...This chapter gives a brief history of elections and governance processes in Afghanistan. Political participation in Afghanistan is largely a community process, with decision-making facilitated by and eventually evolving around the concept of loya jirgas, or tribal councils, from...

... can be employed to advance the normative goals associated with Voice and Reflexivity. agriculture global population irrigation population climate change competition conflict South Asia water water scarcity boundaries Ganga river basin hydropower Nepal water governance modeling approach...

... immigration rights universality of universality Global Governance Democracy Piracy Risks Capitalism Sovereignty In his famous book The History of Piracy, Philip Gosse (1989 [1932], 298) recalls that people, at the end of the nineteenth century, believed the disappearance...

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... culture experts insecurity culture of Durkheim Émile economic arena Parsons Talcott climate change Lane Robert E neoliberalism regulation environmental movement Germany Green parties disasters Schmitt Carl Global Governance Democracy Piracy Risks Capitalism Sovereignty When...

... as the interpretation of reality. communication democracy Foucault Michel observation society political systems politics power technology Giddens Anthony global governance globalization global public space borders diplomacy public vs secret secrecy and secrets state s WikiLeaks global humanity...

...A world that belongs to everyone and to no one is a world that must be conceived and governed with categories other than those applied to the nation state. Notions like democracy, humanism and justice must be deliberated within a new context that can be synthetized in the belief that we need...

... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Giddens Anthony United Nations Joshi Vijay Patel Urjit R global governance public goods neoliberalism sovereignty European Union Greenhouse Development Rights GDR Copenhagen Accord “glocalization ” Global Governance Democracy Piracy...

...This book explores the relationship between aid dependence and governance by focusing on the case of Cambodia. More specifically, it examines Cambodia’s dependence on international donors and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that have operated there since the United Nations–sponsored elections...

...This chapter presents the parameters of political judgment in its relation, on the one hand, to the realm of political conflict and, on the other, to the realm of governance. It then turns to the treatment of judgment and justification in modern normative political philosophy, highlighting...

...Our era is marked by a growing mismatch between a world society that is becoming increasingly interdependent at the systemic level and a world of states that remains fragmented. To meet the resulting need for governance beyond the bounds of the nation-state, a number of international treaty regimes...

...This chapter examines the impacts of migration on South Africa, with particular emphasis on two core issues: the integration of international migrants into local communities and the local governance of migration when there is extreme vulnerability and resource competition. It considers the dynamics...

... stuff that politics is made of. It then looks at the term governance and its relation to the structural crisis of representative democracy brought about by globalization and the much celebrated (or criticized) “end of politics.” It also discusses the role of contemporary capitalism...

...Recent economic and legal developments highlight the longstanding need for an international framework to facilitate sovereign debt restructuring. Yet, despite the repeated and ongoing efforts of governments and international organizations, such a framework has not yet been created. We examine...

... of the chapter discusses how local and national responses will never be fully adequate in dealing with global problems, using the issue of global warming as an example; and the current system of global governance without global government. protection without protectionism “fat tails” globalization insecurity...

...This chapter argues that Scandinavian equality gives direction to governance, social consciousness, and economic behavior. It shows how coordination induces wage compression in the labor market, which in turn leads to an egalitarian welfare state. Together they constitute an institutional...

...Recent years have been characterized by growing frustration with globalization. At the heart of the disappointment with current globalization is the deficit in governance. Indeed, the weakening of nation-states during the recent wave of globalization has not been substituted by new forms...

...One of the most profound similarities between the domains of security and finance is in the inadequacies of their respective global governance arrangements. Scholarly critiques of these inadequacies tend to focus on the content of policy decisions—for example, on the predominance...

...This chapter discusses four benchmarks of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) that take into account the economic and political context of these funds' creation and the role they play in an overall government strategy. The first benchmark, legitimacy, ensures that the capital of the SWF...

...This chapter discusses the problem of governance in poor countries, as well as the tendency for Western powers to impose an ideal, ostensibly Westernized form of governance upon these countries. One such case is that of Afghanistan and the concerted efforts of various nations into establishing...