Informational Memorandum No. 84 • Fall 2010

ACUNSTHE ACADEMIC COUNCIL ON THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM

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SOUTH and South East Asia face a probability of profit motivated pirates committing acts of terror and politically driven terrorists resorting to piracy. Unlike terrorism that ema-nates from South/South West Asia and piracy that originates from South East Asia, terropiracy is a probability linking South and South East Asia as a contiguous unit of operation. With the Durand Line as the epicenter of global terrorism, the Taliban on both sides of it see no barrier separating the South from South West Asia. For the pirates in and around the Straits of Malacca, the peninsular confluence between South and South East Asia is but a choke point to disrupt the supply chain of global trade. Over 90% of global trade is conducted by sea with Singapore as the world’s busiest port and its largest container trans-shipment hub for a network of 250 shipping lines connecting it to 600 ports in 123 countries.

The Taliban, under attack for nine years by over 110,000 US led troops, and the pirates being pushed out of business from the Straits of Malacca with joint naval operations by at least twenty countries stand to gain by swapping their tools of combat and tricks of trade. The Taliban have light weapons to spare that pirates find handy to carry in their easily maneu-verable sea borne operations with light vessels. The pirates

are skilled in diverting or boarding ships with cargo that may include materials for Improvised Explosive Devices (IED’s). The Taliban find these IED’s easier to assemble, harder to detect and causing more panic in the public at large when exploded in surprise attacks than the collateral civilian fall out of an open combat with conventional light weapons.

The Afghan-Pak theatre is a virtual warehouse for bargain deals on light weapons with some going for a penny to a dollar. Tens of thousands of assault rifles, AK 47’s, hand grenades and other handheld weapons were amassed during the Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. And since the 2001 US led military action many more weapons were added to this open armory: stolen weapons; weapons mistaken for exploded; weapons resold by small business contractors in the surplus industry; and weapons simply unaccounted for. A 2009 report of the US General Accounting Office estimated that over one third of the 242,000 light weapons donated by the US government to the Afghan forces were unaccounted for and might have ended up with the Taliban. The Pentagon expects its military forces to demolish, down grade as scrap, or sell the surplus to con-tractors who commit to destroy them. But among the nearly

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SwAdESH M RAnA

Bay of Bengal initiative for Multi Sectoral technical and econoMic cooperation

400 contractors for the US weapons surplus in Afghanistan and Pakistan, some admit that they commonly find useful or new items among those discarded as scrap. Of the 30 rifle magazines removed recently from the dead insurgents, for example, more than half contained cartridges, or rounds identical to those used by some of the troops in the International Security Forces (ISAF).

The Afghan-Pak theatre is also a flea market for scrap metal: one of the handy materials for a crude assembly of IED’s along with ammonium nitrate and radio-active waste. With a 400% increase in their use to become the number one cause of death for the ISAF troops in 2010, IED’s were the focus of the Joint Multinational Training Command in Germany in May 2010. Dirty bombs made with radioactive and other toxic chemical and biological substances are now seen as a deadlier IED in the making than the roadside bombs used by the Taliban with landmines, ammonium nitrate and metallic connectors from artillery shells. Earlier this year, the ISAF located a vehicle car-rying more than 900 kilograms of ammonium nitrate in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar: enough to make 2000 kg’s of explosive material. More than 12,000 rounds of ammunition are fired in a day in Afghanistan by the British troops alone according to the Telegraph of London. Some, if not many, of it would still have shelf after-life for future use.

About twenty million consignments of radioactive materials in all container sizes are routinely transported worldwide each year under stringent international regulations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Dangerous Goods Code developed by the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) that is independent of the material’s intended appli-cation and the end use. Consequently, there are no reported accidents in which a container with highly radioactive material was breached or leaked. That record does not preclude a prob-ability of theft from loosely guarded or rummaging through negligently discarded radioactive medical waste. Liquid chlo-ride, a common substance in medical use, for example, could be used for producing life-threatening clouds of gas with deadlier fall out than the shrapnel blast and fire effect of other IED’s. Bosnian Serb officials acknowledge the theft of medical waste from the basement of a hospital in Banja Luka. Italian authori-ties are investigating whether Ndrangheta, an Italian mafia paid a Somali clan to get rid of 600 drums of toxic and radioactive waste from Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, and the USA. Hospital waste was among these reported shipments to Somalia that were meant to be blown up or sent down the Calabrian Sea but might not have been totally destroyed. The possibility of it being traded by the Somali pirates for IED use through

contraband traders in the Indian peninsula seemed all too real in March this year as the Directorate General of Shipping in Mumbai banned small mechanized vessels called dhows from sailing south and west of Oman and the Maldives. Part of a cen-turies-old tradition of open trading between India’s port state of Gujarat and the African east coast off the Arabian Peninsula, some dhows are now suspected of clandestine trading in drugs and weapons with the pirates in Kismayu in Somalia.

Chittagong port in Bangladesh, Anambas/Natuna/Mangkai islands area in Indonesia, the Malacca Straits, Tioman/Pulau Aur/South China Sea areas confluence around Malaysia; the Singapore Straits are included as high-risk locations in the 2010 piracy alert of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB). Indonesian authorities see the entire South and South East Asian region as vulnerable to piracy attacks by politically moti-vated Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeke: GAM: GAM) seeking independence for a gas and oil-rich region in Sumatra. Some Asian intelligence agencies reported links between GAM and Al Qaeda as the latter considered shift-ing its base from Afghanistan to Aceh and launch a naval offensive against its target vessels by ramming, blowing-up, air striking or torpedoing them with underwater suicide bombers aboard small, swift dinghies. Without any reported links to Al Qaeda, such dinghies wereused in successful recent attacks on tankers and smaller vessels, according to the Shipping Association of Singapore.

As soft targets of terropiracy, the concerned governments in South and South East Asia need credible assurances that the arms and ammunition brought into the Afghan-Pak theatre by the ISAF do not fall into the “wrong hands” either as tools of combat or as items to swap materials for making IED’s. A key challenge is to find a forum to raise the issue. A joint initia-tive by the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) would confront two familiar hurdles:

a. Ongoing rivalry in maritime multilateralism by three categories of littoral countries: providers of port facilities like Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore; extra-regional users heavily dependent on the Straits of Malacca like China and Japan; and maritime powers in the Asia- Pacific sea lanes like Australia, New Zealand, Russia, United Kingdom and United States.

b. Longstanding geopolitical debate over separating South and South East Asia from the wider arc of the Indian Ocean with 41 littoral, 11 landlocked and 12 island states. The arc accounts for 42% of the world’s 350 unresolved, simmering or ongoing conflicts in various forms.

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A 2009 report of the US General Accounting Office estimated that over one third of the 242,000

light weapons donated by the US government to the Afghan forces were unaccounted for and might have ended up with the Taliban.

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Recent conferences among the erstwhile and ongoing adversar-ies in the Indian Ocean are cautious that new initiatives would be more successful if limited first to the Bay of Bengal and/or the Arabian Sea. This makes room for placing terropiracy as a topic for BIMSTEC with India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Thailand as its members. The competing claims of Bangladesh, India and Myanmar over their coastlines were virtu-ally “shelved” as BIMSTEC agreed in 2009 to work simultane-ously on a regional convention for counter-terror cooperation and a pact on collaboration against international organized crime that includes piracy according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna. This is an opportune opening to put terropiracy as a cross cutting item on its existing agenda of terrorism and piracy by the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC). Three specific issues for action are proposed below:

i. A common position on licensing the production and permitting the sale of ammonium nitrate to keep this substance from falling into the hands of terrorists and pirates for making IED’s. South and South East Asia produce close to 40% of the global supply of ammonium nitrate with direct application for fertilizers in agriculture and other uses such as refrigeration, pulp making, textile treatment, woodwork and household cleaners.

ii. A closer look at the IAEA’s regulations and IMO’s Dangerous Goods Code on radioactive materials to close any loopholes for applicability to the storage and disposal of medical waste by the hospitals using radioactive materials for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The European Union has expressed initial interest in securing radioactive materials against access by terrorists and criminals.

iii. A joint proposal for the forthcoming UN Conference on an Arms Trade Treaty in 2012 for a global standard on inventory taking of the weapons brought into and taken out of an area of insurgency by an external power directly engaged in the counter- insurgency operations. Such a proposal could address a lacuna in the UN’s Program of Action on Illicit Arms Traffic and UN experience in disarmament demobilization and reintegration of former combatants into civil society.

a Senior fellow at the World policy institute, new York Swadesh M Rana is a former chief of the conventional arms Branch, department of disarmament affairs, united nations, she recently has been appointed as an oef fellow and project advisor with one earth future.

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About twenty million consignments of radioactive materials in all container sizes are routinely transported worldwide each year under stringent international regulations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Dangerous Goods Code developed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that is independent of the material’s intended application and the end use.

This is a busy fall season for us here at the secretariat, and busy is good. I am happy to report to Council members about agenda items that have emerged from our Programs & Activities, Governance, and Membership committees over the past 8 weeks.

Regarding Programs & Activities, we have just reached an agreement with our local colleagues at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) on financial and institutional support for the 2011 ACUNS Annual Meeting. The AM11 will be held 2-4 June, at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and at the Secretariat’s current home institu-tion, Wilfrid Laurier University, located here in Waterloo, Ontario, as the school celebrates its 100th anniversary. The central theme for the AM11 is “Multiple Multilateralisms”, and our Program Committee is working on topics and speakers for the plenary sessions. More detailed information about the meeting will be posted on the ACUNS website as soon as they are firmed up, and notifications – including the Call for Papers for our three sets of workshop panels – will come out as well in the next newsletter and either the November or December E-update.

Just prior to the ACUNS gathering, Laurier also plays host to the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting and will be prepar-ing to host the Congress of the Humanities, so some of you may have several visits to Waterloo to mark in your calendars.

The 2011 Summer Workshop will take place in mid-July, hosted by Tom Farer and Tim Sisk at the Korbel School, University of Denver, which also supports the editorial offices of our journal Global Governance. We are working out the details with our partners even as I write this note, and we will disseminate details as soon as we have them.

We are considering potential locations for the 2012 Annual Meeting and Summer Workshop, so if any ACUNS members have suggestions we would be happy to hear from you.

Still on future Programs & Activities, those members who regularly check the “Opportunities” link on our website will see information about a number of conferences, calls for participation, and study opportunities. ACUNS has been building new links with the IAEA, UNODC, and ECOSOC as part of our mandate to foster improved dialogue between the scholarly and practitioner communities. Relations with the IAEA and UNODC have emerged through the efforts of Michael Platzer in our Vienna Liaison Office, and here I should mention as well that at the end of September we participated in, and made a presentation to, the UN Knowledge Fair (UNKF) in Vienna that brought together young field practitioners from an array of UN departments and agencies to exchange experiences and to learn from each other. Keep an eye on the “Opportunities” section too, and on future e-updates, for news about the Global Environmental Governance initiative led by Maria Ivanova and Ken Abbott, and about a new awards program we are establishing with UNU Tokyo.

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Alistair Edgar, Executive Director, ACUNS

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In the realm of ACUNS Governance Affairs, we are at that point in our annual planning sched-ule when we look for nominations of candidates to the Board of Directors (see the notice on page 7 of this edition of the newsletter). If you wish to nominate someone else, please check with them first; and self-nominations are also welcome.

On the forward planning front, we soon will be advertising the competition for the next ACUNS Secretariat team and location for the period 1 July 2013 – 30 June 2018. In order to have a full year of preparatory time while the next team “shadows” the current one, the process will begin by the end of this year and progress to the announcement of the successful bid at the 2012 Annual Meeting. The Call for Submissions will be issued soon, and advertised widely; again, please feel free to contact the Executive Director or our Chair if you are interested in entering a bid, or if you have a suggestion for a potential team and location. In 2013 it will be time to find a new home for ACUNS!

As the e.d. I always consider everything that we do to be member-oriented, even though some items fall under different organizational categories. Specifically within the orbit of our Membership Committee, however, is a new outreach and awareness initiative that the secretariat is pursu-ing with a team of six Laurier undergraduate and graduate student volunteers (who you will meet when you come to the 2011 Annual Meeting). Our volunteers are compiling contact lists of schools, specific programs, other organizations and individuals in different countries who might be interested in learning about ACUNS. As they com-plete their data sets, we will be beginning to send out a simple informational email with an invitation to look at our website, find out about the sorts of programs, activities and opportunities that we can provide and the benefits of joining as a member or, at least, of signing up to receive the free monthly e-update. As we do this, we will cross-check our

existing membership database but there are some technical limitations to what we can do with that – and I am sure there will be some human limita-tions too – so please bear with us if you find an outreach message from us in your email inbox. If you do, at least you will know that we are not idly sleeping here in our lovely yellow brick house but that we are working on getting ACUNS ‘out there’ in front of the many people who unfortunately are entirely unaware of our existence. Feel free to check with any of your colleagues who you think would benefit from taking part in our programs and ask if they have seen the message – and if we have missed them, pass it on!

Finally, this issue of the Informational Memo-randum (or ‘newsletter’ as ordinary people like me prefer to call it) features two articles by ACUNS members with extensive experience as practitioners, in both cases from careers within the UN system. Swadesh Rana finished her distinguished UN career as Chief of the Conventional Arms Branch, Department of Disarmament Affairs, and cur-rently is a Research Fellow with One Earth Future (OEF); Dr. Benny Widyono completed over three decades’ service as a UN civil servant, his last post being the UN Secretary-General’s Political Representative in Cambodia from 1994-97. He now is Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut. The topics of their contributions here differ, but in both cases they give us opinions and analysis that are shaped and informed by their years of service. The authors can be contacted through the ACUNS Secretariat, if you want to be in touch with them.

Thanks very much for reading this far, and I look forward to working with, and for, ACUNS members through to 30 June 2013.

–Alistair Edgar

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who is to Blame for the Cambodian Tragedy?

international coverage of the duch verdict eclipses two issues. first, the international community especially in the West is ambivalent about the tribunal. Many consider it deeply flawed by corruption and interference by the cambodian government of Hun Sen. Because of these allegations, the tribunal was riddled with perennial problems of funding, including a short fall of $10 million this year.

others, again especially in the West, insist that the tribunal must continue, as if this were the only road to justice and reconciliation in post-Khmer rouge cambodia. nothing is farther from the truth. given the thirty one year delay, cambodia has since returned to stability and won the confidence of both donor and business communities. Cambodia’s growth rate over ten years stands at 7 - 13%. today, a majority of Cambodia’s expanding population pyramid knows very little about and has no personal experience of the Khmer Rouge era. Recent surveys indicate in fact that cambodians are paying more attention to their career advancements than to the tribunal. Because the mass killings were politically rather than racially motivated, reconciliation was easier to achieve, especially after three decades.

obviously, the question of why did cambodians kill cambodians must be faced by cambodia so that it will never happen again. But this objective can be achieved by various other methods than the costly and highly controversial tribunal. one is through the setting up of a truth commission, an approach that by last count has been launched in forty countries around the world. Secondly, educating the youth about the recent past is a much more cost effective – and positive - way to achieve this objective than keeping aging Khmer rouge leaders in air-conditioned cells, a luxury in poor Cambodia. In fact, the recent publication by the documentation center of cambodia (dc-cam) of a book on the Khmer rouge in both english and Khmer will go a long way to this end and provides an example that should be followed by others.

a less evident problem is that the past role of international actors in the cambodian tragedy has been whitewashed. it should be remembered that during the cold war, cambodia had, because of its geopolitical loca-tion, seen itself subjugated to the ongoing power struggles for hegemony in South East Asia. The meteoric rise of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, fully sup-ported by communist china from the beginning, was fueled largely by two events: the indiscriminate and secret carpet bombing of cambodia by the US military under the direction of the Nixon regime during 1969-73, and the ouster of head of state Sihanouk by a pro-american general which in turn drove Sihanouk into the arms of the Khmer rouge.

today, almost in unison, the Western press asserts that the vietnamese liberation of cambodia from Khmer rouge rule, in January 1979, was followed by “ ten years of civil war”. In fact, there was no civil war since in 1979, the Cambodian people chased the hated Khmer rouge from the entire country out to the thai border. the so called civil war was initiated in faraway new York, where, incredibly enough, and spearheaded by the uS, china and aSean, the united nations continued to recognize the ousted Khmer rouge regime as the legitimate govern-ment of Cambodia, rather than the new People’s Republic of Kampuchea in Phnom Penh, which soon gained control over 90% of the country. The alleged reason given was that vietnam had invaded cambodia, but the obvious truth was that vietnam was on the wrong side of the cold war.

opposing this un decision to maintain Khmer rouge representation were the Soviet bloc, india and a number of others, who were easily out voted in the un. this stalemate continued for 11 years during which time the Khmer Rouge flag continued to fly over Manhattan. To disguise this outrage, the Khmer rouge was persuaded to form a coalition, the coalition government of democratic Kampuchea (cgdK) with two non-communist factions—the Royalists’ FUNCINPEC and a pro-American group, the KPNLF. In the field, the CGDK received ample aid from its Western änd chinese backers, initiating, fueling and prolonging the so-called “civil war”.

thus, having succeeded in seating the Khmer rouge in the un general assembly for eleven more years, obviously the West was not in a big hurry to put the Khmer Rouge on trial. In 1979, the Peoples republic of Kampuchea (prK) did put the Khmer rouge on trial in phnom penh and condemned pol pot and ieng Sary to death in absentia. naturally, the international community chose to ignore that trial.

With the end of the Cold War, in 1991, the Paris Peace Agreements were finally signed, and the United Nations Transitional Authority in cambodia (untac) brought the stalemate to an end by organizing elec-tions that established a new legitimate coalition government in cambodia. The Royal Government, in June 1997, asked the United Nations for help in putting the Khmer rouge leaders on trial but insisted that this should be done in a cambodian court assisted by the united nations, not in an international tribunal. negotiations between cambodia and the united Nations continued for years and finally, in June 2007, twenty-eight years after the Khmer rouge was ousted the eccc became fully operational as a cambodian court with international assistance.

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pRiSOn CHiEf Of THE KHMER ROUgE REgiME in CAMBOdiA, at a un- sponsored tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC), followed by the indictment, on September 16 of four the surviving leaders of the Khmer rouge drew international media attention to cambodia, at least for one short moment. These decisions were significant in that they took place thirty one years after the Khmer Rouge terror regime was ousted from power. During its reign from April 17 1975 to January 7 1979, the Khmer Rouge had killed 1.7 million of its own people.

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it is ironical that the international press and Western academics, almost in unison, now insist that the K.r. trials must continue, and that the cambodian government should not protect anyone from the tribunal. if the international tribunal were to end tomorrow, cambodia would continue on its path to progress and reconciliation, aided by private investment and generous donors. this, understandably, is the subject that concerns cambodians today.

Dr. Benny Widyono, served as a united nations civil servant and diplomat in Bangkok, Santiago, New York, and Cambodia, 1963 to 1997. He served two terms in cambodia, with the united nations transitional authority in cambodia, from 1992 to 1993, and secondly as the UN Secretary-General’s Political Representative in Cambodia from 1994-1997. His book Dancing in the Shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia (rowman Littlefield, Lan Ham and New York, 2008) is a memoir of his work in Cambodia. He currently is professor of economics at the university of connecticut in Stamford, ct.

who is to Blame for the Cambodian Tragedy? BEnny widyOnO

A less evident problem is that the past role of international actors

in the Cambodian tragedy has been whitewashed.

Today, a majority of Cambodia’s expanding population pyramid knows very little about and has no personal experience of the Khmer Rouge era.

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the authors address both the theoretical and the policy-relevant aspects of evaluation as they cover the full gamut of mission goals—from conflict mitigation, containment, and settlement to the promotion of democracy and human rights. numerous examples from specific peace operations illustrate their discussion. a seminal contribution, their work is a foundation not only for the meaningful assessment of peace operations, but also for approaches that can increase the likelihood of successful outcomes.

Democracy and Public-Private Partnerships in Global GovernanceMagdalena Bexell and Ulrika Mörth (Eds.)Published By: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-230-23906-7

there has been rapid proliferation of public-private partnerships in areas of human rights, environmental protection and development in global governance. this book demonstrates how different forms of partnership legitimacy and accountability interact, and pinpoints trade-offs between democratic values in partnership operations.

Legitimacy Beyond the State?: Re-examining the Democratic Credentials of Transnational ActorsEva Erman and Anders Uhlin (Eds.)Published By: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-230-23907-4

combining case studies with normative theory, this book analyzes the democratic credentials of transnational actors participating in global governance, ranging from corporations and philanthropic foundations to ngos and social movements. this leads to innovative interpretations of democratic legitimacy in a transnational context.

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Mainstreaming Human Security in Peace Operations and Crisis ManagementPolicies, Problems, PotentialWolfgang Benedek, Matthias C Kettemann and Markus Möstl (Eds) Published By: Routledge, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-415-57402-0

the concept of human security is a new approach to security that focuses on the individual human being and provides policy alternatives to the traditional state-centred view, which considers the state to be the only and ultimate referent of security. formally introduced into the united Nations system in 1994 the concept’s intellectual roots draw from international humanitarian law, human rights and human development, and since its introduction human security has been progressively integrated into the international security discourse. Mainstreaming Human Security in Peace Operations and Crisis Management: Policies, Problems, Potential paints a comprehensive picture of the relevance of the concept of human security in practice in a time of changing security paradigms and a challenging international environment.

this volume looks at the practical implications of mainstream-ing human security. it focuses on the potential, problems and policies of human security in peace operations and crisis management operations of the united nations and of the european union. topics addressed by the contributors include mainstreaming human rights and human security in peace and crisis management in general and the role of human security in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy, security sector reform, restorative responses to human rights violations by peacemakers, human security in Serbia and in african peace operations as well as proposals for human security training. the contributions to the book focus equally on mainstreaming human security in the un and in the eu context. The global issues discussed and conclusions drawn are of relevance for the future of security addressed by peace and crisis management operations all over the world.

The New Dynamics of Multilateralism: Diplomacy, International Organizations, and Global GovernanceJames P. Muldoon, Jr., JoAnn Fagot Aviel, Richard Reitano, and Earl Sullivan (Eds.)Published by: Westview Press ISBN: 978-0813344812

this book focuses on the various dynamics of contemporary multilateralism as it relates to global issues, global institutions and global governance. emphasizing practical applications, it helps readers understand how the practice of multilateral diplomacy has been influenced by changes in international organizations and explains the role of multilateralism in the transformation of the international system and the transition to an emerging new global order.

The South in World PoliticsChris Alden, Sally Morphet and Marco Antonio Vieira

Published By: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-4039-3317-1

the demise of the cold War and the spread of globalization seemed to end the era of solidarity politics pursued by the developing world, or the “South.” This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing dynamics of the South and its relationship to the issues, content and structure of the evolving international system.

Transnational Actors in Global Governance: Patterns, Explanations and ImplicationsChrister Jonsson and Jonas Tallberg (Eds.)

Published By: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 978-0-230-23905-0

the nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy. We are witnessing a gradual and partial shift from inter-state co-operation to more complex forms of governance, involving participation by transnational actors, such as ngos, party associations, philanthropic foundations and corporations.

Who Governs the Globe?Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations (No. 114)Deborah D. Avant, Martha Finnemore, and Susan K. Sell (Eds.)

Published by: Cambridge University Press. 2010 ISBN-13: 9780521198912

academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. this volume focuses on the agents of global governance: ‘global governors’. The global policy arena is filled with a wide variety of actors such as international organizations, corporations, professional associations, and advocacy groups, all seeking to ‘govern’ activity surrounding their issues of concern. Who governs the globe? lays out a theoretical framework for understanding and investigating governors in world politics. it then applies this framework to various governors and policy arenas, including arms control, human rights, economic development, and global education. Edited by three of the world’s leading international relations scholars, this is an important contribution that will be useful for courses, as well as for researchers in international studies and international organizations.

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