Global Governance articles from July 2003

Global Governance archives from July 2003

Human security--protecting and empowering the people.(Global Insights)
July 1, 2003... Human insecurity dominates today's headlines: the ongoing conflicts in Palestine and Cote d'Ivoire; international terrorism and criminal networks; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; growing economic inequalities; and the apparent diminishing relevance of...

What UN principles? A U.S. debate on Iraq.(Global Insights)
July 1, 2003... The quality and depth of the broad public debate in the United States before Washington loosed its military might on Iraq suggests that the internalization of international norms in American political life is remarkably thin. Although no survey...

Globalizing criminal justice: challenges for the International Criminal Court.(Global Insights)
July 1, 2003... The decade-long experience of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) suggests that the newly operational International Criminal Court (ICC) will inevitably face challenges to its credibility and effectiveness. In...

The United Nations and globalization: patterns and limits of institutional adaptation.
July 1, 2003... The United Nations has struggled with the challenges of globalization for several years, especially since the Asian financial crisis. It has paid particular attention to the needs of developing countries, deemed least well equipped to cope. All...

National, regional, and global governance: one phenomenon or many?
July 1, 2003... Since the 1980s, the concept of governance has increasingly been employed to describe policymaking in the national, regional, and global arenas. Definitions and uses of governance, however, are as varied as the issues and levels of analysis to...

Universal jurisdiction for human rights: from legal principle to limited reality.
July 1, 2003... In the early 1600s, Grotius and other international legal scholars began to advance the idea that certain kinds of crimes should be subject to the jurisdiction of any court in the world, no matter where they were committed or by whom--a...

The case against a new international environmental organization.
July 1, 2003... [World Organizations] are credited with an importance they do not possess; they are blamed for not doing what they are not given the means to do; faults that are often imaginary are ascribed to them, while their real faults go unnoticed;...

Climate governance beyond the state.
July 1, 2003... When the new Bush administration, announced in March 2001 that the United States would abandon the 1997 Kyoto protocol, governments, media, and environmental organizations all launched major protests. The statement by John Prescott (UK deputy...

What is the future of humanitarianism?(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Larry Minear, The Humanitarian Enterprise: Dilemmas and Discoveries (Bloomfield, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2002), 285 pp. David Rieff, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (New York: Simon & Shuster, 2002), 367 pp. Fiona Terry,...