Product Description: This publication presents an assessment of the partnership agenda across the United Nations system. The report explores how partnerships with business act as a catalyst for reform and institutional innovation throughout the UN organization by infusing private sector management practices and performance-based thinking...read more

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Product Description: During the last decade "globalization" has become a fashion among policymakers and academics alike. Not one day passes during which the term is not being invoked to legitimize a policy decision, promote a policy prescription, or explain a policy outcome...read more

Product Description: With the end of the Cold War, many have argued that the close economic relationship between the United States and Europe should replace the security alliance as the primary basis of the transatlantic partnership. In this book, Wolfgang Reinicke critically assesses the basic premise of such a proposition and examines two concrete proposals that have been made to strengthen transatlantic economic relations--a Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) and a New Transatlantic Marketplace...read more

Product Description: Book by Heilemann, Ulrich, Heilemann, Ullrich, Reinicke, Wolfgang H.

Product Description: This text examines the US banking system's response to the on-going globalization of financial markets. Based on a micro-political analysis of policy-making, the study reveals a multitude of changes in the interests, coalitions and power constellations among private and public sector actors and institutions in the US financial system, in the absence of any macrostructural adjustment...read more

Product Description: This work examines many of the challenges confronting Europe as it begins a new era. Currently, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are struggling to build market economies and multi-party democracies, and the European Community is divided on the future course of integration...read more