Global Governance articles from October 2003

Global Governance archives from October 2003

Global health and international security.(Global Insights)
October 1, 2003... Historically in the West, disease was often seen as an impediment to exploration and a challenge to winning a war. Cholera and other diseases killed at least three times more soldiers in the Crimean War than did the actual conflict. Malaria,...

Reproductive tourism in Europe: infertility and human rights.(Global Insights)
October 1, 2003... The rapid development of health and health-related technologies poses substantial challenges to global and regional institutions beyond the usual attention given to pandemic disease, malnutrition, and sanitation standards. Given the mobility of...

The international regulation of money laundering.(Global Insights)
October 1, 2003... This vile paper-money and funding system; this system of Dutch descent, begotten by Bishop Burnet and born in hell; this system has turned everything into a gamble. There are hundreds of men who live by being the agents to carry on gambling......

The role of the UN secretary-general: the power of persuasion based on law.
October 1, 2003... In an address to the UN General Assembly on 12 September 2002, delivered fifteen minutes before President Bush's statement on Iraq, the secretary-general (SG) made it clear that he believed new military action against Iraq should occur only on...

Women and gender equality in peace processes: from women at the negotiating table to postwar structural reforms in Guatemala and Somalia.
October 1, 2003... The role of women in conflict resolution and peacebuilding is increasingly emphasized in multilateral policy discourse. Following the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, which called for increased participation of women in conflict resolution at...

How "new" are "new wars"? Global economic change and the study of civil war.
October 1, 2003... Attempts to comprehend, through empirical inquiry and philosophical reflection, the likely effects of deeper, seemingly unstoppable processes of socioeconomic change on patterns of violent conflict within and across societies are not new....

Are sanctions meant to work? The politics of creating and implementing sanctions through the United Nations.
October 1, 2003... Sanctions, it has often been said, stand between statements and soldiers. In situations where something more than a diplomatic dressing down is required, but where a military response is either inappropriate or impossible, sanctions are...

From Dumb to Smart? Recent reforms of UN Sanctions.
October 1, 2003... United Nations, Report of the Panel of Experts on Violations of Security Council Sanctions Against UNITA. Document S/2000/203, New York, 10 March 2000 (available online at www.un.org/News/dh/latest/angolareport_eng.htm), also called the Fowler...