Building Global Democracy

This article documents the humanitarian, political and security dimensions of the current Somali crisis and assesses the external policies that are playing an increasingly central role in the conflict. It advances the thesis that in 2007 and 2008 external

This article assesses political developments in Ethiopia after its 2005 federal and regional watershed elections. Although an unprecedented liberalisation took place ahead of the contested and controversial 2005 polls, a crack-down occurred in the wake of

Between 1987 and November 2008, three New Zealand governments had to respond to the overthrow of democratic governments in New Zealand's Commonwealth neighbour, Fiji. All three had to decide what priority the upholding of democracy should have in determin

RÍO DE JANEIRO, 23 jul (IPS) - El entusiasmo que Brasil despierta hoy en el mundo económico y el protagonismo internacional de su gobierno contrastan con el estancamiento del proceso de integración del bloque que fue su prioridad desde los años 80, el Mer

One of the most basic charges levelled at the consociational model is that, although it may provide for conflict management, it fails to provide for the longer-term goal of conflict resolution. This article seeks to respond to this charge by viewing the c

"Even in some countries where the US remains unpopular, significant percentages nonetheless say that they think Obama will do the right thing in international affairs," says Pew. The question then follows, does any of this matter?

KIGALI , Jul 29 (IPS) - Fifty-six percent of Rwanda's parliamentarians are women, a manifestation of the active role women have taken in rebuilding the country since the 1994 genocide.

Norman Abjorensen, co-author of Australia: The State of Democracy, runs a tape-measure over the nation's democratic institutions and practices

URL: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MWAI-7U78JZ?OpenDocument This is the fifth volume in the series of Arab Human Development Reports sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and independently authored by intellectuals a

Key aspects that the U.N. mission wants to clarify is how long the Hondurans plan to stay in Nicaragua, and how supplies of food, drinking water, basic services and health care can be provided, in accordance with the capacities of the central government a

This Working Paper by Stefan Meyer summarises the current debate on governance assessments. It describes the emergence of the 'governance' concept in international development cooperation and identifies the implications of the aid effectiveness principles

This essay discusses the dialectical relationship between the concepts of "democracy" and "citizenship," by relating to current debates which combine a transformation of the philosophical tradition and an evaluation of situations where the legal distincti

As a quintessential long-term policy problem, climate change poses two major challenges. The first is to develop, under considerable uncertainty, a plan for allocating resources over time to achieve an effective policy response. The second is to implement

This essay argues that the territorial fluidity of the process of surplus production has been accompanied by a new form of imperialism, resting on a structural separation of the processes of surplus appropriation and distribution from the processes of sur

The relationship between literature and the state has been controversial since the time of Plato. Until recently, however, the few scholars to write on this subject considered it an underdeveloped topic in literary studies. This survey article argues that

A recurring theme in the democracy promotion literature over the past ten years has been the need for external actors engaged in democracy promotion to take the local context of the relevant country into account when designing and implementing their effor

In the context of spiralling decay that, in recent decades, has engulfed all spheres of the human condition, this article seeks to endorse Tomaselli's essentially ethical position, advancing that the foremost contextual launching pad for cultural studies

Transformations under way in Indian cities have begun to alter the opportunities for democratic participation among the urban poor. Highlighting efforts to promote globally oriented urban developments in Mumbai, this article examines the state's engagemen

The sense that democracy is in retreat worldwide has become widespread. But the emergence of citizen-centred, governance-focused and development-oriented approaches suggests that a more complex and hopeful shift is also taking place, say Nicholas Benequis

In a number of recent articles, Nancy Fraser attempts to understand the World Social Forum within the framework of critical democratic theory. In this article, we examine the descriptive and normative aspects of Fraser's theoretical framework, and explore