Global Governance articles from October 2005

Global Governance archives from October 2005

How not to reform the United Nations.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
October 1, 2005... Midway through the most ambitious reform drive in United Nations history, it is high time to revisit and hopefully relearn some of the more painful lessons of past reform campaigns. None of this is rocket science--or string theory, to be more...

How to help reform multilateral institutions: an eight-step program for more effective collective action.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
October 1, 2005... Dissension over Iraq in 2003 challenged the legitimacy and effectiveness of the UN. It also highlighted long-standing problems that previous UN institutional reform efforts had failed to resolve. Kofi Annan has been a reforming...

A tale of two mesas: the OAS defense of democracy in Peru and Venezuela.(Organization of American States)
October 1, 2005... In recent years, the Organization of American States has charted new terrain in the defense and promotion of democracy. Most significantly, it intervened in Peru (2000) and in Venezuela (2002-2004). The centerpiece of both initiatives was the...

Global good Samaritans? Human rights foreign policy in Costa Rica.
October 1, 2005... When and why do certain states help to promote and enforce human rights at the global level? As the constructivist approach suggests, for global citizen states the principled pursuit of human rights is not exceptional altruism, but rather a...

The political economy of food aid in an era of agricultural biotechnology.
October 1, 2005... Recent years have seen numerous rejections of food aid containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The United States, as the principal donor of this aid, went on the defensive and blamed the European Union for hunger in developing...

Asian financial cooperation: the problem of legitimacy in global financial governance.
October 1, 2005... In this article, I show an important connection between global financial governance and Asian regional financial governance. My findings suggest that unless the G7-dominated global financial institutions resolve the legitimacy problems, which...

Redistributing the burden of scientific uncertainty: implications of the precautionary principle for state and nonstate actors.
October 1, 2005... In this article, we use a case study of the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) to examine the role of the precautionary principle in international environmental law and policy. Our findings indicate that a major...

Swan song: from 7:1 to 11:4.
October 1, 2005... As we pass the baton to the incoming editors, it is useful to reflect on the past five years and to measure performance against goals set out in "What Is Our Niche?" (vol. 7, no. 1). We made clear our intention to build on the work of our...