Author Archives: oneditor
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
Localizing Intellectual Property in the Globalization Epoch: The Integration of Indigenous Knowledge
The search for appropriate modalities for the protection of indigenous or traditional knowledge is a subject of contemporary international law and policy discourse. As a primary mechanism for the allocation of rights over knowledge, Western or conventional intellectual property rights … Continue reading
Toward Global Democracy: Thoughts in Response to the Rising Tide of Nation-to-Nation Interdependencies
Accompanying the growing intensity of globalization, nation-to-nation interdependencies are on the rise, meaning that events and decisions in one nation increasingly have effects in other nations. At times, these interdependencies are negative, such as a recession that travels to North … Continue reading
Building the Northeast Asian Community
Asia is one of the most socio-politically divided regions in the world. Without regional cooperation, it faces difficulty in the world market, sometimes receiving unfair treatment. Asia contains more than half of the world’s population, but Asian countries have a … Continue reading
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development: The European Union Initiative as a Case Study
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are prime drivers of the trend of globalization. As such, they can be held responsible for the success or failure of sustainable development as it relates to continued economic growth without detriment to the environment and exploitation … Continue reading
Partition of Failed States: Impediments and Impulses
Failed states, not so long ago, were discussed as a problem of foreign aid or social theory. Only prescient thinkers and policy makers identified them as a priority of national security. The atrocities of September 11, 2001, did not make … Continue reading
Courts and Globalization
There is inevitably a problem of terminology. A professor of government once said that federalism “is what political scientists talk about when they talk about federalism,” and one could add that globalization is what political scientists (and lawyers) talk about … Continue reading
From Empire to Globalization: The New Zealand Experience
What does nationhood mean, what do national courts do and what effect have the pressures of globalization had on the meaning of nationhood and the role of national courts? I want to bring a small commonwealth country perspective to these … Continue reading
The Advantages of the Civil Law Judicial Design as the Model for Emerging Legal Systems
Currently, a number of societies around the world are reforming their legal systems, often upon emerging from years of oppression. Two transatlantic models, the civil law and common law, will have a great influence on these reforms. For one thing, … Continue reading
The Political Origins of the New Constitutionalism
Over the past two decades the world has witnessed an astonishingly rapid transition to what may be called juristocracy. Around the globe, in numerous countries and in several supranational entities, fundamental constitutional reform has transferred an unprecedented amount of power … Continue reading