Global Governance articles from July 2008

Global Governance archives from July 2008

The downside of celebrity diplomacy: the neglected complexity of development.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
July 1, 2008... Celebrities have become important participants in the debate on the future of development. The Irish rock star Paul Hewson, better known as Bono, is not only the front man of the band U2 but has also become the champion of an antipoverty...

Beyond one image fits all: Bono and the complexity of celebrity diplomacy.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
July 1, 2008... The previous article, by Heribert Dieter and Rajiv Kumar, raises a number of issues about the role of celebrities in global governance. Although the performance of this self-selected cast of performers remains highly contentious, it must be...

Promoting global accountability: the experiences of the Global Accountability Project.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
July 1, 2008... The One World Trust (OWT) is a think tank that conducts research and advocacy into ways of making global governance more accountable. For the past eight years its Global Accountability Project (GAP) has focused on generating awareness of and...

Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: background, context, and issues.(Essay)
July 1, 2008... The current global agreement governing food aid--the Food Aid Convention (FAC)--has been subject to annual renewals since it expired in 2002. Critics have pointed to some serious limitations, but negotiations over a new FAC have become...

Governing global slums: the biopolitics of Target 11.(Essay)
July 1, 2008... Recent literature has focused on the ways in which civil society organizations are contributing to practices of global governance in an era of neo-liberalism. As UN Habitat has pointed out, what has also coincided with the shift to...

Unclear ends, unclear means: reintegration in postwar societies--the case of Liberia.(Essay)
July 1, 2008... In this article, I argue that the meaning and use of reintegration, both as a concept and a postconflict peacebuilding practice, is overloaded and unclear, thus contributing to problematic policy responses and impeding accountability. I draw on...

Rights to govern lives in postdisaster reconstruction processes.(Essay)
July 1, 2008... Natural disasters such as the 2004 tsunami, hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the 2006 South Asian earthquake; the postwar sites of Afghanistan and Iraq; and housing regeneration programs in the UK have allowed international institutions to...

The state of the art of the art of state building.(Essay)
July 1, 2008... From Sierra Leone to Solomon Islands, developed powers have undertaken a range of state-building interventions in the early years of this century. Two influences appear to shape the emerging state of the art on state building: conceptions about...

Private institutions and Business Power in Global Governance.(Transnational Private Governance and its Limits )(Business Power in Global Governance )(Private Institutions and Global Governance)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Graz, Jean-Christophe, and Andreas Nolke, eds., Transnational Private Governance and its Limits (London and New York: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, 2008). Fuchs, Doris. Business Power in Global Governance (Boulder,...