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Globalization and Popular Sovereignty [book review]
No full textBook review of Globalization and Popular Sovereignty by Adam Lupel. --author-supplied descriptio
The role of transnational civil society
No full textWhat are the causes of genocide and mass atrocities? How can we prevent these atrocities or, when that is no longer possible, intervene to stop them? What are the impediments to timely and robust action? In what ways do political factors shape the nature, and results, of international responses? The authors of Responding to Genocide explore these questions, examining the many challenges involved in forging effective international policies to combat genocidal violence
Cosmopolitan Regard: Political Membership and Global Justice. By Richard Vernon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 232p. 30.00 paper.
No full textTasks of a Global Civil Society: Held, Habermas and Democratic Legitimacy beyond the Nation-State
No full textThe mission to stop Ebola: lessons for UN crisis response
No full textOverview
The Ebola outbreak of 2014–2016 was a fast-moving, multidimensional emergency that presented unprecedented challenges for the multilateral system. In response to the outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the UN established the first-ever emergency health mission, the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER).
UNMEER is an important case study of how the UN, with member-state support, can provide a whole-of-system response through coordination, partnership, and creative use of existing tools. This report, therefore, asks three questions about this groundbreaking mission: was it needed, was it properly structured, and did it deliver? In answering these questions, it offers eight broad lessons for UN crisis response:
A sequenced approach and flexible mandate allow for better responses to unanticipated challenges.
Effective responses draw upon the full range of UN tools and implementing partners based on the principle of comparative advantage, but they must take into account the challenge of integrating distinct organizational cultures.
Flexible and predictable funding is critical for rapidly scaling up responses to multidimensional crises.
Local engagement with key stakeholders during the peak of a crisis enhances long-term effectiveness.
A system-wide communications strategy, bolstered by strong communications capacity in the field, is required from the outset.
High-level coordination and oversight can provide flexibility and quick reaction.
Close proximity to frontline responders and the site of the crisis enhances field coordination.
A regional office can improve coordination across borders, but it must be joined with a strategy to account for the specificity of national and local contexts
Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy's Transnational Dilemma. By Adam Lupel. New York: Routledge, 2009. 208p. 42.95 paper.
No full textEuro-Islam – A Constructivist Idea or a Concept of the English School? EUMA Papers, Vol. 4 No. 12 May 2007
No full text[From the introduction]. “Us against Them”. Is that really the socio-political discourse we want to choose in a region, such as Europe and the Mediterranean? Huntington offered as an approach with “the Other” the one of Clash. Since then not only has fundamentalist Islam been responsible for September 11th but many other terrorist attacks as well all over the world. However, not all Muslims are fundamentalist terrorists. How then can Islam live in peace with Europe1 and vice versa? Bassam Tibi (1999, 16) writes that the socio-political evolution of Europe is closely connected with the appearance of Islam in the Mediterranean region, the fascination and threat it represented and the Medieval crusades in opposition to Jihad (i.e. by definition, the defense of Islam). Since then, neither politics nor socio-cultural studies have found a successful constructive and peaceful approach of dealing with Islam in Europe or the Euro-Mediterranean region-wide
