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An Inquiry Into The Role Of Public Employees And Managers In Privatization, Andrew Ewoh Dec 1998

An Inquiry Into The Role Of Public Employees And Managers In Privatization, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

The contracting out of routine services and some sensitive functions has grown rapidly at every level of government in the United States. It not only has become a new method for human resource managers to provide needed public services, but it also poses new challenges for personnel management and for the training responsibilities of future public administrators. What accounts for the growth of privatization in recent years, despite strong and persistent opposition? This article suggests that the disappearance of some revenue sources accounts for the growth. Another factor is that the intellectual climate supports a shift away from public programs …


Raising The Caroline, Timothy Kearley Dec 1998

Raising The Caroline, Timothy Kearley

Timothy G. Kearley

This article examines the Caroline case, which articulates when one state can lawfully use force in the territory of another state in peacetime against another state that has been unable or unwilling to prevent its territory from being used to harm the state taking action. It analyzes how the doctrine arising from this case has been misconstrued by some to apply to all uses of force in self defense.


Eliciting Compliance From Warlords: The Ecowas Experience In Liberia, 1990–1997, Emmanuel Aning Dec 1998

Eliciting Compliance From Warlords: The Ecowas Experience In Liberia, 1990–1997, Emmanuel Aning

Emmanuel Kwesi Aning

This article examines the strategies initiated by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to elicit compliance with its disarmament policies from belligerents in Liberia's 1989–96 civil conflict. I propose to tackle the task within a linked and holistic four‐fold approach. First, I situate ECOWAS's intervention in Liberia from 1990 to 1997 within the changing context of international perceptions of multilateral organisation involvement in civil wars. ECOWAS's intervention had different diplomatic phases. The first phase under the Standing Mediation Committee lasted from May 1990‐June 1991, The Committee of Five Process from June 1991‐August 1992, and the Committee of Nine …