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Additional readings on global governance
and UN reform

Childers, Erskine and Brian Urquart	*Renewing the United Nations System* Uppsala, Sweden: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 1994. 213 p. Analyses the present state of the UN 'system' and suggests reforms that might allow it to function more effectively.
Evans, Gareth	Cooperating for Peace St. Leonard's, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin,1993. 224p. Offers well-developed proposals for strengthening global capacity for preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping and peacebuilding.
Imber, Mark	Environment, Security, and UN Reform New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. 180 p. Examines the connections between environment and development, the role of Third World debt in perpetuating both poverty and environmental damage, the extension of the commons concept to include not only the seas, but also the atmosphere and climate system and the need to reform the UN after Rio.
Kenen, Peter B. (ed)	Managing the World Economy: Fifty Years after Bretton Woods Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1994. 430 p. An assessment by leading experts and policy-makers of the record of the Bretton Woods regime over the past half century. Recommendations for modernizing the international economic order include changing the IMF, GATT, WTO, and World Bank.
Korten, David	When Corporations Rule the World West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1995. 374 p. A critical look at the institution of the global corporation and the system within which it functions. Calls for new controls on big business and greater emphasis on community rights.
MacNeill, Jim, Pieter Winsemius and Taizo Yakushiji	Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Pieter Winsemius Economy and the Earth's Ecology Oxford University Press, 1991. 159 p. A pre-Rio argument for viewing the world's economy and earth's ecology as inter-linked and the implications for institutions of governance at both the international and national levels.