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Dr. Inge Kaul . Global Policy Studies

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THE FUTURE OF MULTILATERALISM

This study examines the role of multilateral organizations, notably that of United Nations system agencies within the context of today’s globalizing, multi-actor world. It explores how the capacity of national governments, civil society and markets has evolved over time and how these changes have affected how multilateral agencies function at present and what their role might be in the future, considering also emerging new policy challenges and international cooperation requirements.

Discussion papers (comments most welcome):

Bye-bye Westphalian State; Hello Intermediary State -
Why Fair Multilateralism Matters
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The Changing Role of the United Nations
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Responsible Sovereignty: A Key Principle of the Next World Order?
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Taking Interdependence into Account
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Understanding Global Economic Governance: Towards a Theory of Dual Market Failure
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Taming States, Taming Markets: Steps Towards Better Global Economic Governance
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Meeting Global Health Challenges: Is the EU Ready?
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Key words:
Global governance, multilateralism, United Nations reform,
market failure, state failure

DO PUBLIC GOODS AND GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS NEED A THEORY
OF THEIR OWN?

This research effort examines the discrepancy that has arisen between the present standard concept of public goods and the reality of public goods provision and explores a number of conceptual and methodological revisions that could help narrow this discrepancy.

A preliminary finding and hypothesis to be explored further is that for an adequate understanding of public goods provision in today’s globalizing multi-actor world more than a limited revision of the current standard concept would be required. The reason is that so far, the analytical home of public goods has primarily been public economics. Yet public economics increasingly captures but a fraction of the overall process of public goods provision, viz. the state-based national-level part, with a special focus even on the executive strand of government, leaving aside the expanding nonstate part as well as the international cooperation part of public goods provision.

Thus, it may be opportune to formulate a proper theory of public goods that examines public goods in all their forms and dimensions—as national and transnational public goods; in respect to the roles in their provision—politics and production—of state and nonstate actors, at national as well as international levels.

Discussion papers (comments most welcome):

From a social-constructivist conceptualization to the triangle of publicness: Efficient and legitimate provision of global public goods
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Reconceptualizing Public Goods and Global Public Goods
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Towards a Global Public Policy
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Key words:
Public economics, public finance, public goods, global public goods

RESEARCH|RECENT COMMENTARY (IN GERMAN – DEUTSCH)

Ökonomisch sinnvoll, machbar, zukunftsgerichtet: eine Solidaritätsabgabe auf Devisentransaktionen.
Paper prepared for the public hearing of the Finance Committee of the German Parliament on the issue of financial transaction taxes, 15 May 2010
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Souveränität und Globalisierung.
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Zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik heute: Beobachtungen einer Grenzgängerin.
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