The Turning World: Globalisation and Governance at the Start of the 21st Century

It is the task of the IIAS and the UNDESA to track and focus on changes in the atmosphere of world governance and public administration. It can clearly be argued that the existence and the work of bodies like UNDESA and IIAS are themselves a consequence of a process that now goes by the contested and contentious term globalisation. Many of the institutions that are in the frontline of the conflict for peace today, came into existence through the experiences from the most recent century. Unl...