Global Governance articles from July 2001

Global Governance archives from July 2001

Humanitarian Intervention and International Society.
July 1, 2001... Humanitarian intervention is the current buzzword in international politics. Intrastate violence, especially when linked to the presumed abuse of human rights, has come to be considered a legitimate concern of the "international community."...

Human Security: A Shotgun Approach to Alleviating Human Misery?
July 1, 2001... Lloyd Axworthy penned an eloquent and thought-provoking essay in these pages about the necessity and utility of extending the concept of security "beyond the level of the state and toward individual human beings." [1] Axworthy is not alone in...

Human Solidarity and World Poverty.
July 1, 2001... Paradoxically, human solidarity reached a nadir at the close of the twentieth century, side-by-side with unprecedented globalization through the development and spread of instantaneous, electronic communication. In contrast, World War II was...

Markets, Politics, and Globalization: Can the Global Economy Be Civilized?
July 1, 2001... A great deal of nonsense has been written and said about globalization in recent years. Some has come from the political right, some from the political left, some from business and political leaders, some from non-governmental organizations...

Corporatism Goes Global: International Organizations, Nongovernmental Organization Networks, and Transnational Business.
July 1, 2001... In February 1998, an organization called the World Commission on Dams (WCD) was launched at a ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa. An independent commission that included members of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opposed to the...

Internationalization, Democracy, and Food Safety Measures: The (Il)Legitimacy of Consumer Preferences?
July 1, 2001... Reconciling internationalization with democracy is a matter of considerable interest and importance. As a mode of governance, democracy presumes the relevance of the territorial state; the geographic scope of those who exercise political...

Designing Effective Environmental Regimes: The Conditional Keys.
July 1, 2001... Are international regimes that have been established to solve environmental problems designed and operating as effectively as possible? Although the call for research addressing the design question has been increasing in intensity, [1] and a...

Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Transformation in the Global Community.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Rosemary Foot, Rights Beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 296 pp. Michael J. Perry, The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries (New York: Oxford University...