Recently added articles from Global Governance:
Special forum: crisis and the future of global financial governance.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction Financial crises often act as a catalyst for important changes in global financial governance. We are currently living through such a crisis, one that is in fact the worst since the Great Depression. And true to historical pattern, it is generating very heated ...
Why international institutions matter in the global credit crisis.
Jan 01, 2009; ... The global dimensions of the credit crisis of 2008 have become increasingly apparent. Bank failures, credit freeze-ups, and sharp stock market declines have spread well beyond the borders of the United States, the original epicenter of the crisis. What role, then, should international ...
An end to global standards and codes?
Jan 01, 2009; ... In the wake of financial crises in the 1990s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and G7 officials, along with private sector financial actors, launched an effort to develop and promulgate a set of standards and codes to govern global finance. While this effort has witnessed some success ...
Reregulation and fragmentation in international financial governance.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Every global financial crisis generates new regulatory responses. What kinds of responses are emerging so far from the crisis that began in 2007? How are these responses similar to or different from those that followed the last major crisis of 1997-1998? Arguably this crisis marks an ...
The subprime accountability deficit and the obstacles of international standards setting.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Today's financial crisis has triggered some of the largest bank failures in history, including Washington Mutual and Fortis, as well as substantial instability throughout US, European, and Asian banking markets. Bank failures around the globe will likely continue as housing markets ...
Information and Communication Technologies for Development: a critical perspective.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... For more or less a decade now, the issue of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) has been high on the global policy agenda. The efforts of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), which was established in 1997 as a multistakeholder network to promote ICT4D, ...
Supranational citizenship building and the United Nations: is the UN engaged in a "citizenization" process?(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The citizenship concept is not absent from UN discourse. However, the use of the term is limited to a conception of citizenship systematically associated to the state; terms such as supranational citizenship or UN citizenship are not part of the usual UN vocabulary. Does that mean that the ...
The G-20 and international economic governance: hegemony, collectivism, or both?(Group of 20)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Following the East Asian crisis of 1997-1998, much attention was paid to financial sector reform. While little of substance has changed in the intervening years, a number of potentially important new forums were established to facilitate international cooperation. By drawing on and ...
Nonstate actors in the international legal order: the Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict and the law of self-defense.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The concern of whether nonstate actors can undertake an "armed attack" that would trigger a state's right to self-defense has acquired new prominence in the post-September 11 world. This article addresses that concern by examining the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of July 2006. It argues that ...
Global public goods: critique of a UN discourse.(United Nations)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The concept of global public goods has been advanced as a way of understanding certain transborder and global problems and the need for a coordinated international response. It has been used to describe everything from global environment, international financial stability, and market ...
The "third" United Nations.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Analysts usually identify two United Nations, one composed of member states and a second composed of the secretariats. A third UN should also be recognized, composed of actors that are closely associated with the world organization but not formally part of it. This "outside-insider" UN ...
The Iraq War and Global Governance.(books on the Iraq War)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... David Malone, The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005, Oxford University Press, 2006. Ramesh Thakur and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu (eds.), The Iraq Crisis and World Order: Structural, Institutional, and Normative Challenges, United ...
Introduction: global governance of water.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Water is a key element of the earth system with all its geophysical, biological, and human-social interactions. Freshwater is a prerequisite of human well-being in terms of drinking water and sanitation, food security and health, industrial processes and energy supply, transportation and ...
Global governance of water: a practitioner's perspective.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
Oct 01, 2008; ... The wide-ranging contents of this special issue on the global governance of water have stimulated a number of thoughts on my part as a former practitioner in this area. My views are grouped below around seven topics: the concept of global water governance itself; the levels at which ...
Governance and the global water system: a theoretical exploration.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Public policy on water has long been approached in the context of a locality, a country, or a river basin. However, scientific evidence now provides compelling arguments for adopting a global perspective on water management. This article argues that water governance today needs a ...
Toward global law on water.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... With increasing recognition of a global crisis in water resources, it becomes relevant to ask whether existing legal systems can make serious contributions to the management of the earth's water resources. This article examines the evolution of national water law and its key features, the ...
Integration in the management of international waters: economic perspectives on a global policy discourse.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... In recent years an emergent global policy discourse has promoted the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) as a strategy for the sustainable management of international waters. However, integration remains a considerable challenge in large international river basins. This ...
Compliance and performance in international water agreements: the case of the Naryn/Syr Darya basin.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Many case studies and some large-N research have shown that upstream-downstream cooperation in international river basins occurs quite frequently. The same holds for global water governance efforts more generally. Yet such findings are blind in one eye because they focus primarily on ...
Global trade and water: lessons from china and the WTO.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Agricultural trade and water use are intrinsically linked. The case of China illustrates how (1) trade liberalization may impact water use; and (2) failure to consider water resources may distort analysis of trade liberalization. This article incorporates water constraints into forecasts ...
Global water governance through many lenses.(Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building)(Book review)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Ken Conca, Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building (MIT Press, 2005). Transparency International, Global Corruption Report 2008: Corruption in the Water Sector (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Transparency International, ...