Global Governance articles from July 2006

Global Governance archives from July 2006

The UN and regional organizations in global security: competing or complementary logics?
July 1, 2006... What is the optimal relationship between global bodies and regional agencies in international security? This question has been intensively discussed at various junctures during the last century, including at the establishment of the United...

Enhancing global governance through regional integration.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
July 1, 2006... Global governance--governance for the world without world government--refers to cooperative problem-solving arrangements on a global plane. (1) These may be rules (laws, norms, codes of behavior) as well as constituted institutions and...

The origins of global civil society and nonterritorial governance: some empirical reflections.
July 1, 2006... In this article, we examine two possibly competing hypotheses on the origins of global civil society. The first suggests that global civil society has developed rationally over a long period of time, continuous with the development of domestic...

New moves in transnational advocacy: getting labor and economic rights on the agenda in unexpected ways.
July 1, 2006... Activists involved in human rights advocacy across borders may share common interests in changing the status quo--but they do not always agree on the rights centrally at issue, nor the best strategy for promoting and protecting them. This is...

Citizenship entitlements beyond borders? Identifying mechanisms of access and redress for affected publics in international environmental law.
July 1, 2006... I argue that although international law is state centric in nature, there is a growing body of international environmental law that allows at least some input from public actors in implementing key substantive and procedural obligations. The...

The Cardoso Report on the UN and civil society: functionalism, global corporatism, or global democracy?
July 1, 2006... The Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations-Civil Society Relations was published in June 2004. It strongly endorsed the case for wider participation of civil society in all aspects of the UN's work, both at the headquarters...

The UN Intellectual History Project: review of a literature.
July 1, 2006... In this article, I review the first seven volumes of an unprecedented history of ideas and the UN. This fascinating history covers oral interviews with key personalities as well as volumes on economic history, statistics, the regional...