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Transnational Adoption And European Immigration Politics: Producing The National Body In Sweden, Barbara Yngvesson
Transnational Adoption And European Immigration Politics: Producing The National Body In Sweden, Barbara Yngvesson
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article explores the role of transnational adoption in the production of a multicultural but Swedish national body during the second half of the twentieth and the first decade of the twenty-first century, when Sweden became a multiethnic, multicultural, and racially divided country. I examine the development of international adoption policies in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, emphasizing the erasure of the child's connection to a preadoptive past, even as the child's cultural difference was celebrated in adopting nations. In Sweden, which in the late 1970s and early 1980s had the world's highest adoption ratio (number of transnational adoptions per …
Human Security With An Asian Face?, Sung Won Kim
Human Security With An Asian Face?, Sung Won Kim
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Eastphalia Emerging?: Asia, International Law, and Global Governance, Symposium. Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, 2009
Introduction: Eastphalia Emerging?: Asia, International Law, And Global Governance, David Fidler
Introduction: Eastphalia Emerging?: Asia, International Law, And Global Governance, David Fidler
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Eastphalia Emerging?: Asia, International Law, and Global Governance, Symposium. Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, 2009
When Common Interests Are Not Common: Why The Global Basic Structure Should Be Democratic, Andreas Føllesdal
When Common Interests Are Not Common: Why The Global Basic Structure Should Be Democratic, Andreas Føllesdal
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The global constitution-the fundamental international norms and structures that serve constitutional functions-should include mechanisms of democratic contestation and accountability. This central claim of global constitutionalism faces three objections extrapolated from arguments made by Andrew Moravcsik and Giandomenico Majone in debates about the democratic deficit of the European Union (EU): the global constitution only regulates issues of low salience for citizens; democratic control is explicitly counter to the self-binding system that international regulations aim to achieve; and the EU's track record suggests that democratic control at the international level may be unnecessary to ensure congruence between voters' preferences and actual regulations. …
Multilayered Governance, Pluralism, And Moral Conflict, Thomas Cottier
Multilayered Governance, Pluralism, And Moral Conflict, Thomas Cottier
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The quest for multilayered governance faces the problem of endemic tensions and disagreements in international relations and doubts as to whether nations truly share common values upon which an international society can be solidly built. Values, however, are equally controversial within the nation-state. We find similar tensions within domestic and regional layers of governance. In any system of governance, diverging and competing values are inevitable. There are differences in degree, but not in principle, when comparing traits of domestic and international governance. Legal experience in the fields of human rights and international trade regulation indicates that under such conditions, procedures …
Emerging Global Environmental Governance, N. Brian Winchester
Emerging Global Environmental Governance, N. Brian Winchester
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Environmental thinking and activism are steadily gaining widespread, even global acceptance, but are often in conflict with economic interests and international politics. Environmental priorities are further challenged by scientific uncertainty involving effects that in some cases will only become manifest far into the future. Nonetheless, accompanying this global environmental awakening has been an extraordinary number of international agreements on a wide range of critical environmental issues. While many of these environmental regimes lack adequate financial support and sanctions for non-compliance, they involve a variety of non-state actors, suggesting meaningful movement towards an evolving, complex form of global environmental governance. Indeed, …
"The Momentous Gravity Of The State Of Things Now Obtaining": Annoying Westphalian Objections To The Idea Of Global Governance, Timothy W. Waters
"The Momentous Gravity Of The State Of Things Now Obtaining": Annoying Westphalian Objections To The Idea Of Global Governance, Timothy W. Waters
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Are there situations in which otherwise attractively complex, sub- and cross-national networks are unlikely to replace the hoary old Westphalian state? Perhaps, but whatever the answer, global governance as a discipline seems to have a hard time fully considering the question. One oft he problems with operationalizing global governance may be the simultaneous profligacy and poverty of the idea itself: its definitional overemphasis on change and consequent inattention to the state's capacity to reconstitute its core functions and thus to achieve a predictable continuity. As a result, for all the excellent work done under its name, global governance as a …