International Organization: Polity, Politics and Policies.
International Organization: Polity, Politics and Policies. Volker Rittberger and Bernhard Zangl with Matthias Staisch. Antoinette Groom, translator. Palgrave-Macmillan. [pounds sterling]19.99 p.b. xvii + 246 pages. ISBN 0-333-72128-4. Increasingly international politics are influenced by international organisations such as the IMF, the UN, the World Bank, GATT and occasionally even the...

Rethinking the United Nations System: prospects for a World Federation of Nations.
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the need to reform the United Nations by looking at what aspects of the current system have succeeded and which have failed. It considers changes in the international system which require the UN to change, and it looks at international problems and...

New coalitions for global governance: the changing dynamics of multilateralism.
This article seeks to inform current debates on the changing architecture for global governance by cataloguing and suggesting evaluation criteria for alternative multilateral arrangements. Rather than describing a system in crisis, it focuses on the dynamics of change and flexibility in which established intergovernmental organizations are challenged to meet...

Historical dictionary of human rights and humanitarian organizations, 2d ed.
9780810855489 Historical dictionary of human rights and humanitarian organizations, 2d ed. Gorman, Robert F. and Edward S. Mihalkanin. Scarecrow Pr. 2007 403 pages $85.00 Hardcover Historical dictionaries of international organizations; no.26 ...

Holding intergovernmental institutions to account.
Concerns about order and justice in the globalizing world economy have often been addressed to international organizations. Protesters gather in large numbers around meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in order to highlight perceived injustices wrought by these organizations. More and more, these demonstrations...

Lost in translation: international criminal tribunals and the legal implications of interpreted testimony.
ABSTRACT When courtroom interpreters translate a witness's testimony, errors are not just possible, they are inherent to the process. Moreover, the occurrence of such errors is not merely a technical problem," errors can infringe on the rights of defendants or even lead to verdicts based on faulty...

The inconveniences of transnational democracy.
When then European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy returned from the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial in Seattle, where gas-choked streets overflowing with tens of thousands of protesters had signaled the emergence of a worldwide movement against "corporate-led globalization," he expressed support for broadening the input taken on...

The Global Compact: shifting the politics of international development?
The UN Global Compact epitomizes the current state of the politics of international development in three distinct ways. First, the Compact illustrates a major turn in development thinking. After decades of hostile relations, the UN and business now acknowledge their common interest in the promotion of sustainable development. Second,...

Implementation of international health law: a challenge for the future.
The panel was convened at 9:00 a.m., Friday, March 30, by its moderator, Fernando Gonzalez-Martin of the World Health Organization, who introduced the panelists: Gian Luca Burci of the World Health Organization; Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University Law Center; and Bruce Plotkin of the World Health Organization. ...

Performance measurement and global governance: the experience of the World Bank.
Performance management and performance measurement have become central topics in public sectors across the globe. Dissatisfaction with the performance of government organizations has become a pervasive element in the world we live in. Increasingly citizens are unwilling to blindly accept the level of work of a range of institutions...