Global Governance
Yvonne Terlingen on the UN Secretary-General Selection Process
In this interview, Yvonne Terlingen discusses the recent reforms to the UN secretary-general selection process, including the role of civil society in the reforms. She also details how the recent reforms may affect gender parity in senior posts across the UN.
A Better Process, a Stronger UN Secretary-General: How Historic Change Was Forged and What Comes Next
In the past, UN secretaries-general were chosen on the basis of a haphazard and secretive process behind closed doors. Yet over the last two years, the UN forged dramatic change and created a more open, transparent, and inclusive selection process. This essay explores why and how reform finally happened, and what comes next.
The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations by Barry Buzan and George Lawson
The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations, Barry Buzan and George Lawson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 421 pp., $29.99 paper, $98 cloth. This important and impressive book argues that international relations as we know it today was born in the nineteenth century. Buzan and Lawson argue that both the substance […]
Trials as Messages of Justice: What Should Be Expected of International Criminal Courts?
After more than a decade of work, the accomplishments of the International Criminal Court are highly contested. In this article, the authors ask, what can and should we expect from international criminal courts? How can international trial and punishment constitute a suitable response to episodes of mass violence?
Should International Courts Use Public Reason?
Is public reason an appropriate ideal for international courts? Since the early 1990s various political philosophers and legal scholars have argued that supreme courts should “use public reason” or abide by an “ideal of public reason.”
Climate Contributions and the Paris Agreement: Fairness and Equity in a Bottom-Up Architecture
Ethical questions of fairness, responsibility, and burden-sharing have always been central to the international politics of climate change and efforts to construct an effective intergovernmental response to this problem.
Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post–Cold War International Order
Rajan Menon and Eugene Rumer try to make sense of the Ukraine crisis for a general audience. The book’s major contribution lies in its attempt to provide what the authors term a “first cut at explaining the context, causes, and consequences” of a crisis that is still very much underway.
EIA Interview with Thomas Weiss on Global Governance
The journal is proud to feature an exclusive audio interview between Thomas Weiss, the Presidential Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and co-author with Rorden Wilkinson of “Change and Continuity in Global Governance,” and John Tessitore, editor of Ethics & International Affairs. Weiss and Wilkinson’s article appears in the Winter 2014 issue of Ethics & International Affairs as part of a special roundtable on global governance.
