Journal of International Affairs articles from September 2003

Journal of International Affairs archives from September 2003

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September 22, 2003... What is the relationship between economic and political development--or to use the dominant ideology of our times, between economic liberalization and democracy? These tenets are a large part of the current conception of good governance, and it...

"Good governance": the metamorphosis of a policy metaphor: "governance" quickly became a household word, but as is often true of buzzwords, there has hardly been a consensus as to what it means, and even less of an idea as how it could be applied more concretely.(Concepts of Governance)
September 22, 2003... For well over a decade, the notion of good governance has served as a general guiding principle for donor agencies to demand that recipient governments adhere to proper administrative processes in the handling of development assistance and put...

Local and global: international governance and civil society: it is inconceivable that any Northern donor or international NGO could begin to match the diversity of experience and knowledge already extant within the Third World.(Concepts of Governance)
September 22, 2003... In a world increasingly beset by famines, wars, genocide, AIDs, environmental deterioration and continuing population momentum in the poor countries, the failed state has become the Achilles heel of the emerging international community. For...

The private side of global governance: the traditional role of institutions on the public side of global economic governance has been in meting out development assistance, not managing private sector activity. But new definitions of development and human security have pushed public institutions into uncharted terrain.(Concepts of Governance)
September 22, 2003... Globalization is not new. (1) People have exchanged ideas, goods and services across borders for centuries. The modern state system owes its development in part to the existence of firms that financed territorial and human conquest, settlement,...

Markets, workers and economic reforms: reconstructing East Asian labor systems: political opposition can be contained by some combination of economic coercion, market disorganization, tactical retreat, and police suppression, but the institutional tensions that underlie that opposition persist.(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)
September 22, 2003... To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings... indeed, even of the amount and use of purchasing power, would result in the demolition of society.' [Social] institutions... are disrupted by the very...

The precarious revolution: unchanging institutions and the fate of reform in Iran: Iranian politics is a system made by the clerics for the clerics, and for their supporters who possess a near monopoly on the spoils of the revolution and the country's resources.(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)
September 22, 2003... The Islamic revolution of 1979 was the result of a grand coalition of diverse forces united against the ancient regime. (1) Although the religious dimension eventually became supreme, the revolutionary process was much broader: it included...

Beyond the orthodox paradox: the breakup of state-business coalitions in 1980s Turkey: overly-insulated policies generates uncertainties about the reforms as well as the government's commitment to them, further exacerbating macroeconomic instabilities and making a long-term secure economic environment a distant prospect.(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)
September 22, 2003... For many developing countries, the 1980s and 1990s were turning points in which major political and social alliances were transformed by major shifts in economic policy, from protectionist import-substitution industrialization strategies (ISI)...

"If I do these things, they will throw me out": economic reform and the collapse of Indonesia's new order: why did the economic crisis in 1998 unseat Suharto when previous crises had not? Why did the military and political elites--Suharto's longstanding allies--finally abandon him?(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)
September 22, 2003... On 18 May 1998, the leadership of GOLKAR, the ruling party that had stood by Indonesian President Suharto's side through numerous crises, announced its intention to compel him to resign. On May 21, despite a statement of support for the...

Development without equality: an interview with Raul Domingos: we have to make sure that democracy is growing in a healthy way. If not, there's going to be a war between the poor who have political power and the rich, who have economic power. Practically speaking it will be as if we haven't done anything.(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)(Interview)
September 22, 2003... In the 1930s, after decades of effort, Portugal assumed control of Mozambique, denying Mozambicans both economic opportunity and political representation. In response, three banned opposition groups formed the Mozambican Liberation Front...

Institutionalizing global wars: state transformations in Colombia, 1978-2002: Colombian policy directed at its wars, paradoxically, narrows the government's margin of maneuver even as it tries to expand it.(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)
September 22, 2003... Colombia has been waging two interrelated but distinct wars since the late 1970s: its civil conflict and the war on drugs. On both accounts it is difficult to tell internal from external factors, but the distinction is important. (1) In...

In search of democratic governance in Central America: political parties are controlled by a handful of people who profit from running the parties in a patrimonial style, and there are narrow prospects for economic reforms. Why has so little progress been made?(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)
September 22, 2003... Governance embodies the most interesting aspects of the conflicting and unrelenting relationship between rulers and people, between citizens and institutions. The subject became particularly relevant to Latin American societies when they began...

Reaching for stability: strengthening civil society-donor partnerships in East Timor: too often in East Timor the need to spend donor funding dictates methodological choices, and the recipient of development funding becomes of secondary priority to donor reporting.(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)
September 22, 2003... The days of unity around a central and common enemy are over in East Timor. The one-year anniversary of independence has passed and challenges have emerged in every sector and across the country. While the vast majority of issues are not new,...

Healing governance? Four health NGOs in war-torn Eastern Congo: the most that health organizations can hope for is to contribute indirectly to better governance. But they can continue to save lives.(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)
September 22, 2003... Disasters visit Eastern Congo on a continual basis: war, volcanic eruptions, ethnic strife, epidemics, refugee inflows and perhaps worst of all, for most people, a lack of hope. Expatriates who initially work there with idealistic goals) end to...

Living without a government in Somalia: an interview with Mark Bradbury: development processes in Somalia exist not as a result of official development assistance, but in spite of it.(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)(Interview)
September 22, 2003... Journal: Somalia's cultural history is not unique in Africa-many countries had colonial structures of government imposed on them and managed to make the transition to states. Why did Somalia's state collapse so completely in relation to its...

Building a state in Iraq: is there a good precedent? An interview with Simon Chesterman: President Bush said that the American people were going to bring peace and prosperity to the people of Iraq, just as they had to the people of Afghanistan. This suggested that the benchmark was going to be very low.(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)(Interview)
September 22, 2003... Journal: What actors are involved in the modern state-building process? Chesterman: Well, it depends how you define state building, of course. If you mean actors providing support to institutions of the state for, during and after conflict...

Stabilizing Macedonia: conflict prevention, development and organized crime: organized crime in Macedonia will not be reduced until its poor are provided with a meaningful legitimate economic alternative.(The Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay)
September 22, 2003... Stability in the Balkans was a top foreign policy priority for the members of the European Union (EU) during most of the 1990s. EU policy makers pointed to nationalism, ethnic hatred, social inequalities, and human rights violations as the root...

Governance through Private Authority? Non-State Actors in World Politics.(reviews of two books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Private Authority and International Affairs Edited by A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999, 398 pages The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance ...

Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiabo Lu Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000, 282 pages In the last 20 years, the Chinese Communist Party's leadership has allowed China to reach levels of economic growth unparalleled in modern times,...

The Limits of Law: Essays on Democratic Governance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Peter H. Schuck Boulder: Westview Press, 2000, 492 pages Law is a crucial element of democratic governance. It reduces the potential for arbitrary rule by codifying citizen rights, obligations and protections while drawing lines...

Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Robert Keohane New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, 298 pages One of the leading political scientists of the past quarter-century, Robert O. Keohane hopes readers will recognize the path of his esteemed career in his latest collection of...