Documentation

The list of documents below includes the Final Report of the Workshop and individual contributions submitted by some of the participants:

Report of the Workshop "Glocalisation, World Governance and the Reform of the United Nations"

Piero Bassetti - Opening Address

Hans Blix - Lessons of Iraq?

Hans Blix - Paper sent to the Foreign Minister of Poland

Paolo Pombeni - Reflections on the UN at the turning point of the century

Rehman Sobhan - Globalization and the Challenge to Democracy

Bibliography

The bibliography below is designed to give participants a common basis of information to begin discussing the issues on the agenda of the Turin’s Workshop and to constitute a building block for the constitution of a broader network of exchange.

Seven criteria have been followed in choosing the documents:

1. Relevance to the UN as a system of global and comprehensive management of the world’s most urgent problems

United Nations Millenium Declaration, Resolution adopted by the General Assembly, 18 Sept. 2000, A/RES/55/2

Road Map towards the implementation of the United Nations Millenium Declaration, Report of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly, 56th Session, 6 Sept. 2001, A/56/326

ECOSOC, Implementation of agreed conclusions 2001/1 of the Economic and Social Council on the role of the United Nations in promoting development, particularly with respect to access to and transfer of knowledge and technology, especially information and

Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization to the General Assembly, 58th Session (2003), A/58/1

Implementation of the United Nations Millenium Declaration, Report of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly, 58th Session, 2 Sept. 2003, A/58/323

World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All, 24 Feb. 2004

2. Relevance to process of reforming the institutional management of the UN System and improving its coordination

General Assembly, Operational activities for development: triennial policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system, Report of the Second Committee, 56th Session, 13 Dec. 2001, A/56/562/Add.1

Strengthening of the United Nations: an agenda for further change, Report of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly, 57th Session, 9 Sept. 2002, A/57/387

UN General Assembly, Report to the Second Committee, Sustainable development and international economic cooperation: high-level dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership, 12 Dec 2002, A/57/531/Add.4

Open-ended Working Group of the General Assembly on the integrated and coordinated implementation and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields 

UN General Assembly Resolution, Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields, 3 July 2003, A/RES/57/270 B

Integrated and coordinated implementation of the outcomes of major UN conferences and summits, at national, regional and international levels

Integrated and coordinated follow-up of the outcomes of major UN conferences and summits according to General Assembly resolution 57/270, o.p.2

The consideration of the work of the Plenary of the General Assembly and its Second and Third Committees relevant to the implementation of and follow-up to major UN conferences and summits, including the modalities of reports presented to the General Asse

How to best address the review of the implementation of the outcomes of the major UN conferences and summits, including its format and periodicity

(Note: all four documents above including a wealth of further links to other relevant UN documentation)

3. Relevance to the UN training system, especially the Staff College to train high-ranking Organization staff

Report of the Director of the United Nations System Staff College on its work, activities and accomplishments to the General Assembly, 58th session, 22 August 2003, A/58/305

4. Relevance to the relationship between the United Nations and civil society, including business

High Level Panel on UN-civil society

Note of Panel meeting, 11-12 Dec. 2003, Geneva

Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations-Civil Society Relations, Terms of Reference, Feb 2003

UN System and Civil Society – An inventory and analysis of practices, Background paper, May 2003

Civil Society and Global Governance, Contextual paper prepared by the Panel’s Chairman, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 13 June 2003

The diversity of actors within the UN System (undated)

Strategic Partnership: Challenges and Best Practices in the Management and Governance of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Involving UN and Civil Society Actors, Background paper prepared by Carmen Malena for the Multi-Stakeholder Workshop on Partnerships and UN-Civil Society Relations, Pocantico, New York, February 2004

Strategic Partnership

Role of business in furthering UN aims

The Global Compact (fact sheet)

Cooperation between the United Nations and all Relevant Partners, particularly the Private Sector, Report of the Secretary General to the General Assembly, 56th Session, 9 Oct. 2001, A/56/323

Cooperation between the United Nations and all Relevant Partners

Commission on the Private Sector and Development, Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor, 2 March 2004

UNCTAD, Report of the Secretary-General of UNCTAD on the Outcome of the ‘Partners for Development’ Summit held in Lyon, France, from 9 to 12 Nov 1988, TD/B/EX(20)/2, 27 January 1999 [Note: also covers the role of NGOs in development]

Report of the Secretary-General of UNCTAD on the Outcome of the ‘Partners for Development’ Summit

5. Relevance to the problem of democracy and accountability in the management of global issues

• Danielle Archibugi, David Held (eds), Cosmopolitan Democracy: an Agenda for a New World Order, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995. [an excellent collection of essays analysing the transformation of the inter-state system and the prospects for a cosmopolitan democracy. Also relevant to the ethical aspects of cosmopolitan democracy]
• Richard Falk, On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics (World Order Models Project: Report of the Global Civilization Initiative), Cambridge, Polity Press, 1995. [Particularly relevant to the UN: section on “institutionalising Humane Governance at a Global Level: Reforming (Transforming) the United Nations”, in Chap.7 “In Pursuit of Humane Governance”, pp.223-35]
• David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance, Cambridge, Policy Press, 1995
• David Held, Mathias Koening-Archibugi (eds), Taming Globalization, Frontiers of Governance, Polity Press, 2003, esp. John Gerard Ruggie, “Taking Embedded Liberalism Global: the Corporate Connection”, pp.93-129 ; and David Held, “From Executive to Cosmopolitan Multilateralism”, pp.160-186
• Joseph Nye, John Donahue (eds), Governance in a Globalizing World, Washington, Brookings Institution Press, 2000
• Ian Shapiro, Casiano Hacker-Cordon (eds), Democracy’s Edges, Cambridge University Press, 1999, including Dahl, “Can International Organisations be Democratic?”, David Held, “The Transformation of Political Community: rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization”, Will Kymlicka, “Citizenship in an Era of Globalization”

6. Relevant to the ethical values that found the approach

• David Held, “Law of States, Law Of Peoples: Three Models of Sovereignty”, Legal Theory, 8, No1, 2002, pp.1-44
• John Rawls, Law of Peoples, Harvard University Press, 1999
• Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, New York, A. Knopf, 1999
• Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, Norton

7. Selected studies on the nature and forms of globalisation

• David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt, Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1999, 515 p. [Overarching study on globalisation in its various dimensions and its impact on the state system; few prescriptions, but in-depth analysis of the phenomena]
• J.R. Short, Y.H. Kim, Globalisation and the City, New York, Longman, 1999 [a specific aspect of globalisation, particularly relevant to the “glocal” approach].