Global Governance articles from January 2002

Global Governance archives from January 2002

The messy afterlife of colonialism. (Global Insights).
January 1, 2002... It is, thankfully, no longer fashionable in most of the developing world to decry the evils of colonialism in assigning blame for every national misfortune. The imperial statues have been toppled, cities and streets renamed, the vestiges of a...

Rediscovering the state. (Global Insights).
January 1, 2002... Simply put, our post-war institutions were built for an inter-national world, but we now live in a global world. Kofi Annan There may have been a time when both the theory and the practice of world affairs was too state centric, when...

NATO, Kosovo, and military intervention. (Global Insights).
January 1, 2002... War is hell," said General William T. Sherman at the end of the American Civil War. Nevertheless, war is alive and well, an unpleasant but faithful companion of the human species. But its face has changed. Modem technology offers new ways and...

Justice and international organization: Two models of global governance.
January 1, 2002... Recent events suggest that justice is a central yet neglected element in the theory and practice of international organization. For example, in March 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) launched a war in Yugoslavia to curb the...

Legitimacy, power, and the symbolic life of the UN Security Council.(United Nations )
January 1, 2002... The Charter of the United Nations gives the Security Council enormous formal powers, but it does not give it direct control of the tools with which to enact those powers. As many have noted, much of the power of the Council is contingent on the...

The two faces of the United Nations: The tension between intergovernmentalism and transnationalism.
January 1, 2002... There is a tension within the United Nations between intergovernmentalism and transnationalism, two forces that encompass different sets of interests and reflect distinct constituencies. As an intergovernmental institution, the UN reflects the...

UN conferences and constructivist governance of the environment.
January 1, 2002... In this article I review the history of global environmental conferences and draw political lessons about their broader role in constructing efforts at global environmental governance. I also examine the future of global conference diplomacy...

The emerging roles of NGOs in the UN system: From article 71 to a people's millennium assembly.
January 1, 2002... The relations between the UN system and what is referred to as civil society are dynamically growing and changing. In this article I focus on five aspects: (1) evolving procedures for UN--nongovernmental organization (NGO) relations presided...

Justice and truth in transition. (Review Essay).
January 1, 2002... Gary Jonathan Bass, Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 402 pp. Richard J. Goldstone, For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator (New Haven: Yale...