Global Governance articles from April 2003

Global Governance archives from April 2003

Introduction: postconflict peacebuilding and democratization.
April 1, 2003... Scholars and practitioners have recently given increased attention to the intersection of two concepts: postconflict peacebuilding and democratization or, more broadly, governance. Several factors contribute to this development. First,...

Democratic governance: toward a framework for sustainable peace. (Global Insights).(United Nations Development Programme)
April 1, 2003... The events following the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States have refocused global attention, in an urgent manner, on the conditions for guaranteeing long-term peace within societies that have faced varying degrees of internal...

Deliverance from evil. (Global Insights).(government abuse of its citizens)
April 1, 2003... There are many perpetrators of evil in this suffering world. This article is about the evil perpetrated by governments that, because of flawed ideology, racial hatred, or lust for power, deliberately abuse their citizens' basic human rights. It...

Afghanistan: the way forward. (Global Insights).(Afghan National Development Framework)
April 1, 2003... Since the rout of the Taliban, after two and a half decades of nearly continuous conflict, Afghanistan has embarked on a complex triple transition: from war to peace; from a repressive, militaristic theocracy to a society based on democratic...

What the democratization literature says--or doesn't say--about postwar democratization.
April 1, 2003... Herodotus was probably right when he argued that wars make history, but whether and when wars make democracy remain open questions. The classics in the democratization literature are surprisingly reticent about the links between war and lasting...

International law and the entitlement to democracy after war.
April 1, 2003... Since the end of the Cold War, the international community has engaged in two tasks that run contrary to traditional notions of state sovereignty. The first is the reconstruction of domestic political institutions in states emerging from civil...

The helmet and the hoe: linkages between United Nations development assistance and conflict management.
April 1, 2003... Analysts frequently note that the UN was established in very different times, when interstate war dominated the international security agenda and the wave of decolonization had barely begun. The UN's membership was one-quarter the current size....

Western and local approaches to justice in Rwanda.
April 1, 2003... Rwanda represents an important test case for the emerging international postconflict agenda. The so-called international community has rarely invested so massively in justice and human rights as part of an attempt to restore peace and promote...

On democratization and peacebuilding.
April 1, 2003... The two subfields addressed in this article did not exist twenty years ago. Scholars had only begun to analyze the beginnings of the "third wave" of democratization in the early 1980s, and the term peacebuilding only gained currency in the...

Civil wars: what we don't know. (Review Essay).(negotiated resolution of conflict)
April 1, 2003... Why are some enduring civil conflicts resolved with essentially self-enforcing agreements, as in El Salvador and South Africa, while others seem unamenable to negotiated resolution even with extensive third-party intervention, as in Colombia...

Dimensions of postconflict peacebuilding and democratization. (Review Essay).(Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve)(Peacebuilding as Politics: Cultivating Peace in Fragile Societies)(Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid for Postconflict Recovery)(Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed)(Patronage or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian Crises)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Thomas Carothers, Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999), 411 pp. Elizabeth Cousens and Chetan Kumar, eds., Peacebuilding as Politics: Cultivating Peace in Fragile...