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Globalizing Social Rights : The International Labour Organization, 1940-70 Kott, Sandrine ;Droux, Joëlle ;Droux, Joelle ;Geneva: International Labour Office , 2012 Available Online |
The ILO @ 100 : addressing the past and future of work and social protection Gironde, Christophe.; Carbonnier, Gilles. ;Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Nijhoff , 2019. Available Online |
Globalizing social rights : the international labour organization and beyond Kott, Sandrine.; Droux, Joëlle. ;Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013. Available Online |
No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn Kupchan, Charles A. ;Oxford University Press , 2012 Available Online |
Asia's rise in the 21st century MacDonald, Scott B. ; ; Lemco, Jonathan. ;Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger , 2011. Available Online |
From rivalry to partnership? : new approaches to the challenges of Africa Chafer, Tony.; Cumming, Gordon D. ;Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate , 2011. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (960:327 F931 ) |
Development perspectives from the South : troubling the metrics of [under-]development in Africa Mawere, Munyaradzi. ;Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG , 2016. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (330.34(6) D4887 ) |
Middle power internationalism the North-South dimension Pratt, Cranford. ;Kingston Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press , c1990. Available Online |
Alden, Chris. ; ; Morphet, Sally.; Vieira, Marco Antonio. ;Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (330.341 A358 ) |
The world economy through the lens of the United Nations Ocampo, José Antonio.; Chowdhury, Anis.; Alarcón, Diana. ;Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press , 2018. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (341.277 W927 ) and other locations |
La longue marche de l'Afrique vers l'intégration, le développement et la modernité politique Ghadhi, Ahmed Mohamed. ;Paris : Harmattan , 2009. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (330.34(6) G411 ) |
Ntwari, Guy-Fleury. ;Thesis(doctoral)--l'Université Jean Moulin Lyon III, 2014. 2017. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (341.25(6) N961 ) and other locations |
The upside of down : why the rise of the rest is good for the West Kenny, Charles J. ;New York : Basic Books , 2013. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (330.1(73) K365 ) |
The rise of "the rest" : challenges to the West from late-industrializing economies Amsden, Alice H. ;New York, NY : Oxford University Press , 2001 Available at UN Library at Geneva Stacks (338.9 A528) Available Online |
North-South trade, employment and inequality : changing fortunes in a skill-driven world Wood, Adrian. ; ; University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies. ;Oxford, England : Clarendon Press , 1994. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (382 W873 ) |
Le organizzazioni internazionali dei paesi in via di sviluppo Pennetta, Piero. ;Bari, Italy : Cacucci Editore , 1998- Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (341.271 P413 ) |
Networks of influence? developing countries in a networked global order Martinez-Diaz, Leonardo, 1976-; Woods, Ngaire. ;Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , 2009. Available Online |
Poulsen, Lauge N. Skovgaard. ;Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press , 2015. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (332.25 P875 ) |
Diplomacy and developing nations : post-Cold War foreign policy-making structures and processes Robertson, Justin, 1972-; East, Maurice A. ;London ; New York : Routledge , 2005. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (327 D5958 ) |
Razvivaiushchiesia strany : teoriia i praktika mnogostoronnei ekonomicheskoi diplomatii Obminskii, Ernest Evgen'evich. ;Moskva : Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia , 1986. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (330.34 O128r ) |
Third-World diplomats in dialogue with the First World : the new diplomacy Moore, Robert J. ; ; International Development Research Centre (Canada) ;London : Macmillan in association with International Development Research Centre , 1985. Available UN Library at Geneva Stacks (327 M823) |
Developing countries in the Group of 77 : a journey in multilateral diplomacy, 1964 to 2004 Behnam, Awni. ;2005. Towards world constitutionalism. Leiden, Netherlands : M. Nijhoff Publishers, 2005 : 355-380 Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Legal and Political - Not for loan (341 T737 ) |
Europe, diplomacy, and development : new issues in EU relations with developing countriesC osgrove-Sacks, Carol, 1943-; Santos, Carla.; Collège d'Europe (Bruges, Belgium) ;Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave in association with College of Europe , 2001. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (330.341(4) E893 ) |
The challenge to the South : the report of the South Commission. South Commission. ;Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press , 1990. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva UNCTAD Collection (stacks) (DEV(90/I) P.0068 ) and other locations Available Online |
South Commission. ;México, D.F. : Fondo de Cultura Económica , 1991. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (330.341 S7265bs ) and other locations Available Online |
Third world cooperation : the Group of 77 in UNCTAD Williams, Marc. ;London : Pinter Publishers New York : St. Martins Press , 1991. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (330.341 W725 ) and other locations |
Building partnerships for good governance : the spirit and the reality of South-South cooperation NU. División de Economía y Administración Pública ;New York, NY : United Nations , 2000 Available at UN Library at Geneva UN Stacks (00.II.H.4) |
UN. Department of Economic and Social Affairs; UN. Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination ;New York : UN-DESA, Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination , 2005 Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva UN Stacks (05.II.A.13 ) and other locations |
Girvan, Norman; UN Research Institute for Social Development ;Geneva : UN Research Institute for Social Development , Oct. 2005 Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva UN Stacks (UNRISD(05)/O8/No.9 ) and other locations Available Online |
Les évolutions du régionalisme africain : le fonctionnement des communautés économiques régionales Tchaméni, Augustin. ;Paris : L'Harmattan , 2013. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (330.344(6) T249 ) |
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development / UNCTAD ;New York ; Geneva : United Nations , 2011 Available Online |
Basculement économique et géopolitique du monde : poids et diversité des pays émergents Matmati, Mohammed. ;Paris : L'Harmattan , 2013. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (330.34 B298 ) |
The South shaping the global future : six decades of the South-North development struggle in the UN Gosovic, Branislav. ; ; UNCTAD. ;Basel, Switzerland : Transcend University Press ; Oslo : Kolofon , 2014. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva UN Corner B127 (341.271 G676 ) |
African coalitions and global economic governance Byron Nelson, Michael. ;New York : Cambridge Univeristy Press , 2016. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (330.341(6) N428 ) |
The BRICS in international development Gu, Jing.; Shankland, Alex.; Chenoy, Anuradha. ;London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (330.34 B8495 ) |
Pino, Bruno Ayllón.; Ojeda, Tahina. ;Madrid : Catarata , 2013. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (330.34(46:8) C778 ) |
The collected documents of the Group of 77 Ahmia, Mourad. ;New York : Oceana, Oxford University Press , 2006- Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics - Not for loan (330.341 C697 ) |
Multilateralism and regionalism : the new interface Mashayekhi, Mina; Ito, Taisuke; Pre-UNCTAD XI Forum on Multilateralism and Regionalism : the New Interface (2004 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) ;New York ; Geneva : UN , 2005 Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva UN Stacks ([TD/]UNCTAD/DITC/TNCD/2004/7 ) Available Online |
Yu, Vicente Paolo B. ; ; South Centre. ;Geneva : South Centre , 2008. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (382.1 Y945 ) Available Online |
The WTO multilateral trade agenda and the South South Centre. ;Geneva : South Centre , 1998. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (382 W958 ) and other locations Available Online |
Internationalism in the age of nationalism Sluga, Glenda, 1962- ;Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Stacks (341.271 S634 ) Available Online |
Additional Resources from the World Economic Forum (https://www.weforum.org/)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020
Selected titles from the UN Library Geneva collections:
The fourth industrial revolution Schwab, Klaus. ; World Economic Forum. Available - Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (651.2 S398 ) |
Deep inequality : understanding the new normal and how to challenge it Wysong, Earl, 1944- ; Perrucci, Robert. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2018. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (339.2 W994 ) |
Can business save the Earth? : innovating our way to sustainability Lenox, Michael. ; Chatterji, Aaron. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books , 2018. Available - Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (330.17 L572 ) |
From summits to solutions : innovations in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals Desai, Raj M., 1966-; Brookings Institution. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press , 2018. Available - Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (330.17 F931 ) |
Buhmann, Karin. London ; New York : Routledge , 2018. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (658 B931p ) |
Understanding community economic growth and decline : strategies for sustainable development Gordon, Gerald L. New York : Routledge , 2018. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (352(73) G663 ) |
SDG17 Partnerships for the goals : strengthening implementation through global cooperation Thiel, Monica, 1962- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing , 2019. Available - Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (341.271 T431 ) |
Discreet power : how the World Economic Forum shapes market agendas Garsten, Christina. ; Sörbom, Adrienne. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2018. Available - Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (330.34 G243 ) |
Success stories in technical cooperation : towards the 2030 Agenda UN. ECE. Information Unit; UN. ECE. New York ; Geneva : UN , 2018. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva UN Stacks (ECE/INF/2017/1 ) |
International Geneva expertise on the SDGs UN Office at Geneva. Office of the Director-General. Perception Change Project. Geneva : UN, PCP ; Genève Internationale, Feb. 2019. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva UN Stacks (ODG/PCP/2018/17 ) |
UN Office at Geneva. Office of the Director-General. Perception Change Project. Geneva : UN , Mar. 2018. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva UN Stacks (ODG/SDG/LAB/2018/1/Rev.1 ) |
Hoek, Marga. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , 2018. Available at Library at UN Office at Geneva Economic, Social and Statistics RR, B352 (330.17 H693 ) |
Towards a more equal society? : poverty, inequality and policy since 1997.
The spirit level : why more equal societies almost always do better
Reclaiming development agendas : knowledge, power and international policy making
Targeting and universalism in poverty reduction
Assets, livelihoods, and social policy
Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries : who really gets hurt?
Globalization, export-oriented employment, and social policy
Gender and education : a review of issues for social policy
Gender and social policy in a global context : uncovering the gendered structure of "the social"
Inclusive states : social policy and structural inequalities
Globalization and social policy : the threat to equitable welfare
Social policy in a development context
Combating poverty and inequality : structural change, social policy and politics
Financing social policy : mobilizing resources for social development
South-south migration : implications for social policy and development
Questioning development : essays in the theory, policies and practice of development interventions
The age of sustainable development
Social inclusion : role of the social partners.
Analysing and measuring social inclusion in a global context
Migration, citizenship, and intercultural relations : looking through the lens of social inclusion
Social inclusion and social protection in the EU : interactions between law and policy
Governing social inclusion : europeanization through policy coordination
Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) and other women in pursuit of peace.
Engendering the global agenda: the story of women and the United Nations
Lobbying the League : women's international organizations and the League of Nations
Angela Merkel : l'OVNI politique
Women of power : half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide
India's search for power : Indira Gandhi's foreign policy. 1966-1982
Golda Meir : la femme qui a permis la naissance d'Israël
Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom
British foreign policy under Thatcher
Statecraft : strategies for a changing world
Casting her own shadow : Eleanor Roosevelt and the shaping of postwar liberalism
A new deal for the world : Eleanor Roosevelt and American foreign policy
The United Nations and the advancement of women, 1945-1996
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Feminism for the Americas : the making of an international human rights movement
Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Handbook on gender in world politics
Femmes et relations internationales au XXe siècle
Windows of opportunity : how women seize peace negotiations for political change
Worlding women : a feminist international politics
Equal opportunity peacekeeping : women, peace, and security in post-conflict states
Women as foreign policy leaders : national security and gender politics in superpower America
Women and American foreign policy : lobbyists, critics, and insiders
Gender and international relations : issues, debates and future directions
Gender and international relations
Common ground or mutual exclusion? : women's movements and international relations
Feminist theory and international relations in a postmodern era
A feminist voyage through international relations
Feminist methodologies for international relations
Gender, UN peacebuilding, and the politics of space : locating legitimacy
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