Global Governance articles from January 2001

Global Governance archives from January 2001

What Is Our Niche?
January 1, 2001... Global Governance was established in 1994 to publish high-quality scholarship on the role of international institutions in world politics and to foster debate around this general theme. Its primary aim has been to publish refereed articles that...

UN Peacekeeping: Lessons Learned?(United Nations)
January 1, 2001... The crisis that confronted the UN's peacekeeping operation in Sierra Leone in 2000 was a sad commentary on lessons learned, those not learned, and those forgotten over five decades of peacekeeping. The UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)...

Human Security and Global Governance: Putting People First.
January 1, 2001... The meaning of security is being transformed. Security traditionally has focused on the state because its fundamental purpose is to protect its citizens. Hobbled by economic adversity, outrun by globalization, and undermined from within by bad...

Transparency International and Corruption as an Issue of Global Governance.
January 1, 2001... The globalization of economies, politics, and culture has broken down traditional barriers of governance. A growing number of issues that were formerly the exclusive responsibility and prerogative of national or regional governments are...

NGOs, Business, and International Investment: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment, Seattle, and Beyond.(non-governmental organizations)
January 1, 2001... Until the 1990s, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), predecessor of the World Trade Organization (WTO), facilitated international trade negotiations with relatively little attention from the international media. Of course, there...

Remodeling the Multilateral Financial Institutions.
January 1, 2001... Since the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank were first established in 1946, the world economy has changed in a number of important ways. [1] Not only have the volume, composition, and pattern of world trade changed, but...

Impacts of Overlapping International Regimes: The Case of Biodiversity.
January 1, 2001... Recent decades have witnessed an upsurge in transborder environmental problems, as well as the creation of a large number of international arrangements to meet these challenges. From this has come scientific and political interest in...