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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456320303321

Titolo

Humanizing our global order : essays in honour of Ivan Head / / edited by Obiora Chinedu Okafor and Obijiofor Aginam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-281-99655-6

9786611996550

1-4426-7593-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

327.1

Soggetti

Globalization

Internationalism

North and south

International relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Humanizing Our Global Order: An Introduction / Chinedu Okafor, Obiora / Aginam, Obijiofor -- 2. Saving the Tortoise, the Turtle, and the Terrapin: The Hegemony of Global Environmentalism and the Marginalization of Third World Approaches to Sustainable Development / Aginam, Obijiofor -- 3. Multilateral Prevention of Internal Conflicts in the Face of Interethnic Tensions: The Case of the OSCE and its High Commissioner on National Minorities / Brenninkmeijer, Olivier A. J. -- 4. Between Sovereignty, Efficiency, and Legitimacy: Lawmaking under Multilateral Environmental Agreements / Brunnee, Jutta -- 5. The Use of Force in the Struggle between Humanity and Unreason / Franck, Thomas M. -- 6. The Civil Dimension of Strategy / Guttieri, Karen -- 7. Co-opting Common Heritage: Reflections on the Need for South-North Scholarship / Mickelson, Karin -- 8. Modernization of European Community Competition Law



Enforcement for the Twenty-first Century / Middleton, Kirsty -- 9. The Institutional Legitimacy of the International Trade System / Shum, Robert -- 10. The International Seabed Authority: Challenges and Opportunities / Macdonald, Ronald St J. -- Appendix -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Hunger, disease, poverty, environmental insecurity, illegitimate governance, civil war, and international conflict are only a few of the causes of today's global turmoil and gross human suffering. Written in honour of Ivan Head, foreign affairs advisor to former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, past president of Canada's International Development Research Centre, and professor emeritus of International law at the University of British Columbia, this collection of distinguished essays addresses the imperative to enhance human dignity and protect human life by humanizing our global order and improving international relations - goals Professor Head strove for throughout his career.The authors argue that the search for possible solutions to these challenges, which has so far tended to proceed without due recognition of the needs, demands, and solutions that emanate from the geo-political South, must in future be conducted with alternate visions that take these factors into account. Each essay seeks to re-assess and re-imagine a specific topic that relates in some significant way to our current global circumstance in ways that advance the book's thematic. With essays grappling with such issues as Multilateral Environmental Agreements, the Use of Force, the Prevention of Civil War through Minority Protection, Common Heritage of Humankind, and the Civil Dimensions of Strategy, the volume deals with a range of diverse topics that are as crucial as they are topical.