Global Governance articles from January 2008

Global Governance archives from January 2008

The John W. Holmes lecture: can the UN be reformed?(Essay)
January 1, 2008... UN secretaries-general are infamous for their reform initiatives. Each new secretary-general has paraded plans to change the organization, and follow-on initiatives have continuously cascaded down from his thirty-eighth-floor office, so that by...

Courting the rule of law? The International Criminal Court and global terrorism.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Many concerns have arisen regarding the war on terrorism, including the loss of US credibility and the brutal treatment by the US military of detained suspects. Winning this war is arguably the most important objective for some policymakers and...

Law overruled: strengthening the rule of law in postconflict states.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... The rule of law can be seen as an ideological product of Western political thought, closely associated at its origin with the writings of John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu. Locke started with the idea of natural law, in which man had...

Globalization rules: accountability, power, and the prospects for global administrative law.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... In the space of a generation, the term globalization has passed from neologism to cliche. As a commercial phenomenon and a political reality, the elision of traditional borders between countries has opened economies and transformed the context...

North-South parity in global governance: the affirmative procedures of the Forest Stewardship Council.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... When addressing the Stakeholder Forum of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) in 1999, Richard Falk noted that "it may turn out that what is most memorable about this Commission is that it has successfully initiated an inclusive democratic...

Transparency, accountability, and global governance.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Few concepts have come to enjoy more popularity in international policymaking circles than transparency. It has become the international community's standard response to accountability concerns at international institutions, appearing in the...

The UN secretary-general and norm entrepreneurship: Boutros Boutros-Ghali and democracy promotion.
January 1, 2008... Through his last few years in office, Kofi Annan found himself weathering an almost constant storm of controversy. Following his "annus horribilis" (1) of 2004, things scarcely improved, with the reputation of the Secretariat being severely...

Climate change and global environmental governance.(REVIEW ESSAY)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Global Environmental Institutions (New York: Routledge, 2006). James Gustave Speth and Peter M. Haas, Global Environmental Governance (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006). Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie, and...