Transnational Bodies

IMF Event Includes Call for Global Review of Monetary Policy

October 19, 2016

At a recent International Monetary Fund seminar that focused on the effects of the policies of central banks on "emerging economies," former Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao supported the development of a global body that would review whether authorities properly assess the international impacts of their national monetary policy decisions.
WEF Launches Center for Global Governance of Technology

October 19, 2016

The World Economic Forum has launched its Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco to develop policy frameworks for the governance of future technological breakthroughs.
WEF Convenes Panel for Global Policy Prescriptions

October 11, 2016

The World Economic Forum recently convened a Network of Global Future Councils, made up of "innovators from academia, government, business, civil society, the arts and the media," to provide international policy solutions for a wide range of issues and to help prepare governments for the advent of a "Fourth Industrial Revolution."
OSCE Plans Largest-Ever US Elections Observer Team

October 05, 2016

Reuters reports that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is seeking to organize the largest team it has ever sent to monitor US elections in November, in particular to scrutinize activists' charges of racially discriminatory voting laws in certain US states.
Kirchner: G-20 Lacks Influence on Domestic Policies

September 22, 2016

An article from economist Stephen Kirchner laments that the G-20 group of countries has come to serve as an unpromising forum with little to show in the way of global governance that influences items on the domestic agendas of its members.
OSCE Official: Trespassing Charge Chills Media Freedom

September 21, 2016

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović has called for authorities in the US to rescind a warrant issued for the arrest of a reporter on charges of criminal trespassing while she was covering a story, arguing that such charges have a "negative impact on journalists' right to do their work."
OECD: Governments Must Communicate Migration Benefits

September 21, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has called on governments to better communicate the benefits of mass migration into their countries and better integrate migrants in order to counter "growing anti-immigration backlash."
Academics Criticize TPP Dispute Structure

September 15, 2016

A letter to members of the US Congress from law and economics professors raises concerns with provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that they say will permit access by foreign investors to a special procedure to challenge and receive taxpayer compensation for alleged harm from US government policies and decisions.
Experts Call for Delay in ICANN Transition

September 14, 2016

Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation and homeland security consultant Paul Rosenzweig list several reasons why the US government should rethink the timing of its transfer of control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to a global multi-stakeholder body, including the danger of influence by authoritarian governments on internet regulation.
BRICS Seeks to Challenge Western Global Governance

September 14, 2016

A profile of the BRICS grouping of countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - by Huifang Tian of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences makes clear the group's intent to establish a system of global governance on economic issues that rivals that of current institutions, such as the G-20 group of countries, dominated by Western governments.