Global Governance articles from October 2004

Global Governance archives from October 2004

Millennium development goals: why they matter.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
October 1, 2004... Many development goals have been set by the United Nations since the first "development decade" of the 1960s. What is new about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? First, an unprecedented assembly of the world's heads of state generated...

Citizenship, political violence, and democratization in Africa.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
October 1, 2004... The denial of full citizenship rights to selected individuals and groups in Africa has triggered political violence. In many instances, these conflicts have slowed down the democratization process, which is essential for pulling Africa out of...

Blind spots in analyzing Africa's place in world politics.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
October 1, 2004... In discussions of sub-Saharan Africa's relations with the outside world, critiques suggesting that the continent's elites are simply the victims of structural pressures and hence bereft of responsibility for Africa's current predicament are...

Modes of regional governance in Africa: neoliberalism, sovereignty boosting, and shadow networks.
October 1, 2004... The profound implications of globalization, regionalization, and the restructuring of the nation-state have made it necessary to transcend the conventional obsession with national government and recognize the emergence of new and revised...

Social capital building as capacity for postconflict development: the UNDP in Mozambique and Rwanda.
October 1, 2004... In this article, I intend to conceptualize two postconflict reconstruction projects supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as efforts in social capital development in postconflict situations. I specifically focus on the...

The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: an innovation in international standard setting.
October 1, 2004... In the last decade of the twentieth century, an explosion of civil wars brought a pressing new problem onto the international agenda--the plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs), people forced from their homes by conflict, communal...

Private sector influence in the multilateral system: a changing structure of world governance?
October 1, 2004... One of the most significant changes in the multilateral system in recent years is increased private sector participation. There has been a substantial increase in both scale and impact of interaction as new forms of cooperation have emerged....

The Commonwealth(s) and global governance.
October 1, 2004... The Commonwealth as an inter-governmental organization has not been studied with any reference to the growing literature on multilateralism. (1) The Commonwealth is a unique grouping, embracing developed, developing...

Multilateralism and the Non-Aligned Movement: what is the global South doing and where is it going?
October 1, 2004... Final Document of the XIII Conference of Heads of State of Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (1) (Kuala Lumpur, 24-25 February 2003), 76 pp. Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner, ed., The Foreign Policies of the Global South: Rethinking...