Global Governance articles from January 1 2009

Global Governance archives from January 1 2009

Special forum: crisis and the future of global financial governance.
January 1, 2009... Introduction Financial crises often act as a catalyst for important changes in global financial governance. We are currently living through such a crisis, one that is in fact the worst since the Great Depression. And true to historical...

Why international institutions matter in the global credit crisis.
January 1, 2009... The global dimensions of the credit crisis of 2008 have become increasingly apparent. Bank failures, credit freeze-ups, and sharp stock market declines have spread well beyond the borders of the United States, the original epicenter of the...

An end to global standards and codes?
January 1, 2009... In the wake of financial crises in the 1990s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and G7 officials, along with private sector financial actors, launched an effort to develop and promulgate a set of standards and codes to govern global...

Reregulation and fragmentation in international financial governance.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Every global financial crisis generates new regulatory responses. What kinds of responses are emerging so far from the crisis that began in 2007? How are these responses similar to or different from those that followed the last major crisis of...

The subprime accountability deficit and the obstacles of international standards setting.
January 1, 2009... Today's financial crisis has triggered some of the largest bank failures in history, including Washington Mutual and Fortis, as well as substantial instability throughout US, European, and Asian banking markets. Bank failures around the globe...

Information and Communication Technologies for Development: a critical perspective.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)(Report)
January 1, 2009... For more or less a decade now, the issue of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) has been high on the global policy agenda. The efforts of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), which was established in 1997 as a...

Supranational citizenship building and the United Nations: is the UN engaged in a "citizenization" process?(Report)
January 1, 2009... The citizenship concept is not absent from UN discourse. However, the use of the term is limited to a conception of citizenship systematically associated to the state; terms such as supranational citizenship or UN citizenship are not part of...

The G-20 and international economic governance: hegemony, collectivism, or both?(Group of 20)(Report)
January 1, 2009... Following the East Asian crisis of 1997-1998, much attention was paid to financial sector reform. While little of substance has changed in the intervening years, a number of potentially important new forums were established to facilitate...

Nonstate actors in the international legal order: the Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict and the law of self-defense.(Report)
January 1, 2009... The concern of whether nonstate actors can undertake an "armed attack" that would trigger a state's right to self-defense has acquired new prominence in the post-September 11 world. This article addresses that concern by examining the...

Global public goods: critique of a UN discourse.(United Nations)(Report)
January 1, 2009... The concept of global public goods has been advanced as a way of understanding certain transborder and global problems and the need for a coordinated international response. It has been used to describe everything from global environment,...

The "third" United Nations.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Analysts usually identify two United Nations, one composed of member states and a second composed of the secretariats. A third UN should also be recognized, composed of actors that are closely associated with the world organization but not...

The Iraq War and Global Governance.(books on the Iraq War)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... David Malone, The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005, Oxford University Press, 2006. Ramesh Thakur and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu (eds.), The Iraq Crisis and World Order: Structural, Institutional,...