Monthly Archives: September 2011
Patents and Traditional Medicine: Digital Capture, Creative Legal Interventions, and the Dialectics of Knowledge Transformation
This article examines the debate over the exclusion of indigenous or local knowledge forms from the global intellectual property system, and some of the current attempts to solve this problem. Using the lens of cultural cosmopolitanism, the article highlights important … Continue reading
Toward a World Migratory Regime
Increasing transnationalism challenges the predominant statist treatment of migration and citizenship. Global, indeed cosmopolitan, citizenship offers an alternative to open border policies and global migratory management that focuses on the extent to which political agents are free to move and … Continue reading
Globalization and Housing Rights
This article seeks to explore the relationship between the growing phenomenon of globalization and the field of housing rights. I begin with a general description of globalization, and move on to discuss its effect on homelessness, and on housing systems … Continue reading
A Theory of Open-Source Anarchy
The rise of the importance of non-State actors in global politics challenges existing theories of international relations, and this article presents a new approach to the non-State actor phenomenon by developing a “theory of open-source anarchy.” The article reviews the … Continue reading
Democratization: The Contribution of Fair Trade and Ethical Trading Movements
De-democratization and institutional corruption threaten equality among the expanding global market community. International treaties have been largely unsuccessful because they are designed to favor the more politically and economically advantaged players. In addition to meeting these challenges, there are many … Continue reading
Global Panopticism: States, Corporations, and the Governance Effects of Monitoring Regimes
Regulatory power has become fractured. Its assertion both by public and private bodies is well known. Less well recognized is that the expression of this regulatory power has been fracturing as well. No longer confined to positive regulation or judicial … Continue reading
From Agitation to Institutionalization: The Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement in the New Millennium
This article provides an overview of the student anti-sweatshop movement and argues that the movement has been somewhat successful at changing policies. The primary objectives are twofold: first, to supplement existing literature on the anti-sweat-shop movement by offering an account … Continue reading
The WTO and Domestic Political Disquiet: Has Legalization of the Global Trade Regime Gone Too Far?
The recent “legalization” of the global trade regime (the WTO) has inspired enormous amounts of research and literature. Fewer commentators, however, have examined WTO legalization from the perspective of domestic interest groups. I add to this growing subfield of literature … Continue reading
Rethinking NGOs: The Economy of Survival and Global Governance
This article explores the concept of “global politics,” an evolving set of systems that undermine our traditional view of government. These underlying systems, including Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), exert great influence on the power and actions of nation-states. Thus, while current … Continue reading