Global Governance articles from January 2004

Global Governance archives from January 2004

The politics of international administration.
January 1, 2004... In the summer of 2003, as the mounting costs and difficulties facing U.S. and British forces in Iraq became ever more apparent, ministers and officials responded to growing international criticism by invoking a plea: the challenge of...

International administration of war-torn societies.(Global Insights)
January 1, 2004... There is nothing wholly new under the sun. Examples of international administration can be found in the early and mid-twentieth century--and even the late nineteenth, if one counts the infamous International African Association used by the King...

Legitimacy and effectiveness in international administration.(Global Insights)
January 1, 2004... International administration is usually a deferment. For the people being administered, full independence, which may have been deferred or suppressed in the past, remains just out of reach. Moreover, the frustrations of the past merge with...

International engagement in war-torn countries.
January 1, 2004... How should we understand the international administration of war-torn territories? A couple of caveats are necessary at the outset. I shall not deal with practical issues involved in making international administrations effective or successful;...

The political challenges of administering Eastern Slavonia.
January 1, 2004... The United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES) was established by the Security Council on 15 January 1996 and ended on 15 January 1998. Given the task of administering a disputed...

International authority and state building: the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
January 1, 2004... State building refers to efforts to reconstruct, or in some cases to establish for the first time, an effective indigenous government in a state or territory where no such capacity exists or where the capacity has been seriously eroded. How...

The UN as Government in Kosovo.
January 1, 2004... United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999 (Resolution 1244) envisaged the withdrawal from Kosovo of all the military, police, and paramilitary forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Yugoslavia) together with a...

UNTAET with hindsight: the peculiarities of politics in an incomplete state.
January 1, 2004... In the rather chaotic history of UN peacekeeping operations, where results have not always matched the efforts of the international community, East Timor stands as an undeniable success. In two and a half years, from...

Third World perspectives on humanitarian intervention and international administration.
January 1, 2004... Three points are fundamental to the understanding of third world perspectives on the international administration of war-torn territories. First, it must be recognized that Third World perspectives on this issue are linked in substantial...

Between exit and engagement: on the division of authority in transitional administrations.(Review Essay)
January 1, 2004... "Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo," S/1999/779, 12 July 1999, available online at http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/reports/1999/s1999779.htm (accessed 29 November 2000). William G....