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What Ngo Accountability Means - And Does Not Mean, Kenneth Anderson Jan 2009

What Ngo Accountability Means - And Does Not Mean, Kenneth Anderson

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This essay offers a review (4000 words) of "NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations," Lisa Jordan and Peter van Tuijl, eds. (London: Earthscan 2006).

International and transnational NGOs have been under criticism for alleged lack of accountability since they emerged into prominence in the 1990s. In recent years, the debate over NGOs has shifted from legitimacy and "representativeness" to accountability in the narrower senses of internal governance, fiduciary responsibility, relationships with national governmental authorities, and similar issues. The volume under review seeks to cover both aspects of the debate, with emphasis on the latter, narrower issues. The review essay argues …


What Ngo Accountability Means - And Does Not Mean, Kenneth Anderson Jan 2009

What Ngo Accountability Means - And Does Not Mean, Kenneth Anderson

Book Reviews

American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2009-18Abstract:This essay offers a review (4000 words) of "NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations," Lisa Jordan and Peter van Tuijl, eds. (London: Earthscan 2006); following AJIL permission, it is given in unedited form and is available in final form in 103 AJIL 1 (January 2009).International and transnational NGOs have been under criticism for alleged lack of accountability since they emerged into prominence in the 1990s. In recent years, the debate over NGOs has shifted from legitimacy and "representativeness" to accountability in the narrower senses of internal governance, fiduciary responsibility, relationships with national governmental authorities, …


Does Anyone Really Want A Parliament Of Man?, Kenneth Anderson Jan 2009

Does Anyone Really Want A Parliament Of Man?, Kenneth Anderson

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American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-05Abstract:This is a review-essay of historian Paul Kennedy's recent history of the UN and global governance, The Parliament of Man. It offers a critical look at Kennedy's account of the development of the UN as the gradual, if fitful, progress of the United Nations towards global governance under an order of liberal internationalism - the slow triumph of international institutions and law over the the anarchy of international power politics among sovereign states.The essay argues that what Kennedy views as the gradual movement toward global governance by the UN, or international institutions of any …