Global Governance articles from April 2004

Global Governance archives from April 2004

Asia, U.S. primacy, and global governance.(Global Insights)
April 1, 2004... The Bush administration faces mounting criticisms about its war in Iraq and post-September 11 agenda. (1) The period since late 2001 has witnessed a striking dissipation of worldwide sympathy for America and a growth in popular resistance to...

Crisis in Cancun.(Global Insights)
April 1, 2004... In opulent surroundings, representatives of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) 146 member states met 10-14 September 2003 in Cancun to discuss progress in the so-called development round--officially the Doha Development Agenda--named after...

After Iraq: the EU and global governance.(Global Insights)
April 1, 2004... One of the central motivations for the Convention on the Future of Europe was to devise a way for the European Union (EU) to play a stronger and more effective role on the world stage. In spite of the Union's leadership on Kyoto, the Doha...

Agreeing to disagree: Security Council Resolution 1441 and intentional ambiguity.
April 1, 2004... United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441, adopted unanimously on 8 November 2002, was initially celebrated as reflecting a newfound sense of unity and resolve among the Council's fifteen members. (1) The Council recalled its previous...

The politics of global health governance: whatever happened to "health for all by the year 2000"?
April 1, 2004... The discourse on global health governance (GHG) has received a significant boost in the context of the renewed efforts to tackle the global acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic. Although there is a large body of literature that...

Is WTO dispute settlement effective?
April 1, 2004... The World Trade Organization (WTO) has become one of the most controversial international institutions, as evidenced by the massive protests in Seattle in November 1999. (1) Curiously, both the defendants and the critics of the WTO seem to...

Transnational civil society and the national identity question in East Asia.
April 1, 2004... The institutions of civil society play diverse roles in developing and maintaining democracy--that is, the process of democratization--and perform different functions in relation to the national identity/boundary question. (1) A growing...

Viva vox populi.(Review Essay)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Commission on Human Security, Human Security Now: Protecting and Empowering People (New York: Commission on Human Security, 2003), 159 pp. J. L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane, eds., Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal, and...