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Book Synopsis Public concern about inequitable economic globalization has revealed the demand for citizen participation in global decision making. Civil society organizations have taken up the challenge, holding governments and corporations accountable for their decisions and actions, and developing collaborative solutions to the dominant problems of our time. Critical Mass: The Emergence of Global Civil Society offers a unique mixture of experience and analysis by the leaders of some of the most influential global civil society organizations and respected academics who specialize in this field of study. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation Trade Review"If the ideals of worldwide justice and equity are ever to be realized, if our planet and its people are ever to be rescued from shortsightedness and greed, it will only be through the workings of a vibrant international civil society. This groundbreaking book neither exaggerates the promise of such society nor underestimates its problems. Instead, by combining the insights of academics and activists and drawing upon both theory and cases, it illuminates a field of study only beginning to be mined. Both those of us who toil in civil society organizations and those who are affected by them have reason to be grateful." -- William F. Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, and former Executive Director, Amnesty International USA -- 200801Table of Contents Critical Mass: The Emergence of Global Civil Society, edited by James W. St.G. Walker and Andrew S. Thompson List of Acronyms Preface John English Acknowledgments Introduction James W. St.G. Walker and Andrew S. Thompson Overview and Theory The Globalization of Civil Society John D. Clark Approaching Global Civil Society Paul van Seters Case Studies The Conference of NGOs (CONGO): The Story of Strengthening Civil Society Engagement with the United Nations Renate Bloem, Isolda Agazzi Ben Attia, and Philippe Dam Amplifying Voices from the Global South: Globalizing Civil Society Rajesh Tandon and Mohini Kak Facilitating NGO Participation: An Assessment of the Government-Sponsored Mechanism for the Copenhagen Summit for Social Development and the Beijing Conference on Women Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon The Arab NGO Network for Development: A Case Study on Interaction between Emerging Regional Networking and Global Civil Society Ziad Abdel Samad and Kinda Mohamadieh A Case of NGO Participation: International Criminal Court Negotiations Gina E. Hill Influencing the IMF Jo Marie Griesgraber Civil Society, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict Prevention Virginia Haufler The FIM G8 Project, 2002-2006: A Case Analysis of a Project to Initiate Civil Society Engagement with the G8 Nigel T. Martin Problems and Prospects Laying the Groundwork: Considerations for a Charter for a Proposed Global Civil Society Forum Andrew S. Thompson Looking to the Future: A Global Civil Society Forum? Jan Aart Scholte Democratizing Global Governance: Achieving Goals while Aspiring to Free and Equal Communication Martin Albrow and Fiona Holland Notes on the Contributors Index Contributors Isolda Agazzi Ben Attia is Senior Program Officer for the Conference of NGOs (CONGO). Isolda holds a masters degree in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (IUHEI) of Geneva. She has worked for more than ten years in the field of development co-operation, for bi- and multilateral donor agencies, an academic research institute, and NGOs, in Switzerland and on the field, covering socio-economic development and good governance issues. She joined CONGO in 2002, and since 2004 she has also been a lecturer in international law at the University of Calabria (Italy). Martin Albrow is a sociologist whose books include Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory, Do Organizations Have Feelings, Sociology: The Basics, and the prize-winning The Global Age. Formerly he was founding editor of the journal International Sociology, president of the British Sociological Association, and chair of the Sociology Panel for the British universities' Research Assessment Exercise. Emeritus professor of the University of Wales, he is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance in London and an editor in chief of Global Civil Society, 2006/7. Renate Bloem completed her studies in medicine, languages, and literature at the Universities of Bonn, Munich, and Columbia University and started her academic career by teaching at international schools and cultural institutions worldwide. Elected president of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) in November 2000 and re-elected in December 2003,she has been involved in numerous UN meetings, led CONGO delegations to the World Conference against Racism, to the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Through the CONGO Working Group on Asia she has organized the Asian Civil Society Forum 2002 and 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand, and, together with Latin American NGO networks, the NGO Seminar in Santiago, Chile. Most recently, together with Board member FEMNET, she organized the African Civil Society Forum in Addis Ababa. Together with the CONGO Team she has been at the forefront of guiding, supporting, and coordinating civil society in the processes of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva and Tunis. John D. Clark has worked with development NGOs, the World Bank, United Nations, universities, and as advisor to governments on development and civil society issues. His career has focused on poverty reduction, participation, civil society, globalization, and bridging the gap between grassroots organizations and official agencies. He is currently Lead Social Development Specialist for East Asia in the World Bank. He has focused particularly on governance, poverty, and civil society issues in Cambodia and Indonesia and spent eight months in Aceh, Indonesia, working on tsunami reconstruction, especially regarding donor coordination. Before that he took a four-year absence from the World Bank, during which he worked in the United Nations Secretary-General's office (as project director for the high-level panel on UNcivil society relations), was Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, and served on a task force advising the British prime minister about Africa. He also wrote Worlds Apart: Civil Society and the Battle for Ethical Globalization, published by Kumarian in the US and Earthscan in the UK in 2003. He joined the World Bank in 1992 to head its NGO/Civil Society Unit-leading the Banks global strategy for collaboration and dialogue with civil society. In 1998 he moved to the East Asia region, in particular to help address the social aspects of the Asian economic crisis. Before 1992 he worked in NGOs for eighteen years, mostly with Oxfam UK, where he was head of campaigns and policy. He is the author of four other books, including Democratizing Development: The Role of Voluntary Organizations (1991). Philippe Dam is the associate program officer for the Conference of NGOs (CONGO). Philippe studied administration and public law at Sciences-Po Rennes (France) and holds a master's degree in international administration from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He worked for various agencies within the UN system in Turin, Paris, and Geneva and joined CONGO in December 2004 to work on human rights and WSIS programs. John English is the executive director of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and University Research Professor at the University of Waterloo. He is a former president of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, past chair of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and served as a Canadian member of parliament. Jo Marie Griesgraber is the executive director of the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, a Washington-based international network of activists and researchers concerned with reforms of the international financial architecture. Previously, Dr. Griesgraber was the director of policy at Oxfam America, where she supervised advocacy programs on international trade, humanitarian response, global funding for basic education, and extractive industries. Before that, she directed the Rethinking Bretton Woods Project at the Centre of Concern, a Jesuit-related social justice research centre, where she worked on reform of the World Bank, regional development banks, and the International Monetary Fund. She has taught political science at Georgetown University, Goucher College, and American University, and was the deputy director of the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights lobby office. She chaired Jubilee 2000/USA's executive committee and edited, with Bernhard Gunter, the five-volume Rethinking Bretton Woods series. Ms. Griesgraber received her PhD in political science from Georgetown University and her B.A. in history from the University of Dayton, Ohio. Virginia Haufler (PhD, Cornell, 1991) is an associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. She is an expert in the fields of international relations, international political economy, and business and world politics. From 1999 to 2000, Dr. Haufler was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she directed a program on the role of the private sector in international affairs. She serves as a board member of Women in International Security (WIIS) and is on the advisory committee of the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt. She recently co-authored the UN Global Compact report Enabling Economies of Peace: Public Policy for Corporate Conflict-Sensitive Practices. Among her other publications are A Public Role for the Private Sector: Industry Self-Regulation in a Global Economy (2001); “Is There a Role for Business in Conflict Management?” in Turbulent Peace (eds. Crocker, Hampson, and Aall, 2001); Private Authority and International Affairs (co-edited with Cutler and Port, 1999); and Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk (1997). Gina E. Hill has been a human rights activist since 1993 and was called to the Bar in 2001. Her areas ofspecialization are international human rights and non-governmental organizations. Currently completing her LL.D. at the University of Ottawa, Ms. Hill's research examines the cases of the Ottawa Process for a Landmines Treaty and the negotiations for the International Criminal Court. Ms. Hill is president of the board of directors of Amnesty International Canada. She has lived, studied, and worked in six countries and speaks five languages fluently. Fiona Holland is managing editor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook at the London School of Economics' Centre for the Study of Global Governance. Prior to joining LSE, where she completed a master's degree in development studies in 1999, she was editor of Orbit, which in 2001 won “best magazine” in the One World Media Awards, the most respected prize for international development coverage in the UK. In addition to various editing and reporting roles in Asia and the UK, Fiona has project-managed public awareness campaigns and curated photographic exhibitions on cultural exchange, Northern perceptions and portrayals of developing countries, and the notion of global risk. Currently she is working on an exhibition of political cartoons, linked to the forthcoming publication of Global Civil Society 2007/8, and collaborating on a multi-pronged initiative exploring sexuality and intimacy. Mohini Kak is a practitioner scholar with the experience of working on issues of local self-governance, civil society building, and women's empowerment. She is an integral part of the Systematization of Knowledge team of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA). She holds a master's in social work with a specialization in urban and rural community development from the Tata Institute for Social Sciences, and her first attempt at bridging the world of a practitioner and an academician came in 2006 when she presented a paper at the 4th International Conference on Citizenship and Participation in Jaipur, India, based on her experience of working on the issue of civil society and local self-governance in the State of Himachal Pradesh, India. She has also worked on issues relating to gender and development. She is co-editor of Citizen Participation and Democratic Governance: In Our Hands, published by Concept Publications in February 2007. Nigel T. Martin is the founding president of the Montreal International Forum (FIM), an international NGO think tank based in Montreal. FIM is a global alliance of individuals and organizations with the goal of improving the influence of international civil society on the United Nations and the multilateral system. A graduate of Mount Allison University, Mr. Martin has over thirty years experience in the NGO community in Canada and elsewhere and has been the executive director of several NGOs. These include the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) in Ottawa, Euro Action Accord in London (UK), and OCSD and Oxfam-Québec in Montreal. He began his career with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in 1971, where he was one of the earliest staff members of the then-fledgling NGO program. Before leaving the government in 1975 for a career in the NGO sector, he was the director of Asia programming for the CIDA NGO division. Mr. Martin was the initiator and founding co-president of the original World Bank/NGO Committee. He has served on several boards of directors and is currently on the boards of the Carold Foundation in Toronto. He is also a founding board member of The Mothers' Trust. Kinda Mohamadieh serves as the program manager at the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND). ANND brings together twenty-seven NGOs and seven national networks from eleven Arab countries active in the fields of social development, human rights, gender, and the environment.The network aims to develop the capacity of Arab civil society organizations and promoting democracy, human rights, participation, and good governance within civil society and among governments. The networks' programs focus on issues of development, mainly the Millennium Development Goals; democracy and human rights; and the socio-economic impact of trade liberalization in the Arab region. Miss Mohamadieh has academic training in economics at the undergraduate level and in international development and non-profit management at the graduate level. Throughout her work at ANND, she concentrated on trade and globalization issues and capacity building of civil society organizations in relation to the work being done within the scope of the World Trade Organization, Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, bilateral free trade agreements, and regional economic integration. She participated in writing several papers concerning the role and the challenges of civil society organizations in the Arab region, particularly in the above-mentioned fields of ANND's concern. Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon is a professor of international relations and former chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. Her publications include five books, Canada and the Beijing Conference on Women: Governmental Politics and NGO Participation (author, 2001), The State of the United Nations, 1993: North-South Perspectives (co-author, 1993), International Relations in the Post-Cold War Era (co-editor, 1993), Canada and the International Seabed: Domestic Determinants and External Constraints (author, 1989), and The Domestic Mosaic: Interest Groups and Canadian Foreign Policy (author, 1985), as well as articles in Global Governance, the International Social Science Journal, Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Journal, Canadian Foreign Policy, Journal of Comparative and Commonwealth Politics, and Journal of Estuarine and Coastal Law. She is currently on the board of directors of the London Museum of Ontario Archaeology. She has served on the executive board of the Canadian Political Science Association (2005-2006), board of directors of the Canadian Political Science Association (2004-2006), and the editorial board of Canadian Foreign Policy (1993-2005). She was co-director of the Summer Workshop Program of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (2004-2005), chair of the Academic Committee of the Board of Directors of the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Centre (1998-2003), chair of the International Organization Section of International Studies Association (1998-2003), and vice-president of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (1991-1993). Ziad Abdel Samad is the executive director of the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), based in Beirut, since 1999. ANND brings together twenty-seven NGOs and seven national networks from eleven Arab countries active in the fields of social development, human rights, gender, and the environment. The network, established in 1997, focuses on developing the capacity of Arab civil society organizations and promoting democracy, human rights, participation, and good governance in civil society and among governments. It has been an active participant in a number of United Nations conferences, WTO negotiations, and the World Social Forum. Mr. Abdel Samad is a member of the Lebanese Negotiating Committee for the accession in the WTO. He sits on the International Council of the World Social Forum and the Coordination Committee of Social Watch, an international network of citizen coalitions that monitors the implementation of the commitments made at the 1995 World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen. Mr. Abdel Samad is a member of the board of directors of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. He is a member of the UNDP CSO Advisory Committee to the Administrator. Mr. Abdel Samad is general manager of the Centre for Developmental Studies (MADA), a Lebanese centre for social and economic studies and research. Jan Aart Scholte is professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick. He held previous posts at the University of Sussex, Brighton, and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, as well as visiting positions at Cornell University, the London School of Economics, the International Monetary Fund, the Moscow School of Economics, and Gothenburg University. He is author of Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005, 2nd edition), Civil Society and Global Democracy (Polity, forthcoming), and International Relations of Social Change (Open University Press, 1993); co-author of Contesting Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2000); editor of Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance (forthcoming), and Civil Society and Global Finance (Routledge, 2002); co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of Globalization (Routledge, 2006); and author of some 100 articles, chapters, and working papers. He is also an editor of the journal Global Governance. His current research focuses on questions of governing a more global world, with particular emphasis on questions of building global democracy. Rajesh Tandon is president of PRIA (Society for Participatory Research in Asia). He was co-founder of PRIA in 1982 following his tenure as Fellow, Public Enterprise Centre for Continuing Education, New Delhi. Over the last twenty-five years, Dr. Tandon has been a practitioner of participatory research and development and become an internationally acclaimed leader in the area. His work has been, over a wide variety of themes, to strengthen the capacities and institutional mechanisms of voluntary development organizations in India and other developing nations. He specializes in development management; training of trainers in participatory monitoring; networking, coalition and alliance building; participation and governance. He is the chair on the board of many national and international civil society organizations and part of the founding board of directors of CIVICUS. He is also chair of Montreal International Forum (FIM). He has authored many books and articles on civil society and governance. He was recently awarded a Social Justice medal by the Institute of Gender Justice and NALSA, Department of Law & Justice, Government of India, on the International Womens Day, 2007. Andrew S. Thompson is a Special Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Canada. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Waterloo, and his areas of specialization include human rights and international governance. He has written a number of book chapters and is co-editor of Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006). He has also written reports for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, the United Nations University Press, the Canadian International Council, and the Centre for Foreign Policy and Federalism. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, he worked for Amnesty Internationals Canadian Section in Ottawa, and in 2004 he represented the organization as a member of a human rights lobbying and fact-finding mission to Haiti. Paul van Seters studied law at Utrecht University and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently he is the director of Globus and a professor of globalization and sustainable development at TiasNimbas Business School at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Previously he was a professor of legal sociology in the Faculty of Law at Tilburg University. He has published articles and books on socio-legal theory, public administration, and cultural sociology. His current research interests include law and communitarianism, corporate social responsibility, and the global civil society. He is co-editor of Globalization and Its New Divides (2003) and editor of Communitarianism in Law and Society (2006). James W. St.G. Walker is a professor of history at the University of Waterloo, where he specializes in the history of human rights and race relations. In 2003-2004 he was the Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research. His books include The Black Loyalists (2nd edition, 1992), and Race, Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada (Osgoode Society and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997), and he has published numerous articles and book chapters analyzing campaigns for human rights reform. Walker has himself been intimately involved with civil society over the years. In the 1960s he served as a CUSO volunteer in a Gandhian Ashram in the state of Orissa in India, where he participated in community development projects, and later worked on the CUSO national staff in Ottawa. He was a founder and teacher in the Transition Year Program for African-Canadian and First Nations students at Dalhousie University, and a founder and long-time board member of the Global Community Centre of Kitchener-Waterloo. He has served on the boards of several NGOs with an international focus, including CUSO and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

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Book Synopsis From Civil Strife to Peace Building examines peace-building efforts in the fragile West African states of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire, with a focus on the role of the private sector in leading the reconstruction initiatives. Given that aid and debt relief, the traditional remedies for dependency and underdevelopment, have not been effective, the private sector is increasingly viewed as a major player in the revival of regional economies. Private sector support, however, requires government intervention to improve investment climates, curb corruption, strengthen the security sector, and reduce the cost of doing business. The contributors discuss ways in which West African governments can encourage the greater involvement of business in humanitarian support with incentives that demonstrate alignment with business objectives and profit margins, making humanitarian support simple and, more importantly, profitable and sustainable for both local and foreign investors. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)Trade Review"I am certain that those who are working on private-sector reconstruction - not just in Liberia, Côte dIvoire, and Sierra Leone, but in other fragile states as well - will learn from the practices, assessments, and analyses offered by the practitioners and private-sector development experts that this volume brings together." -- Jonathan G. Coppel, Executive Program Manager, NEPAD-OECD Africa InvestmentInitiative (from the Foreword) -- 200911"The success of post-conflict reconstruction operations depends fundamentally on domestic, not external, actions. Similarly key to long-term stability is finding the means to grow the economy and provide jobs, especially for large numbers of young people. Properly harnessed, their energy could offer tremendous development potential, but unemployed and alienated they could be a damaging source of social destabilization. From Civil Strife to Peace Building makes an important and overdue contribution by putting the private sector at the heart of this endeavour, without whose central involvement post-conflict operations are doomed, inevitably, to fail." -- Dr. Greg Mills, Director: The Brenthurst Foundation (2005-), Special Adviser to the Commander: International Security Assistance Force IX,Afghanistan (2006); Strategy Adviser: President of Rwanda (2008) -- 200911Table of Contents From Civil Strife to Peace Building: Examining Private Sector Involvement in West African Reconstruction, edited by Hany Besada List of Figures and Tables Foreward I High Commissioner Darren Schemmer Foreword II Jonathan G. Coppel Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Peacebuilding and the Role of the Private Sector in Post-Conflict West Africa: A Conceptual Framework Hany Besada, Vadim Ermakov, and Miran Ternamian Part I: Côte d'Ivoire 1. From Linas-Marcoussis to the Ouagadougou Political Agreement: The Torturous and Open-Ended Peace Process in Côte d'Ivoire Gilles Yabi and Andrew Goodwin 2. The Politics of Post-Conflict Elections in Côte d'Ivoire Chrysantus Ayangafac 3. Côte d'Ivoire: The Role of the Private Sector in Building a Peace Economy Willene A. Johnson 4. Foreign Investors and International Donor Contributions to Côte d'Ivoire's State-Building Efforts Lydie Boka-Mene and Oren E. Whyche-Shaw Part II: Sierra Leone 5. Breaking with the Past: Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone Ozonnia Ojielo 6. Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: The Role of the UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) Sunday Abogonye Ochoche 7. The Role of the Private Sector in Sierra Leone's Post-Conflict Reconstruction Efforts Emmanuel Nnadozie and Siham Abdulmelik 8. The Role of the Privatization Program as a Catalyst for Economic Reform in Sierra Leone Andrew K. Keili Part III: Liberia 9. State-Building Efforts in Post-Conflict Liberia Sunny Nyemah 10. Security-Sector Reform in Liberia Mark Malan 11. State Building in a Post-Conflict Context: The Liberian Framework for Donor Aid and Private Investments Caroline Khoubesserian 12. Liberia: Building Peace Through Investment-Climate Reform David Bridgman and Robert Krech Afterword Eddy Maloka Recommended Reading Index Contributors Siham Abdulmelik is a consultant working with the NEPAD Support Section at the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Previously, she worked in Sudan in the field of parliamentary development with the Canadian Parliamentary Centre. She was involved in developing the peacebuilding program designed to enhance the capacity of the National Assembly and the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly to support the peace agreements signed and to strengthen the democratic process under way. Her background is in economics and public policy. Her research interests are in African governance mechanisms, institutional capacity building, and post-conflict recovery. Chrysantus (Chris) Ayangafac is a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, Addis Ababa office. His research interest is conflict prevention, management, and resolution in Africa. He is currently researching regional security mechanisms in Africa with a specific interest in the African Peace and Security Architecture. He has published widely on conflict and integration in Africa. His latest publication, as editor, is The Political Economy of Regionalization in Central Africa. He is also a reviewer for the International Journal of Transitional Justice and has done extensive radio and television interviews on conflicts on the continent with radio stations such as SADC Africa, Channel Africa, and Radio Netherlands. Currently he is a Ph.D. student at the University of Witwatersrand, Department of International Relations. His proposed Ph.D. thesis is titled ""The Natural Resources Conflict Nexus: Bringing Back Politics."" Hany Besada is the Senior Researcher and Program Leader of the Health and Social Governance Program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Mr. Besada's research interests include African economic and political development, Middle East studies, international diplomacy, fragile/failed states, private-sector development, and conflict resolution. He holds his M.A. and B.A. in International Relations from Alliant International University in San Diego, where he specialized in peace and security studies. Before joining CIGI, he worked as the Business in Africa Researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to that, he worked as a research manager at Africa Business Direct, a trade and investment consulting firm in Johannesburg. He also worked at a number of non-governmental and governmental research institutes and offices. These included Amnesty International, the Office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, United Nations Associations, and the Joan Kroc Institute of Peace and Justice. Lydie Boka-Mene's background is in international economics and finance (Diplomatische Akademie, Vienna, Austria). She has twenty year's experience in project finance (including agricultural commodities) and management as well as risk analysis. Her employers include USAID, the International Finance Corporation, the African Development Bank, and other financial institutions in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. She is the founder and manager of StrategiCo. (http://www.strategico.org), which specializes in risk analysis in Africa and the Middle East using a methodology designed to capture developing countries' risk. Ms. Boka is a dual citizen of France and Côte d'Ivoire. StrategiCo. clients includes corporate and financial institutions, as well as decision makers from Africa and the Middle East. David Bridgman is the lead expert in private-sector development in the World Bank Group Investment Climate Team for Africa. He leads the team's work on investment institutions in Africa and holds specific responsibility for leading the team's advisory program in Liberia. Previously, he managed MIGA's Sub-Saharan Africa Program. Before that he established and managed MIGA's global investment promotion capacity-building program. A South African national, he holds degrees from South African and American universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in International Development from Cornell University. During his career he has served on numerous public and publicprivate sector boards and has held teaching and research positions at universities in South Africa and the United States. Prior to joining MIGA, he established an economic development agency in South Africa and was actively involved in development matters during and after South Africa's political transformation. Jonathan Coppel is the executive program manager of the NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative and senior economist developing user guidelines for the Policy Framework for Investment with the OECD Investment Division. Since joining the OECD he has held a range of positions, including Deputy Counsellor to the Chief Economist, head of the EU and UK Desks, and energy market analyst. Mr. Coppel has also held senior management positions in the Reserve Bank of Australia. He started his career at the Australian Commonwealth Treasury. He was educated at the Australian National University and at Columbia University in New York. Vadim Ermakov is an associate at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Porto, Portugal. He holds a B.A. in international economic relations from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent, an M.Sc. in technology and innovation management from Sussex University in Brighton, and an M.P.P. in public policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Prior to joining PwC he completed an internship at CIGI in Waterloo, Ontario, where he worked with Hany Besada, a senior researcher and program leader in the Health and Social Governance Program. While studying in the United Kingdom, he was a policy consultant at the South East of England Development Agency and successfully completed the project Nurturing Innovation in the South-East Region: Assessment of the Innovation Advisory Service. He also worked on several development projects in Uzbekistan, supervised by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Andrew Goodwin majored in political science at the University of British Columbia and pursued a graduate degree in international relations at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Lille. He interned at the West African Network for Peacebuilding in Ghana and the International Crisis Group in Senegal, where this chapter was co-authored. He is currently a junior consultant at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Willene A. Johnson is currently president of Komaza, Inc., an economic consulting firm specializing in the role of finance in development and reconstruction. Focusing on Africa, Dr. Johnson conducts research and offers instruction in various subjects, including microfinance and security-sector resource management. From January 2000 to September 2001, she served in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, as the U.S. Executive Director of the African Development Bank, overseeing AfDB policies and development activities throughout Africa. She also serves as a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy and as the Vice-Chair of the Grameen Foundation African Advisory Council. Until recently, she was Chair of the Sub-Saharan African Advisory Committee of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and an adjunct professor of applied economics and management at Cornell University. Her work in finance and development builds on insights gained during nearly twenty years in the Federal Reserve System, where her career included economic research, foreign exchange, international financial markets, international affairs, and equal employment opportunity. Her education includes an A.B. in social studies from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, an M.A. in African history from Saint John's University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. Andrew Keili, a mining engineer by profession, is managing director of CEMMATS Group Ltd., a leading multidisciplinary engineering and project management consulting practice in Sierra Leone. Mr. Keili worked for a substantial period in the diamond and rutile mines in Sierra Leone before embarking on consultancy work. Over the past thirty years he has held positions of increasing responsibility in the private mining industry, in parastatals, and in consultancy work in Sierra Leone. He has an extensive background in the formulation and review of government policies, particularly in the mining, environmental, and infrastructure sectors, and has written extensively on the Sierra Leone mining industry. He has done consultancy work for several companies in the United States, Ukraine, and various countries in Africa. He is a member of the National Policy Advisory Committee to the president of Sierra Leone and has substantial experience in the Sierra Leone business sector. Mr. Keili is also chairman of the board of trustees of the National Social Security and Insurance Trust in Sierra Leone and a council member of the Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture and the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers. Caroline Khoubesserian has been working as a humanitarian aid worker since 2006 in Darfur, Liberia, and currently in Haiti. From 2003 to 2006 she was the senior research officer with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, where she coordinated several projects on multilateral governance, including global health governance and the L20 project. She has also worked in Lesotho with the Ministry of Justice to compile a UN Human Rights Report on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. She holds an M.A. in international politics from Dalhousie University and a B.Sc. in political science from the University of Ottawa. Robert Krech has worked on conflict-affected countries for the past ten years, including Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and Somalia. He completed his graduate work in political science at the University of Toronto, where he focused on post-conflict reconstruction and conducted field research in Sierra Leone. He has published on postwar reconstruction and presented widely on the topic. He has worked for the World Bank for the past six years and lived in Liberia for two years, where he worked in the World Bank country office. Currently he works for the Foreign Investment Advisory Services in the World Bank Group as an operations specialist for Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries. Mark Malan is an analyst with the New Zealand Centre for Army Lessons. From May 2007 to July 2008 he served with Refugees International as Peacebuilding Program Officer and Executive Coordinator for the Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping. From 2004 to 2006 he established and headed the Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution Department of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre. From 1996 to 2003, he served as a senior researcher and head of the Peace Missions Program at the Institute for Security Studies. Before joining the ISS, he served for twenty years with the South African Army, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel and holding a variety of posts, including senior lecturer in political science at the SA Military Academy. Malan has developed a number of regional peacekeeping training courses and manuals and has published extensively on regional security and peacekeeping in Africa. He has been an active participant in the African and global policy debate on peace support operations. He drafted the White Paper on South African participation in peace missions and was a contributing author to the supplementary volume of the ICISS report, The Responsibility to Protect. Eddy Maloka is currently the Adviser, Governance, Public Administration, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, at the NEPAD Secretariat. Previously he was responsible for the African Legacy Program at the 2010 FIFA World Cup Local Organizing Committee. For seven years he was CEO of the Africa Institute of South Africa. Before joining the AISA, Maloka was a lecturer at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Cape Town; for about two years after that he was a political adviser in the Office of the Premier in South Africa's provinces of Gauteng and Mpumalanga. Maloka writes widely on development issues on the African continent. He researches extensively on political and developmental issues in Africa, including the history of the liberation struggle in South Africa, and writes a weekly column for the Sowetan. Maloka has delivered lectures at the world's premier universities, including Oxford and Princeton. He is Vice-President for Southern Africa of the Association of African Political Science and President of the SA Association of Political Studies. Emmanuel Nnadozie is senior economist and chief of the UN Coordination Unit for AU/NEPAD Support at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). At one time he was focal point for the African Peer Review Mechanism at ECA. Before joining ECA in June 2004 he was an economics professor at Truman State University (1989–2004), visiting professor at the University of North Carolina (1996–97), and research fellow at Oxford University (1994). He is also the former chief planning officer at the World Bank's Agricultural Development Program in northern Nigeria. His scholarly works have appeared in academic and non-academic journals all over the world, and he is general editor of African Economic Development. An award-winning educator, he was recognized as the Most Outstanding Black Missourian of the Year in 2003. He has served as president of the African Finance and Economics Association of North America (1999–2001) and editor of the Journal of African Finance and Economic Development (1998–2002). Sunny Nyemah is managing consultant at George Edward Consulting, where he directs the assurance and compliance operations. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Metropolitan State University, Minnesota. In addition, he sits on the board of African American Family Services, the Pan African Chamber of Commerce, and Liberia Environmental Watch. He is a member of the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the International Compliance Association, and the Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Association, and is a Certified Internal Auditor, a Certified Investment and Derivative Auditor, a Certified International Project Manager, a fellow of the American Academy of Project Management, and a graduate of the Real Estate Institute (GRI). He holds Series 6 and 63 Licensures of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Prior to joining George Edward Consulting, Mr. Nyemah was a senior director at Global Equity Lending, an emerging lender with more than $500 million in revenue, based in Suwannee, Georgia, where he was responsible for building a $5 million monthly pipeline of residential loans and for supervising more than 200 associates. In addition to his investment and financing background, Mr. Nyemah has worked at Robert Half as a management consultant, providing financial management consultancy to such companies as Norwest Bank (Wells Fargo), Aegon-USA, CIMA Labs, and Renewal by Anderson (Anderson Windows). Mr. Nyemah holds a master's degree from the University of St. Thomas graduate program in software engineering, in Minnesota, and is a prospective graduate of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, California (LL.M. program in international public law and finance). Sunday Abogonye Ochoche holds a B.A. (1977) in philosophy from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees in peace studies from the University of Bradford. Dr. Ochoche was SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Visiting Individual Fellow to the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He was also post-doctoral fellow of the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation in International Peace and Security Studies at the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, University of Pittsburgh, and before that taught political science at the University of Jos, Nigeria. Subsequently, he joined the Nigerian War College as Deputy Director, Military Strategy. Later he became director of research. He was appointed the first Director General/CEO of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, the Presidency, Abuja, Nigeria, in which capacity he also served as adviser to the president on conflict management in Africa. He is currently Senior Political Affairs Officer, UN Integrated Office, in Sierra Leone. Dr. Ochoche was a member of the national committee that drafted Nigerias Defence Policy in 1997. In September 2002 he headed a four-nation ECOWAS committee to investigate the matter between Guinea-Bissau and Gambia. He was also a member of several Nigerian delegations to the UN General Assembly and AU summits. He is a fellow of War College, Nigeria. Ozonnia Ojielo is Senior Peace and Development Advisor to the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Kenya, as well as Chief, Peace Building and Conflict Prevention, UNDP Kenya. In his prior position, he was senior governance adviser and head of the Governance Program at UNDP, Ghana. Previously, he was chief of operations and subsequently officer-in-charge at the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, during which period he supervised the statement taking, research, investigations, and report-writing work of the commission. Prior to that, he was a human-rights lawyer (1990–2002), academic (at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria, 1997–20001), and president of the research and advocacy NGO, Centre for Peace in Africa, in Lagos, Nigeria (1993–2002). He was a technical adviser to the Malawi Human Rights Commission (1999–2001), adviser on alternative dispute resolution to the maritime industry in Nigeria, and president and fellow of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators of Nigeria (2000–2005). He is also a fellow of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice, Nigeria, and of the 21st Century Trust, London. He is the author of two books—Alternative Dispute Resolution (Lagos: CPA Books, 2001), and Managing Organizational Disputes (Lagos: CPA Books, 2002)—and editor of a third, Rethinking Peace and Security in Africa (Lagos: CPA Books, 2002). Ozonnia holds a Ph.D. in peace and conflict studies from the University of Ibadan; a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; an LL.B. from the Anambra State University of Science and Technology, Awka, Nigeria; and an M.B.A. in strategic management from the Paris Graduate School of Management, Paris. He has also attended professional courses in conflict transformation (Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia), conflict research (University of Uppsala, Sweden), international conflict resolution (Austrian Study Centre for Conflict Resolution/European Peace University, Stadschlaining), and conflict management and election observation (Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa, Italy). H.E. Darren Schemmer, High Commissioner of Canada to Ghana and Ambassador to Togo (BW.Ed. [Social Sciences], University of Alberta, 1982; M.B.A., Royal Roads University, 2002), joined the Canadian International Development Agency in 1989 as a development officer with the Andes Program, Americas Branch. He has since served abroad in Tegucigalpa, Washington, and Cairo. At CIDA headquarters he has served as Senior Departmental Assistant to the Minister for International Cooperation; Director General, Policy, Planning and Management; and Director General, Haiti, Cuba, and Dominican Republic. Miran G. Ternamian is a former research officer at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario. Mr. Ternamian's interests include Africa's economic, political, and security development, social justice as a means to peacebuilding, and environmentally sustainable economic development policies. He holds an honours B.A. from McMaster University and an M.B.A. in strategic management from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Prior to joining CIGI, he worked in Ottawa with the Bilateral Market Access Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. As a trade policy officer, Mr. Ternamian assessed Canadian industry interests, export opportunities, and import sensitivities with key trading partners. Oren E. Whyche-Shaw has over the past twenty years held senior positions in the private sector, the not-for-profit sectors, and the public sector. She has worked in developing and emerging-market environments and in North and Sub-Saharan African countries advising on strategies to stimulate the growth of African capital markets and the private sector. Ms. Whyche has held positions at J.P. Morgan, Citibank, R.J. Reynolds Industries, Owens Corning, the African Development Bank, Technosesrve, Inc., and the U.S. Treasury. She has served on the boards of the Planned Parenthood Federation, the African Venture Capital Association, the African Export-Import Bank, and Plan USA. She received a B.Sc. in mathematics and French from Capital University (Columbus, Ohio) and an M.B.A. from the Columbia University School of Business. Gilles Olakounle Yabi is a senior analyst of the West Africa Project (Dakar) with the International Crisis Group at the time of writing. He joined the International Crisis Groups West Africa office in September 2004 and conducts research on francophone West Africa. Dr. Yabi is responsible for the research and writing of the policy reports and briefings published by the International Crisis Group on the conflicts and political crises in Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea. He also contributed to the West Africa Project's research activities on other countries and issues in West Africa. Prior to joining Crisis Group, he completed a doctoral thesis in economics on the determinants of foreign direct investments and their impact on the economic growth in developing countries. He holds his Ph.D. and a postgraduate degree in development economics from the Centre of Studies and Research on International Development of the University of Clermont-Ferrand and a master's degree in international economics from Sorbonne University in Paris. He has also worked as a journalist for the Paris-based newsmagazine Jeune Afrique.

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Book Synopsis The early twenty-first century has seen the beginning of a considerable shift in the global balance of power. Major international governance challenges can no longer be addressed without the ongoing co-operation of the large countries of the global South. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, ASEAN states, and Mexico wield great influence in the macro-economic foundations upon which rest the global political economy and institutional architecture. It remains to be seen how the size of the emerging powers translates into the ability to shape the international system to their own will. In this book, leading international relations experts examine the positions and roles of key emerging countries in the potential transformation of the G8 and the prospects for their deeper engagement in international governance. The essays consider a number of overlapping perspectives on the G8 Heiligendamm Process, a co-operation agreement that originated from the 2007 summit, and offer an in-depth look at the challenges and promises presented by the rise of the emerging powers. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation Trade Review``As globalization intensifies and the world changes at a rapid pace, emerging economies are acquiring growing economic and political importance. In this context, new challenges require new forms of global economic governance and deeper cooperation. At the 2007 G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, G8 leaders and the leaders of China, Brazil, India, Mexico, and South Africa agreed to start a political dialogue on selected global economic issues. This book explores the first steps of the new dialogue process and its future potential. It breaks new ground and could assist policy-makers in drawing the map for enhanced international cooperation.'' -- Ulrich Benterbusch, Director, Heiligendamm Process Support Unit, Organisation forEconomic Cooperation and Development -- 200809``Countries like Mexico, India, Brazil, and especially China are...emerging...to compete with the United States in the modern world.... Cooper and Antkiewicz elaborate and give readers everything they need to know on the matter. Complete and comprehensive, Emerging Powers in Global Governance is an educational read on today's world.'' -- Wisconsin Bookwatch, The Political Science Shelf, February 2009, 200902``Emerging Powers in Global Governance is a rare example of how to marry theory and case-study to advance the understanding of and the debate on global governance. While it recognizes the centrality of emerging powers, it pushes for their inclusion in discussions on the new global architecture. The Heiligendamm Process is central to the book as the first significant step undertaken by the G8 in this area. Readers are presented with the agendas of the world's most industrialized countries and the aspirations of emerging countries, and are led to reflect on the way forward. -- Paola Subacchi, Research Director, International Economics, Chatham House -- 200809Table of Contents Emerging Powers in Global Governance: Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process, edited by Andrew F. Cooper and Agata Antkiewicz Foreword Dirk Messner Preface Yoginder Alag Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Acronyms 1. The Heiligendamm Process: Structural Reordering and Diplomatic Agency Andrew F. Cooper 2. The Logic of the B(R)ICSAM Model for Global Governance Timothy M. Shaw, Agata Antkiewicz, and Andrew F. Cooper 3. From G8 2003 to G13 2010? The Heiligendamm Process's Past, Present, and Future John Kirton B(R)ICSAM CASE STUDIES 4. China's Evolving G8 Engagement: Complex Interests and Multiple Identity in Global Governance Reform Gregory T. Chin 5. India and the G8: Reaching Out or Out of Reach? Abdul Nafey 6. Brazil and the G8 Heiligendamm Process Denise Gregory and Paulo Roberto de Almeida 7. South Africa: Global Reformism, Global Apartheid, and the Heiligendamm Process Brendan Vickers 8. A Break with the Past or a Natural Progression? Mexico and the Heiligendamm Process Duncan Wood 9. ASEAN and the G8: Potentially Productive Partners or Two Ships Passing in the Night? Paul Bowles THE EVOLVING ARCHITECTURE OF CHANGE 10. Germany and the Heiligendamm Process Thomas Fues and Julia Leininger 11. Why Is the OECD Involved in the Heiligendamm Process? Richard Woodward 12. Russia and Evolution of the Heiligendamm Process Victoria V. Panova 13. The United States and Summit Reform in a Transformational Era Colin I. Bradford, Jr. 14. Enhanced Engagement: The Heiligendamm Process and Beyond Alan S. Alexandroff List of Contributors Index Contributors Alan S. Alexandroff is a Research Director at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. He recently launched the Global Institutional Reform (GIR) Workshop at CIGI, a project designed to evaluate the adequacy of institutional reform proposals for the international system, leading to his edited volume, Can the World Be Governed? Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism (WLUP, 2008). In collaboration with Andrew F. Cooper, he is working on a second volume, Can the World Be Governed? Rising States; Rising Institutions. Paulo Roberto de Almeida is Professor of International Political Economy at Uniceub-Brasilia, and Associate Professor at Instituto Rio Branco, the Brazilian diplomatic academy. He is also a career diplomat since 1977 and previously served as Minister-Counselor at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington (1999-2003). He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Brussels and an M.A. in International Economy from the University of Antwerpen. Besides his professional duties, he has engaged in academic activities in Brazil and abroad. Dr. Almeida is also a researcher in economic history and international economic relations of Brazil, and has authored many books in those areas. Agata Antkiewicz is Senior Researcher and Program Leader at CIGI, where she oversees the Shifting Global Order research theme as well as the BRICSAM and economic governance projects. She holds an M.A. in Economics, specializing in International Trade and International Relations, from the University of Economics in Wroclaw, Poland. Ms Antkiewicz's authored or co-authored articles have been published by: The World Economy, Review of International Organizations, Journal of European Integration, Third World Quarterly, International Studies Review, Canadian Public Policy Journal, and National Bureau of Economic Research. Paul Bowles is Professor of Economics at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is a past-President of the Canadian Society for the Study of International Development and is also affiliated with universities in China and Mexico. He specializes in globalization, regionalism, and East Asian development. His most recent book is Globalization and National Currencies: Endangered Species? (Routledge, 2008). His current research projects include the political economy of China's currency choices and the political economy of labour and globalization. Colin I. Bradford, Jr., is Research Professor of Economics and International Relations at American University and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and at CIGI. He has held several positions, including Chief Economist at the United States Agency for International Development, Head of Research of the Development Centre of the OECD, Senior Staff of the Strategic Planning Unit of the World Bank, and Associate Professor in the Practice of International Economics and Management at the School of Organization and Management, Yale University. Gregory T. Chin teaches global politics, comparative politics, and East Asian political economy in the Department of Political Science and the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University. He is a Senior Fellow at CIGI, and a member of the Advisory Board of the North Korea Research Group at the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Rowman & Littlefield's New Millennium Books Series, and an academic member of the Editorial Board of the China and International Organization Books Series, jointly published by Shanghai People's Press and Shanghai International Studies University. He has held a visiting fellowship at Peking University (1997-98). His forthcoming book is entitled China's Automotive Modernization: Industrial Policy and Rival Firms (Palgrave, 2009). Andrew F. Cooper is Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow at CIGI and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, where he teaches in the areas of International Political Economy, Global Governance, Comparative and Canadian Foreign Policy, and the Practice of Diplomacy. He has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, the Australian National University, and in 2009 a Fulbright Visiting Chair of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. Dr. Cooper's recent publications include Global Governance and Diplomacy: Worlds Apart? (Palgrave, 2008), Celebrity Diplomacy (Paradigm, 2007), and Regionalisation and Global Governance: The Taming of Globalisation? (Routledge, 2007). Thomas Fues is Senior Research Fellow at the German Development Institute (DIE). His main research interests are global governance, emerging powers, United Nations, and international development cooperation. Recent publications include articles on G8 reform, the role of China and India in the global system, the UN development sector, as well as human rights and global governance. In addition to his research tasks, Dr. Fues is responsible for the Global Governance School at DIE as part of the training and dialogue programme ""Managing Global Governance"" with young professionals from governments and think tanks of emerging economies. Denise Gregory is a specialist in international relations and business administration, with experience in the areas of foreign trade, integration, and international trade negotiations. She was named Executive Director of the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) in December 2004. Previously, she acted as Institutional Relations Director of Investe Brasil, and was Chief of Staff to the President of the Brazilian Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES). Ms. Gregory has also held positions with the Executive Secretariat of the Foreign Trade Chamber (CAMEX), and Department of Foreign Trade Policy within the Foreign Trade Secretariat. John J. Kirton is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he is a Fellow of Trinity College. Dr. Kirton is the director of the G8 Research Group, established at the University of Toronto in 1987. He is also a Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies, where he leads the Program on Global Health Diplomacy and the G20 Research Group. He has advised the Canadian and Russian governments and the World Health Organization on G7/8 participation, international trade, and sustainable development, and has written widely on G7/G8 summitry. Julia Leininger is Research Fellow at the German Development Institute (DIE) in the Competitiveness and Social Development department. She is also an associate of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt as part of the PRIF/ Research Associate Project: Democracy Promotion through International Organisations. She has also held research positions with both the German Federal Ministry For Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the United Nations Development Programme. Her current research activities are in global governance, international institutions, and democracy promotion. Abdul Nafey is Professor at the Centre for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies, Jawaharal Nehru University (JNU). Before joining JNU, Dr. Nafey taught at the Universities of Delhi and Goa. He was Head of the Centre for Latin American Studies, Goa University in 1989-90. His areas of research include dynamics of democratic development in Latin America, state and civil society, structural adjustment and its consequences, social movements, political and cultural dynamics of Indian diaspora in the Caribbean, regional integration in Latin America, and security and foreign policy dynamics of major Latin American and Caribbean countries. Victoria Panova is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. She is also Regional Director for Russia of the G8 Research Group based at the University of Toronto. Dr. Panova is a member of the National Working Group of the Advisory Council of the Civil G8 project, and was responsible for the substance and organization of the Civil G8 working group on Human Security during Russia's 2006 G8 presidency. Her research focuses on regional conflicts, non-proliferation, terrorism, energy security and sustainability, as well as global governance (notably the G8) in relation to Russian civil society. Timothy M. Shaw is Director and Professor at the Institute of International Relations, the University of the West Indies St. Augustine. He previously directed the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and International Development Studies programmes at Dalhousie University, where he taught for three decades. Dr. Shaw holds degrees from three continents and is visiting professor in South Africa and Uganda. His latest monograph is Commonwealth: Inter- and Non-State Contributions to Global Governance (Routledge, 2007). He is general editor for the International Political Economy series for Ashgate and for Palgrave Macmillan. Brendan Vickers is Senior Researcher in the multilateral programme at the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD). Prior to joining the IGD, he was employed as the Deputy Director responsible for International Relations and Trade in the Office of the President of South Africa. He recently completed a Ph.D. with the University of London, focusing on international trade. Dr. Vicker's research interests are international trade, the WTO, trade law and diplomacy, regional integration, South African foreign policy, and international relations. Duncan Wood is Director of the Undergraduate Program in International Relations and Acting Head of the Department of International Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He is a member of the Mexican National Research System, a member of the editorial board of Foreign Affairs en Español and has been an editorial advisor to Reforma newspaper and was a non-resident Fulbright Fellow. Dr. Wood's research focuses on the Mexican energy sector, Latin American energy policy, migration and remittances, the political economy of international finance, and Canada-Mexico relations. In 2009 he will direct the Energy Policy Studies Center, to be based at ITAM. Richard Woodward is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Hull. He has written extensively on different facets of the OECD's role in global governance and his book on the organization will shortly be published by Routledge. Currently he is finalizing his Ph.D. thesis on the governance of the City of London's financial markets since 1997 and is co-writing (with Simon Lee) Understanding States and Markets: An Introduction to the History of Ideas in Political Economy (Palgrave, 2009). His other research interests include the financial crime, offshore financial centres, and development in small states.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned with the political economy of imperialism, John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century is a seminal examination of the relationship between the core capitalist countries and the rest of the world in the age of neoliberal globalization.Deploying a sophisticated Marxist methodology, Smith begins by tracing the production of certain iconic commodities-the T-shirt, the cup of coffee, and the iPhone-and demonstrates how these generate enormous outflows of money from the countries of the Global South to transnational corporations headquartered in the core capitalist nations of the Global North. From there, Smith draws on his empirical findings to powerfully theorize the current shape of imperialism. He argues that the core capitalist countries need no longer rely on military force and colonialism (although these still occur) but increasingly are able to extract profits from workers in the Global South through market mechanisms and, by aggressively favoring places with lower wages, the phenomenon of labor arbitrage. Meticulously researched and forcefully argued, Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century is a major contribution to the theorization and critique of global capitalism.

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Book SynopsisCounty Mayo, Ireland, is spectacularly beautiful. Dolphins, whales, and seals frolic in bays, rivers teem with salmon. Into this tranquil, unspoiled region, in early 2002, came Shell Oil, announcing plans to build a gas refinery. Shell promised wonderful things: new jobs, improved roads, money for schools. Church officials called this project a “godsend,” while honest, hard-working families, who had lived in Mayo for generations, certainly saw no harm in the project. But when the citizens of County Mayo realized what Shell actually intended to do, they rose up. Shamrocks & Oil Slicks tells the story of County Mayo—the fishermen, farmers, teachers, business people—who, motivated by love for their environment, their community, and their country, fought one of the planet’s most powerful destroyers to a standstill. To combat the pipelines that Shell planned to build dangerously close to their homes and the toxic chemicals Shell wanted to dump into their drinking water and their bay rich in sea life, the people launched a nonviolent resistance movement that was to last some fifteen years. Residents from all walks of life were beaten by police, threatened by mercenaries, sent to jail and prison. Abandoned by the state and their church, insulted and maligned by the media, they refused to give up fighting to save their environment and their heritage. This is a story of the courage inherent in everyday folk, told with sweeping and lyrical sincerity. It is one of many stories taking place now throughout the world, wherever people struggle to preserve what’s left of their natural world. More people are joining this resistance every day, inspired by uprisings like the one in County Mayo, Ireland.

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost annually. But what of the epidemiologists themselves? Some bravely descended into the caves where bat species hosted coronaviruses, including the strains that evolved into the COVID-19 virus. Yet, despite their own warnings, many of the researchers appear unable to understand the true nature of the disease—as if they are dead to what they’ve seen. Dead Epidemiologists is an eclectic collection of commentaries, articles, and interviews revealing the hidden-in-plain-sight truth behind the pandemic: Global capital drove the deforestation and development that exposed us to new pathogens. Rob Wallace and his colleagues—ecologists, geographers, activists, and, yes, epidemiologists—unpack the material and conceptual origins of COVID-19. From deepest Yunnan to the boardrooms of New York City, this book offers a compelling diagnosis of the roots of COVID-19, and a stark prognosis of what—without further intervention—may come.Trade ReviewCrafting in real time a political-economic ecology of pandemics in the age of climate change and agribusiness. — Edgar Rivera Colón, coauthor, Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine // This is a book of truth, that kind that sets us free by cutting through the bindings of lies and ignorance. In this moment of cascading crises, it is necessary to find the truth, which is never what’s on the surface. We are fortunate, indeed, that Rob Wallace has been preparing for now, plunging into subjects as varied as ecology and political economy so that he can articulate the scope of our problems. That he can see the truth is amazing. That he can write about it with grace and humor eases the shock of seeing the real through the haze of our false consciousness. Read this book as if your life depended on it, because it does. — Mindy Thompson Fullilove, author, Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All // Name one other epidemiologist who knows his N.K. Jemisin as well as his Gramsci and Arrighi, who understands the broad colonial relations of corporate capitalism as well as the detailed “epizoological perversities” of the factory farm—and who can write about it all with such perfect, pissed-off, punk-rock eloquence and fury. In his brilliance and in the extraordinary depth, range, and courage of his thinking, Rob Wallace is unique. From the plantation-era roots of the contemporary horseshoe-crab-blood-mining industry—yeah, you read that right—to the reproductive cycle of the Chinese horseshoe bat, Dead Epidemiologists makes sense of the COVID-19 pandemic like no other work I’ve encountered anywhere, as a disease that exists in and arose out of the globalized dystopia in which we already live. This is radical thinking in the very best sense: Wallace is unwilling to accept the rigged and homicidal terms of the world we’ve been given. He insists on no less than the birthing of a new one, or better yet, a return, in solidarity, humility, and love, to the planet that we already have.— Ben Ehrenreich, author, Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time // If Big Farms Make Big Flu was an eye-opener, Dead Epidemiologists has taken the analysis to a completely different level of sophistication. The breadth and depth of issues considered with authority and perspicacity in the new collection of essays makes this book essential reading. It is also a devastating critique of the failures of mainstream epidemiologists. The scientific literature on COVID-19 and other pandemics largely ignores the role of capitalist production as “a causal factor in the production of invasive species.” This book sets the context for understanding how neoliberal capitalism is generating its own nemesis and threatening the annihilation of billions of people. But it also shelters hope in the organising capacity of peasant and small farmer movements. This book deserves to be in everyone’s hands. — Firoze Manji, host, Organising in the Times of COVID-19, Daraja Press

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Book SynopsisThe growth of transnational corporations, the dominance of worldwide financial and political institutions, and the extensive influence of media that are nearly monopolized by corporate interests are key factors shaping our global society today. What are the consequences of these developments for the great masses of people throughout the world? One clearly emerging pattern is the growing disparity between the developed nations and the rest of the world. In this excellent analysis of power distribution and its effects, sociologist Jerry Kloby presents data on the increase of wealth and income inequality, and argues that many of the policies pursued by the developed nations and international corporations have led to a deterioration of living standards and the environment in many parts of the world. He also discusses a power shift in the United States that has weakened the working class. One of the great strengths of Kloby's work is the comprehensive picture he creates from many diverse events and trends—local and international, contemporary and historical. The many graphs and tables containing supporting data add a visual element that guides the reader to a clear understanding of the complex forces underlying contemporary developments. He also clearly explains the meaning and relevance of such sophisticated but important terms as neoliberalism, dependency, civil society, and social capital. This fully revised and updated edition will have enduring value for students and scholars of sociology, political science, economics, and international relations.Trade Review"... arguably the best and most up-to-date text in the field of political sociology available today. Its useful tables and illustrative inserts make this book ideal for undergraduate students..." -- Martin Oppenheimer, Associate Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies, Rutgers University.

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Book SynopsisGlobalization is fast becoming the most over-used and least-understood word in the world. For Tony Blair it is 'inevitable and irresistible'. To deny it, says Nelson Mandela, is 'like saying I do not recognize winter'. The accelerating political, economic, cultural and environmental interconnections that it describes are powerful and controversial. But where did globalization come from - and where is it going next?By identifying successive waves of globalization - from 15th-century explorations to the European trading empires of the 19th century; from the construction of the Great Wall of China to the fall of the Berlin Wall -- Alex MacGillivray tells the incredible story of how a mysterious flat earth became a global village.Covering globalization from all angles (the rise of the multinational corporation, the birth of the football World Cup, how most film stars know a friend of a friend of Kevin Bacon), MacGillivray opens the lid on the complex economics behind the controversies and gives equal play to technology and culture, politics and war.From Babylon and Bollywood to Seattle and satellite navigation, the book is rich in detail, wide-ranging in scope and even-handed in its assessment of the benefits and dangers of globaliztion. It is the brief history of an incredible shrinking planet.Trade ReviewA fast, fact-filled funny book, globe-shrinking and mind-blowing. * Felipe Fernandez-Armesto *

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