Global Governance articles from July 2000

Global Governance archives from July 2000

The World Bank Inspection Panel: Lessons from the First Five Years.
July 1, 2000... In 1993, the World Bank's board of directors responded to international environmental and human rights critics by creating a precedent-setting public accountability mechanism. Local-global civil society advocacy networks found allies in donor...

Toward a Multilateral Competition Policy Regime?
July 1, 2000... The multilateral economic system contains a major shortcoming. Although governments have committed themselves to a rule-based multilateral trade policy regime in the World Trade Organization (WTO), private companies that operate in the global...

Unilateralism and Multilateralism in International Fisheries Management.
July 1, 2000... Traditional international relations theory suggests that unilateral action in pursuit of the national interest should be the first preference of states in an anarchical international system. [1] Empirically speaking, however, the actions of...

U.S. Unilateralism at the UN: Why Great Powers Do Not Make Great Multilateralists.
July 1, 2000... The 1990s saw a renewed interest by U.S. scholars in multilateralism as an important institution in international affairs. These scholars may have been sparked by former president George Bush's call for a new world order in which the U.S....

Globalization, Security, and Migration: The Case of Turkey.
July 1, 2000... The idea that intense processes of globalization force us to rethink the state-centric approach to the issue of security in the post--Cold War era is gaining currency in both academic and public discourse. The world is no longer marked by the...