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7472. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: The Costs Outweigh the Benefits
- Author:
- Kathleen C. Bailey
- Publication Date:
- 01-1999
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Cato Institute
- Abstract:
- The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is now before the U.S. Senate for its advice and consent. The treaty bans all explosive testing of nuclear weapons. Advocates of the CTBT make several arguments in support of the treaty. The reasons reduce to two points: the ban will constrain the modernization and development of nuclear weapons by the nations that already possess them, and it will help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to additional nations. Both objectives are set out in the CTBT's preamble.
- Topic:
- Security, Arms Control and Proliferation, and Nuclear Weapons
- Political Geography:
- United States
7473. Iraq's Transition: On a Knife Edge
- Publication Date:
- 09-1999
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- International Crisis Group
- Abstract:
- The situation in Iraq is more precarious than at any time since the April 2003 ouster of the Baathist regime, largely reflecting the Coalition's inability to establish a legitimate and representative political transition process. The broad plan sketched out by UN Special Adviser Lakhdar Brahimi, the apparent willingness of the U.S. to delegate at least some political responsibility to the UN and the decision to loosen the de-Baathification decree are all steps in the right direction. But critical questions remain both unanswered and, in some cases, unasked.
- Topic:
- Demographics, Government, and Politics
- Political Geography:
- United States, Iraq, Eastern Europe, and United Nations
7474. Private Governance and Democracy in International Finance
- Author:
- William D. Coleman
- Publication Date:
- 07-1999
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University
- Abstract:
- The governance arrangements in international finance mirror, in part, those found domestically by featuring a partnership between relatively autonomous state agencies and private actors. Where they depart from domestic arrangements is in the relatively stronger position of private actors, particularly global financial conglomerates, in decision-making. Given the importance of the governance arrangements in international finance for the welfare of individuals and firms throughout the world, it is important to ask whether these arrangements conform to accepted criteria for democratic decision-making. Five criteria are identified that might be applied to international sites of governance. These criteria are then applied to three groups of institutions, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and “private regimes” especially predominant in the derivatives subsector. Based on this analysis, important gaps are found when these governance institutions are held up to democratic principles.
- Topic:
- Globalization, Government, International Cooperation, and International Trade and Finance
- Political Geography:
- United States
7475. Civil Society, the Public Sector, and Poor Communities
- Author:
- Kingsley G. Thomas and James Gibson
- Publication Date:
- 08-1999
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- The current devolution debate has focused on shifting responsibilities from the federal level to the states. A byproduct of this shift has been renewed attention to an often neglected element of the policy mix—the costs and benefits of different local institutionalarrangement—and to the potential roles of civil society and community-based initiatives in that mix. The local tableau has recently been rediscovered as a vital leg on which the performance of the public sector is dependent. Students of government are only beginning to understand this play between civil society and the public sector. Here we focus especially on the dynamics within poor communities, where simple assistance is no longer considered adequate to solve problems without the necessary institutional infrastructure that is sometimes included under the label “civil society.”
- Topic:
- Civil Society, Human Welfare, and Poverty
- Political Geography:
- United States
7476. The Internet Society and its Struggle for Recognition and Influence
- Author:
- Raymund Werle and Volker Leib
- Publication Date:
- 11-1999
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
- Abstract:
- With the formation of a private non–profit corporation providing mainly technical coordination and guidance for the global Internet, a new, as yet uncertain, era of the network's governance began in November 1998. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) assumed the responsibility for functions which previously were guaranteed by the US government. Thus ICANN serves as an example of private governance with global significance, in an industry which can neither be completely left to the market nor exclusively be governed by national public authorities or international intergovernmental organizations.
- Topic:
- Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- United States
7477. Never Say MAI: Why has the Multilateral Agreement on Investment not been Signed Yet?
- Author:
- Francesca di Mauro
- Publication Date:
- 10-1998
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Centre for European Policy Studies
- Abstract:
- No abstract is available.
- Topic:
- International Political Economy and International Trade and Finance
- Political Geography:
- United States
7478. Shoring Up Military Readiness
- Author:
- Michael E. OHanlon and Jerre Wilson
- Publication Date:
- 12-1998
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- The Brookings Institution
- Abstract:
- Today's U.S. military is about one-third smaller and one-third less expensive than it was at the end of the Cold War. Even so, on a unit-by-unit basis it is as good as the U.S. armed forces of Ronald Reagan's presidency. It is far from hollow; its readiness to carry out a wide range of operations from warfighting to peacekeeping to deterrence remains quite good on the whole.
- Topic:
- Security and Defense Policy
- Political Geography:
- United States
7479. Conference on Immigrants and Race
- Author:
- Monique Wilson and Leo O'Donovan
- Publication Date:
- 07-1998
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Abstract:
- On Monday, July 13, 1998 the International Migration Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Georgetown University Law Center co-sponsored a Conference on Immigrants and Race at the Law Center's moot court amphitheater. This event was organized in an effort to contribute to the dialogue begun by President Clinton's Initiative on Race. Twenty-six scholars, policy makers and community leaders gathered to discuss the challenges of incorporating newcomers effectively into a multiethnic society and the effects and implications of this process on Black Americans and, more generally, on race relations. Seeking to move beyond the black/white paradigm that has dominated discussions on U.S. race relations and the deliberations of the Initiative, the Conference proved to be a thought-provoking exchange on the importance of and process for including immigrants more squarely within Clinton's notion of “One America.” Among those in attendance were the Chair of the President's Advisory Board, John Hope Franklin, and Board Members Linda Chavez-Thompson, Angela Oh, and William F.Winter.
- Topic:
- Human Rights, Migration, and Politics
- Political Geography:
- United States
7480. Conference on Comparative Citizenship
- Author:
- Kathleen Newland, Monique Wilson, Nicole Green, Deborah Ho, Lowell Barrington, George Ginsburgs, Jonathan Klaaren, David Martin, J. Donald Galloway, Gianni Zapalla, Rainer Baubock, Manuel Becerra Ramirez, Marco Martiniello, Aristide Zolberg, Ayelet Shachar, Douglas Klusmeyer, Miriam Feldblum, and T. Alexander Aleinikoff
- Publication Date:
- 06-1998
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Abstract:
- The conference on “Comparative Citizenship,” held at the Airlie Center in Warrenton, Virginia on June 4–7, 1998, was sponsored by the International Migration Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Twenty-five experts from around the world gathered to present and discuss citizenship policies as they relate to rights, access and participation in different non-Western European liberal-democratic states and the supranational European Union.
- Topic:
- Government, Migration, Nationalism, and Politics
- Political Geography:
- United States, Canada, Israel, South Africa, Mexico, Virginia, and Western Europe