Governance, good goverance and global governance: conceptual and actual challenges

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This article discusses the impact of ideas and concepts in global governance on the making of international public policies, highlighting the role that the United Nations plays in developing these concepts. Focus is placed on intellectual debates on such issues as decolonization, human rights and localization; also analyzed is the tension between international practitioners and academics who use the term 'governance' to signifying complex processes and structures and popular writers who use the term synonymously with 'government.'

International aspects, United Nations, Policy sciences, Government missions

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Authoritarian leaders and multiparty elections in Africa: how foreign donors help to keep Kenya's Daniel arap Moi in power

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This article examines the influence of international actors and foreign investors on Daniel arap Moi and the KANU party's re-election successes in Kenya's 1992 and 1997 elections using interviews and documents with central players and donors. The author finds that foreign donors initially promoted the cause of multipartyism but later actively impeded democratization through knowingly endorsing unfair elections and undermining domestic efforts at political reform.

Kenya, Foreign investments, Political aspects, Moi, Daniel arap, Democratization

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The responsibility to protect: is anyone interested in humanitarian intervention?

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Post September 11, 2001 and post-Iraq world, the responsibility to protect the victims of war by humanitarian intervention is discussed. The concept of humanitarian intervention and the idea of a responsibility to protect the victims of war still matters in a deeper way in the articulation of foreign and security policy, including the use of force.

United States, Legal issues & crime, Government expenditures, Police Protection, Terrorist Control, Security Mgmt-Kidnapping & Terrorism, Company legal issue, Investigations, Terrorism, Humanitarian aid, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001, Government finance, War victims

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