Making the G20 Summit Process Work: Some Proposals for Improving Effectiveness and Legitimacy
The G20 at the summit level has emerged as the “premier forum for international economic cooperation” in the wake of the global financial crisis. In the second of CIGI’s series of G20 papers, Barry Carin, Paul Heinbecker, Gordon Smith and Ramesh Thakur discuss which global problems could be on future G20 agendas and offer ideas as to how the new “G” grouping can achieve both effectiveness and legitimacy.
The G20 and Climate Change: the Quintessential Global Governance Issue
Thanks to Lord Nicholas Stern of Britain, a compelling case has been made about the drastic economic consequences of failing to deal in good time with climate change. The next economic crisis might well be driven by an inadequate response to climate change. We have seen from the Great Recession that the G20 can deal successfully with global-scale problems. We need it now to focus its efforts on the quintessential global governance issue – climate change—that could doom us all if we can’t find the means to agree to change course.
Canada Among Nations, 2009-2010: As Others See Us
Marking the 25th anniversary of the series, this edition of Canada Among Nations focuses on how leading foreign and Canadian practitioners and scholars assess Canada's prospects in the world.
Paul Heinbecker Participates in a Panel Discussion on UN Reform
To discuss Canada's campaign for a UN Security Council seat.
Canadian Policy and the Middle East
Paul Heinbecker's Presentation Before the Arthur Kroeger College Educational Students' Society.
“Whose UN Is It, Anyway?”
Paul Heinbecker's Lecture, AEXDP for the School of the Public Service.
President Obama’s Foreign Policy and Canada
Paul Heinbecker's Presentation to to the Advanced Leadership Program at the Canada School of Public Service.
Canada and the Middle East
Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world's most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada's diplomats, academics and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada's relationship with the Middle East and the challenges Canada faces there. The contributors examine Canada's efforts to promote its interests and values -- peace building, peacekeeping, multiculturalism, and multilateralism, for example -- and investigate the views of interested communities on Canada's relations with countries of the Middle East.
Irrelevant or Indispensable? The United Nations in the 21st Century
Suffering from a divided membership, the United Nations is at a crossroads. This volume assembles under one cover the perspectives of current practitioners, leading academics, civil society representatives and United Nations officials on transforming the secretary general's reform ideas into action. Their assessments are frank and their views varied, but they do agree on one thing: the United Nations must be made more effective precisely because it is indispensable to the promotion of economic development and collective security in the twenty-first century.