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CAG Research Asia's Role In Global Governance Kishore Mahbubani & Simon Chesterman Produced by CAG and written by LKY School Dean Kishore Mahbubani and CAG Faculty Associate Simon Chesterman, this special report provides a list of ten ways in which Asia can contribute to solving some key global challenges.


CAG Research Can Energy Be Governed? Ann Florini, CAG Director Project Syndicate Energy lies at the heart of the world’s most pressing global challenges. Yet at both the global and national levels, energy is poorly governed. The fiasco of the Copenhagen climate summit is just one illustration of how far the world is from being able to bring about the desperately needed transition to a system of sustainable and secure provision of energy services..... (Read on)


CAG Research How Banks Can Save the World Banks which had, just a few months ago, been bailed out with public funds are now paying their staff millions in bonuses. This has outraged many, but not Dr Sanjeev Khagram, International Associate at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation. Read full interview. Photo by Flick user wallyg, used under Creative Common license.


CAG Research Asia's Contribution to the Redesign of Global Governance CAG and the LKY School, in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, hosted the Global Redesign Initiative Singapore Hearing on 1-2 December 2009. The Hearing engaged 30 leading thinkers and experts from Asia and the West in an open debate to evaluate the role of Asia in global governancne in the 21st century. The outcome will shape ongoing dialogue that will be continued at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters in 2010. • Opening Session of the Hearing • What is the Global Redesign Initiative?


CAG Research Video Interview Series Global Health Governance Study Group S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance Meet the members of the S.T. Lee Project Global Health Governance (GHG) Study Group, hear their views on key challenges in GHG today, how to strengthen GHG research capacity and the focus on their research. • Read an in-depth interview with Dr Kelley Lee (pictured above), Co-Chair of the GHG Study Group in Rapporteur Oct 2009.

UPCOMING PROGRAMMES
CAG Roundtable ADBI Dean and CEO to address at CAG on "Beyond the Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Rebalancing Growth in Asia" CAG to host a closed door exclusive roundtable session on 12 Feb 2010 by Mr Masahiro Kawai, Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute. For more info, contact Dr Toby Carroll - tcarroll@nus.edu.sg

• A Few dollars at a time: How to tap consumers for the global fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis Foreign Affairs

• Will google's fight with China stymie climate negotations between the US and China?

• The Rise and Fall of the Guardians Foreign Affairs

• The New Schizophrenia: Asia between integration and isolation Joshua Kurlantzick

• Two cheers for China's Climate Obstruction Bjorn Lomborg

• Will China ruled the world? Dani Rodrik

• What we can learn from Japan's decades of trouble Martin Wolf

• Top Global Risks of 2010 Newsweek

• Why nations should pursue "soft power" Shashi Tharoor

• Asia's Changing Power Dynamics Brahma Chellaney

• Climate Change and China's Global Responsibilities Kenneth Lieberthal

• Overcoming the Copenhagen Failture Joseph Stiglitz

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RESEARCH FOCUS
Global Governance • S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance » Concepts of Global Governance » Global Health Governance » Global Energy Governance
Energy Govenance • MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Initiative • Rockefeller Foundation Energy Security Trend Monitoring
New Modes of Governance • Public Roles of the Private Sector
Transparency and Access to Information
Social Innovation & Change • Programme on Social Innoovation & Change (PSIC)
Risk and Regulation • Risk and Regulation in Asia

MEDIA LIBRARY

• Rapporteur (Oct 2009 CAG Newsletter)
Special Feature on Transparency and Access to Information

• CAG Compendium of Research 2007 - 2009

• Powerpoint Presentation
Roundtable on "Valuing the social impact of sustainable Asian social enterprise", Durreen Shahnaz, Head, PSIC

• Paper
"The Indonesian Electricity Sector: Institutional Transition, Regulatory Capacity and Regulatory Outcomes", Mika Purra, Research Fellow, CAG

"Social Enterprises in Asia: Context and Opportunities", Durreen Shahnaz, Head,
CAG Working Paper 008

• Book
The Right to Know: Transparency for an open world
Ann Florini, Director, CAG
» Introduction- The Battle Over Transparency
» Conclusion- WhitherTransparency?

S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance

Video Interview Series