9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health
6-10 September 2015, TPH, Basel
publication_autor: Raymond Saner
Public Private Partnerships in the Health Sector
Public Private Partnerships in the Health Sector: opportunities, risks and issues of congruence with the Sustainable Development Goals
Raymond Saner, CSEND
Lecture given on Economic Diplomacy
Lecture given on Economic Diplomacy at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic on 10th April 2015.
Presentation has also been uploaded on website of Jan Masaryk Centre of International Studies at the Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague.
Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development
Stakeholder engagement for sustainable development : replacing hierarchies of failures with hierarchies of solutions.
Cultural Tourism Development in Lake of Geneva region
This presentation focuses on the cultural entrepreneurship in the lake of Geneva region. Two musical festivals are described namely the Jazz Festival of Montreux and the Music Festival Paléo near Nyon. Both music festivals were created by founders who had the initial creative concepts, implemented them and found a way to make their success sustainable through constructive and mutually beneficial cooperation with the communities and authorities of the locations where the two festivals are being held on an annual basis.
Hierarchies of failures and solutions : Need for Cultural Diplomacy!
Raymond Saner, presentation given at DAW Singapore, 10th May 2013
Sustainability is often simplified to mean achieving “Triple E” (sustained economic, environmental and equitable social development” but little has been suggested as to how communities can harmonize the triple “Es” and find constructive solutions to the inevitable occasional tensions between the three sectors of social reality. There needs to be an overarching strategy that ensures ways to nurture a social culture which supports, protects, leads, cajoles communities towards orienting their respective activities and roles towards an overall balance of their multiple interests and desires which at times are in opposition with each other and at other times coalesce towards the achieving of a sustained well being for all.
Cultural Diplomacy can nurture a culture of sustainability. Cultural Diplomacy pertains to the use of the arts and cultural events by state and non-state actors to bring about international cultural understanding, co-existence and mutual acceptance. Cultural diplomats can be government officials as well as representatives of civil society with strong links or background in the arts and background in the arts and culture. Sustainability in its multi-sector reality needs cultural diplomats who can offer solutions to the inevitable disagreements over priorities of how to achieve the “Triple Es” and how to ensure constructive and harmonious relations between the many actors involved in making sustainability a reality. The Digital Art Weeks (DAW) is a unique opportunity to bring to life a culture of sustainability encompassing the three pillars of sustainability supported by mutually enriching interactions between the arts and sciences.
Greening WTO Agreements to stop Climate Warming
Raymond Saner, 5th July 2013
Radical new approaches are urgently needed to reverse climate warming and to prevent the world from committing “ecocide” through environmental destruction. The radical new solutions proposed in this policy study go beyond the incremental change of current policy practice and instead suggest the need for a discontinuous change as the only means of halting the pervasive “tinkering along” approach of mainstream policy making which have not been able to bring about a halt to climate warming. This policy paper assesses the various attempts of state and non-state actors to cope with climate change and argues that a radically new approach is needed within the WTO agreements to generate solutions that have sufficient weight and treaty power to bring about a new and credible approach towards halting and reversing of climate warming.
Building on previous analysis and recommendations, this policy study discusses the interface between multilateral agreements on trade and on climate change and suggests that the WTO is the only multilateral institution which can effectively generate legal constraints and political will to stop climate warming. This policy study proposes an intra-regime solution within the WTO agreement in order to elicit the green investments and green production needed to successfully implement climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The following questions are addressed by this policy study: Which are the international economic governance options to effectively stop climate warming? Which are the main disciplines within the WTO Agreements addressing environment, trade, investment and intellectual property? What can be changed within the WTO Agreements to foster a green economy in developed and developing countries? What does the WTO case law say about disputes involving environment, trade, and investment?
Sustainable Development: Post-2015 Implications A closer look at the SDG and MDG processes
Synopsis
The objective of this paper was to analyze the emerging scope of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the successor development instrument to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) which are scheduled to end by 2015. The top priorities of the stakeholders involved in the processes include poverty eradication, water sanitation, energy, economic growth, green growth, governance, and employment. Current trends appear to favour a progression of the shaping and negotiation process which goes beyond the established MDG goals.
“The Expert Negotiator” 4th Edition
“The success of a negotiation is not a coincidence, but the result of careful planning. A person who has reflected and written about negotiations is Raymond Saner, a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and lecturer at the prestigious Institute of Political Science of Paris (Sciences Po ). He has been for more than 20 years a consultant to the United Nations on the impact of globalization. These topics and challenges brought him to Bolivia, where he worked with dedication and left with many friends and colleagues.”
Global Economic Governance from the Perspective of a “Small State”
Global Economic Governance from the Perspective of a “Small State” – Economic Diplomacy of Switzerland
Published by the Economic Diplomacy Programme, SAIIA, Occasional Paper, No 124, November 2012.
Accessible at website
The paper introduces three key concepts, namely economic diplomacy, multi-actor and multi-institutional negotiations, and inter-ministerial economic policymaking. It applies these concepts to describe and analyse Switzerland’s economic diplomacy behaviour and strategy in the field of financial services and in its relation to the Group of Twenty and other international organisations. The paper describes and analyses Switzerland’s economic governance and economic diplomacy options in the field of international finance. It identifies the core Swiss interests and Switzerland’s contribution to global economic governance, with particular reference to the Group of Twenty; and addresses the channels through which these interests are pursued, for example, through the Global Governance Group and other institutions.