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16 April 2005 | Draft Meta-challenges of the Future for Networking through Think-tanks - / - Prepared on behalf of the Union of International Associations, with Nadia McLaren, for a Workshop on Networking the Future: Think Tanks and Building a European Knowledge Platform (Conference on the Futures of Europeans in the Global Knowledge Society, Louvain-la-Neuve, 13-14 April 2005). The presentation was based on a paper on "Tank-thoughts" from "Think-tanks": metaphors constraining development of global governance (2003). The presentation is available in several forms: PDF (Adobe, links active) (3.5 mb) Powerpoint presentation as set of web documents (uses frames; best with Internet Explorer) (3.7 mb)

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