a more pragmatic vision of peace and security in the UN to accommodate global power shifts.

scholarly journals Europe, the End of the West and Global Power Shifts

Global Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Schwarzer
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Power Shifts ◽  
Global Power

scholarly journals Transforming International Cooperation

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Official Development Assistance ◽  
Power Shifts ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Internationale Zusammenarbeit ◽  
Global Partnerships ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The World

The world of international cooperation is in transition. Global power shifts and the rise of populism have made the world multipolar, but not necessarily more multilateral. The traditional North–South aid system is being called into question, while transnational challenges are affecting all countries and require stronger global partnerships. In this context, the graduation of countries from Official Development Assistance (ODA) stands out as a focal topic in connecting current debates. Facilitated by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), this publication sees experts from various sectors and regions share and exchange their views in open dialogues and spotlight texts. They embed ODA graduation in its broader global context, discuss its implications and call for a new partnership based on global goals and knowledge sharing. This collection of thoughts and perspectives will thus hopefully serve as a milestone in the debate on transforming international cooperation.

Book review: Julien Chaisse (Ed.), Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts: Perceptions, Interactions and Lessons

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-537
Author(s):  
Esther Erlings
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Power Shifts ◽  
Global Power

Julien Chaisse (Ed.), Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts: Perceptions, Interactions and Lessons. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, £91.80, 520 pp., ISBN: 9781509933747.

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