Global Governance articles from January 2007

Global Governance archives from January 2007

The John W. Holmes lecture: Building Peace.(Viewpoint essay)
January 1, 2007... In Making War and Building Peace, Nicholas Sambanis and I conducted a large-scale comparative study of success and failure in peacebuilding after civil war. (1) The study assumes that every peacebuilding effort, like every civil war, is...

Healing broken societies: can aid buy love and peace?(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
January 1, 2007... We live in a world where concern for the human condition is big business and, in the epoch of terror, a matter for global strategic interest. This is encapsulated in the Millennium Development Goals and is also central to the notion of human...

Performance measurement and global governance: the experience of the World Bank.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
January 1, 2007... Performance management and performance measurement have become central topics in public sectors across the globe. Dissatisfaction with the performance of government organizations has become a pervasive element in the world we live in....

Peacebuilding: what is in a name?
January 1, 2007... This article surveys and analyzes twenty-four governmental and intergovernmental bodies that are currently active in peacebuilding in order to, first, identify critical differences in how they conceptualize and operationalize their mandate,...

When unilateralism is invisible: a different perspective on the oil-for-food scandal.
January 1, 2007... The United States has long had an ambivalent relation to multilateralism. This has been particularly evident in the claims made by the United States against the United Nations regarding the oil-for-food program. These accusations maintained...

A "garbage can model" of UN peacekeeping.
January 1, 2007... To explain the post-Cold War transformation of peacekeeping, I employ a "garbage can model" of agenda-setting to explain how peacekeeping came to be considered, in the context of the UN Security Council's agenda, an appropriate solution to...

Military intervention and the humanitarian "force multiplier".
January 1, 2007... Recent military interventions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq have sparked controversy by using humanitarian aid to further military goals. In 1999, NATO forces set up refugee camps for fleeing Kosovars, even as NATO fighter pilots attacked...

Primacy and grand strategic beliefs in US unilateralism.
January 1, 2007... What is the relationship between unipolar power and unilateralism? A debate is emerging over the character and logic of international order under US primacy, led by the Bush administration's perceived privileging of unilateralism as an...

Future prospects for the United Nations.(Irrelevant or Indispensable? the United Nations in the 21st Century)(The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations)(The United Nations and Its Future in the 21st Century)(The United Nations, Peace and Security)(The United Nations: Confronting the Challenges of a Global Society)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Paul Heinbecker and Patricia Goff, eds., Irrelevant or Indispensable? The United Nations in the 21st Century (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005), 196 pp. Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of...