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The United States has been a generous sponsor of global health programs for the past 25 years or more.This investment has contributed to meaningful changes, especially for women and children, who suffer the brunt of the world's disease and disability.
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A transforming international system and the three approaches to the security dilemma
This article seeks to analyse the security dilemma in light of the transforming international system of today. Hereby, K. Waltz’s three images of war (men, the state, the international system) were taken as the basic approaches to the causes of the problem, while the carcass for the formulated systemic macro-models (federal world government, mature anarchy, balance of power) was provided by the key IR theories. The logic behind this approach lies in the belief that the international system periodically re-structures itself as to form the most stable structure possible for the respective period in history. The analysis revealed that the foundation of a federal world government could be excluded with near absolute certainty, while the prevalence of either the mature anarchy or the balance of power model was found to depend on whether the mental and physical interdependencies generated by the forces of globalization can create universal values and which functional type of the key international regimes they produce – cooperation or coordination. The results indicated the primacy of a multipolar power system balanced between civilizational blocs, which proved to be a natural consequence of the verified systemic trends as well as to display a sufficient potential for stability.
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Rethinking Global Governance? Complexity, Authority, Power, Change
Global governance remains notoriously slippery. While the term arose to describe change in the late twentieth century, its association with that specific moment has frozen it in time and deprived it of analytical utility. It has become an alternative moniker for international organizations, a descriptor for an increasingly crowded world stage, a call to arms, an attempt to control the pernicious aspects of globalization, and a synonym for world government. This article aims not to advance a theory of global governance but to highlight where core questions encourage us to go. A more rigorous conception should help us understand the nature of the contemporary phenomenon as well as look \"backwards\" and \"forwards.\" Such an investigation should provide historical insights as well as prescriptive elements to understand the kind of world order that we ought to be seeking and encourage us to investigate how that global governance could be realized.
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The challenges of democracy : and the rule of law
Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did this happen, and where might we go from here? Jonathan Sumption cuts through the political noise with acute analysis of the state of democracy today - from the vulnerabilities of international law to the deepening suppression of democracy activism in Hong Kong, and from the complexities of human rights legislation to the defence of freedom of speech. Timely, incisive and wholly original, 'The Challenges of Democracy' applies the brilliance of 'the cleverest man in Britain' to the most urgent and far-reaching political issue of our day.
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Institutions and the politics of agency in COVID-19 response: Federalism, executive power, and public health policy in Brazil, India, and the U.S
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 was one of the rare events that shocked almost every world government simultaneously, thus creating an unusual opportunity to understand how political institutions shape policy decisions. There have been many analyses of what governments did. We focus instead on what they could do, focusing on the institutional politics of agency – how institutions empower rather than how they constrain, and how they affect public policy decisions. We examine public health measures in the first wave (March-September 2020) in Brazil, India, and the U.S. to understand how the interplay of institutions in a complex federal context shaped COVID-19 policy-responses. We find similar patterns of concentrated federal executive agency with limited constraints. In each case, when federal leadership failed public health policy responses, federated, subnational states were left to compensate for these inefficiencies without necessary resources.
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Global International Relations and Indian Visions of World Government
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This article explores how Global International Relations can highlight the significance of international thought emerging beyond Europe and the Anglosphere while avoiding cultural essentialism and giving due attention to relationalities between actors. It does so by focusing on the extraordinarily extensive and distinctive support for world government among some of mid-century India's most prominent figures, which has seen only limited engagement in salient dialogues. Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Gandhi and allies sought a world government capable of ending imperial domination and advancing global justice. Anti-caste crusader B.R. Ambedkar called for institutionalized rights of global appeal to challenge what he called an “Empire of the Hindus” imposed by India's upper castes. Hindu nationalist leader M.S. Golwalkar sought to infuse the “World State of Our Concept” with his vision of Hinduism. It is shown how, far from representing an essentialized “Indian view” of world order reform, the accounts diverge dramatically according to the thinkers’ ideological foundations and related orientations to nation, empire and caste. Further, it is shown how Indian actors sought to establish relationalities across national boundaries, striving to promote their own ideas on world government through transformative conversations with key advocates and audiences. Finally, Global IR is shown to provide resources for critically engaging exclusionary views such as Golwalkar's, and for putting diverse views into critical conversation.
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