ilona kickbusch’s thought provoking editorial is criticized in this commentary, partly because she fails to refer to previous critical work on the global conditions and policies that sustain inequality, poverty, poor health and damage to the biosphere and, as a result, she misreads global power and elides consideration of the fundamental historical structures of political and material power tha...

In this paper, two key questions are asked: why has the GATT/WTO worked in terms of multilateral tariff reduction and promotion of global trade, and to what extent will it act as a constraint on economic nationalism? To answer these two questions, three themes are laid out in the paper: first, the seminal economic model rationalizing the economic logic of the GATT/WTO is assessed; second, the p...

translated by Xu Fan, University of International Business & Economics Contributed to the RCCPB’s Initiative on China and Global Governance. © Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business, 2011.

Canada has been regarded as a model global citizen with firm commitments to multilateralism. It has also played important roles in several international health treaties and conventions in recent years. There are now concerns that its interests in health as a foreign policy goal may be diminishing. This article reports on a thematic analysis of key Canadian foreign policy statements issued over ...

Abstract Providing high-level policy advice to developing countries with the purpose shape national policies is a key function of UN . Yet no official definition exists and little known on how much weight gives this support modality in contrast capacity-building implementation work. To address gap, article first articulates case for ’s role change. It then presents an empirical analysis landsca...