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Student Competition: Best Opinion Article

Three questions should be addressed:

1. What will global governance look like in 2020? Who will be the major actors? Will international institutions be strengthened, or will governance increasingly be non-institutionally driven, such as through local actors, civil society, and the exchange of best practice?
2. What should global governance look like in 2020?
3. How do you bridge the gap between the developments that you foresee, and the way you would like to shape the world? Formulate a solution-oriented argument.

Illustrate your argument with regard to one of these categories:

• Institutions (governments, international organizations, NGOs, foundations) / Decision-making Processes
• Trade / Finance
  
• Security / Human Rights
  
• Environment / Climate Change / Energy

Awards

The best opinion article in each of the categories will be awarded a prize of US$ 200. Further, the winners, as well as all shortlisted articles, will be published on atlantic-community.org, as well as in a memorandum, which will be distributed to decision makers.

Guidelines for writing and submitting the opinion article

Please submit your article through the website. Simply register to create an account and profile for free under the following link:

http://www.atlantic-community.org/index/users/register

You can then submit your op-ed by clicking the “submit article” button on the front page.

Your op-ed should be no more than 700 words long, must be written in English, and submitted in one part. We welcome strong theses and provocative arguments.

Eligible Participants

The contest is open to university students, both undergraduate and graduate level. Participants must be registered at Atlantic-Community.org. Their profile must include a personal picture (as all articles on the website are published with an author portrait), as well as the relevant information about their course of study.

Deadline

All opinion articles must be submitted by January 5, 2009.

November 17, 2008

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The ecclesiates in the Bible notes somewhere that there is nothing that has NOT been said before. Would it be like the often heard pessimism-passing-for-nonchalance or insouciance in the French expression that 'Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose'? There is a classical difference between the former and the latter and have different but very valid reasons behind them.
Any idea for global governance and its vision must need take the two expressions into its account - for the philosophical and pragmatic reasons that lie behind them. For global governance - the question becomes of "What it will be like?" to "What it should be like?". What we do have here is the question "What it will be like?". Could not resist wanting to write here and then am simply leaving the ground for students - for far fresher and far better ideas and opinions.

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