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Runaway globalization without governance.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
April 1, 2008... Globalization has been with us since the dawn of history, but the notion of trying to govern the interconnections that it has produced is a more recent phenomenon. Governance has thus developed slowly, lagging far behind the trade, travel, and...
What kind of international public service do we need for the Twenty-First century?(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)(Essay)
April 1, 2008... In the fall of 2007, at the Sixty-second General Assembly of the United Nations, where reform of the organization was a major issue, two ideas converged about the staff of the UN system. Ban Ki-moon, in his first report on the organization...
Conflict prevention and the Responsibility to Protect.(Essay)
April 1, 2008... Although the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty identified the responsibility to prevent as the single most important aspect of its report The Responsibility to Protect, most scholarly and political attention has...
North-South cooperation in the refugee regime:the role of linkages.(Essay)
April 1, 2008... This article explores the role of issue linkage in North-South relations in the global refugee regime between 1980 and 2005. It argues that North-South cooperation has been crucial for overcoming collective action failure in the regime....
Globalization, competition, and convergence: shipping and the race to the middle.
April 1, 2008... This article examines the impact of globalization on international environmental, safety, and labor standards through the lens of impact of open registration in shipping--the ability of shipowners to choose in which states to register their...
Myths of membership: The Politics of legitimation in UN Security Council Reform.
April 1, 2008... The need to expand the UN Security Council is usually justified as necessary to update Council membership in light of changes in world politics. The mismatch between the existing membership and the increasingly diverse population of states is...
Mitigating the moral hazard of Humanitarian Intervention:Lessons from Economics.
April 1, 2008... The emerging norm of humanitarian intervention, or the Responsibility to Protect, resembles a social insurance policy to protect ethnic groups against genocide and ethnic cleansing. If a state perpetrates such genocidal violence, the norm calls...
Funding the International Refugee Regime: Implications for Protection.(Essay)
April 1, 2008... Despite the abundance of literature on international regimes, little attention has been given to how they are funded and the impact of funding on regime performance. This article examines how donor funding has affected the underlying principle...