Global Governance articles from July 2004

Global Governance archives from July 2004

Weapons of mass destruction and the United Nations.(Global Insights)
July 1, 2004... What Happened in Iraq? The Success Story of UN Inspections This is an extraordinarily important moment for the United Nations. Before attention is lost in the controversies over the war itself and in the challenges of its aftermath,...

Washington's exceptionalism and the United Nations.(Global Insights)
July 1, 2004... It is still too early to be definitive about what the U.S.-led action in Iraq will mean for the future of Iraqis, for regional stability, and for the United Nations. Answers will have to wait until the future of Iraq itself is clearer,...

Better with the UN? Searching for peace and governance in Iraq.(Global Insights)
July 1, 2004... It was not our intention to go to Baghdad. And, had we done that, we would have gotten ourselves into the biggest quagmire you can imagine trying to sort out 2000 years of Mesopotamian history. --Colin Powell, 1991 (1) A...

Participatory intervention.
July 1, 2004... The front line for international interventions that exercise any degree of political authority in transition has proved to be at the level of local administration. Here, the Western-style paradigm of state building, which is preoccupied with...

Crossing the boundary from the international to the domestic legal realm: UNMIK lawmaking and property rights in Kosovo.(United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo )
July 1, 2004... Considering that the resolution of property issues is often pivotal for the success of a peacebuilding process in a postconflict situation, it is surprising that the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) is so far the...

Improving international peacebuilding efforts: the example of human rights culture in Kosovo.
July 1, 2004... Kosovo today is a house of cards. One false move and the house will fall down. Should the international troops--in particular the U.S. and British troops--pull out of Kosovo, it will collapse into communal violence. (1) The international...

The scale of assessments of the UN budget: a case study of how the United States exercises its leverage in a multilateral setting.
July 1, 2004... This article describes events that took place some three years ago, in the waning days of the Clinton administration. The issue at hand was to reduce the United States' contribution to both the regular and the peacekeeping budgets of the United...

Spatial dimensions of global governance.(Review Essay)(Bibliography)
July 1, 2004... Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon Macleod, State/Space: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003), 355 pp. Saskia Sassen, ed., Global Networks, Linked Cities (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), 368 pp. Allen J....