Global Governance articles from January 2006

Global Governance archives from January 2006

Global governance: looking ahead, 2006-2010.
January 1, 2006... As is customary, new journal editors open their term of office with a statement of visions and aspirations for the journal that they have undertaken to promote. The following statement sets out the aims, conceptions, and practices that the...

The World Social Forum: reinventing global politics.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
January 1, 2006... As this issue of Global Governance goes into circulation, the World Social Forum (WSF) will mark its fifth anniversary. A novel experiment in global citizenship, these gatherings have grown from 10,000 at the inaugural meeting in January 2001...

Giving the emperor real clothes: the UN Human Rights Council.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)(United Nations)
January 1, 2006... In April 2005, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) of the United Nations received one of its final deathblows from the secretary-general. In his 2005 report, In Larger Freedom, Kofi Annan stated that politicization and selectivity had...

Local research, global governance: a challenge for institutional design.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)(Global Development Network)
January 1, 2006... This article explores a generic issue in the context of a specific case, that of the Global Development Network (GDN). The issue is this: How can a global, centralized organization help build the capacity of local, independent institutions and...

Legitimacy, transparency, and information technology: the World Trade Organization in an era of contentious trade politics.
January 1, 2006... The legitimacy of international trade rule making and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been subjects of increasing debate. Nongovernmental organizations, in particular, have criticized the lack of democratic accountability and thus the...

The Global Compact: shifting the politics of international development?
January 1, 2006... The UN Global Compact epitomizes the current state of the politics of international development in three distinct ways. First, the Compact illustrates a major turn in development thinking. After decades of hostile relations, the UN and business...

The World Bank as a transnational expertised institution.
January 1, 2006... The World Bank has become an expertised transnational institution and thus subject to the problems of expertise identified by social studies of science. The legitimacy and credibility of the Bank's expertise is drawn through a circular process...

Possible future architectures of global governance: a transnational perspective/prospective.
January 1, 2006... Several (normative-analytic) images of (future) global governance architectures are identified. If realized, any of these images would indeed be preferable to the current world (dis)order, as they all fulfill certain core progressive values....