Winter 2015 (29.4) • Essay
Voluntary Standard Setting: Drivers and Consequences
The voluntary consensus standard-setting system is a part of global governance most of us encounter frequently, but rarely notice. What are the drivers and consequences ...
Winter 2015 (29.4) • Essay
Change and Continuity in Global Governance
Scholars must frame bigger questions about the history and future of global governance, and prescribe course corrections and formulate strategies for a more stable and ...
Winter 2015 (29.4) • Essay
Governing the Environment: Three Motivating Factors
What motivates agents to change global governance arrangements? A look at governance of the environment provides answers.
Winter 2015 (29.4) • Review Essay
Children's Rights as Human Rights
Fundamental state failures—to recognize and act in children’s best interest; to afford them the right to be heard; and to respect, protect, and ...
Winter 2015 (29.4) • Essay
Global Governance and Power Politics: Back to Basics
ROLAND PARIS The fundamental challenge of global governance today is not a shortage of cooperative mechanisms but the rapid shift in power away from the ...
Winter 2015 (29.4) • Essay
Big Data and International Relations
ANDREJ ZWITTER Big Data unveils new dimensions of technological change, which political scientists and observers of international affairs are only beginning to comprehend.
Winter 2015 (29.4) • Review Essay
Justice for All: The Promise of Democracy in the Global Age
For Carol Gould, to make democracy fulfill its potential, it has to be transformed from its static and formal state to a more engaged, ...
Winter 2015 (29.4) • Feature
The Ethics of Arming Rebels
Arming rebels is generally impermissible and only exceptionally morally permissible--even when rebels are engaged in unjust wars.
Online Exclusive • 12/10/2015 • Blog
Cosmopolitan Sentiment and Membership (Citizenship) in the Demos
Striking a sustainable balance between the needs of the demos and the desire to be cosmopolitan will be the defining political debate of the coming ...
Online Exclusive • 12/9/2015 • Blog
Migration, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism
When economies are prosperous and societies are secure, cosmopolitanism finds greater acceptance. When economies contract or insecurity grows, pressure grows to restrict and limit the ...