International institutions Part 11

Institutions and the Growth of Knowledge: Evidence from International Environmental Regimes
Oran R. Young
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Volume 4, Number 2, June 2004 p.215-228

LEGAL TRANSPLANTATION: IS THIS WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED AND ARE THE BLOOD TYPES COMPATIBLE? THE APPLICATION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TO LAW REFORM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD-A CASE STUDY OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN INDONESIA
Jeremy J. Kingsley
Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law
Volume 21, Number 2, Summer 2004 p.493

This Article highlights the viability of applying interdisciplinary research to law reform in Asia and the developing world. It does this by applying a model for law reform that harnesses the strengths and possibilities of the social sciences and humanities. It allows developing nations to respond to the demands of International institutions to reform their laws, whilst doing so in a culturally appropriate and equitable manner.

Drifting Toward Insignificance or Increased Relevance? The UN Following the Iraq War- Learning from Other Institutions
Adam Smith
Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 2004 p.133

Adam Smith claims that the past experiences of U.S. relations with the International Court of Justice , NATO, and the UN suggest that recent U.S. rebuffs of the UN-system will serve to strengthen, not enfeeble, the UN today.

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: THE MOVE TOWARD THE MULTICULTURAL STATE
S. James Anaya
Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law
Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2004 p.13

Today, indigenous peoples are identified, and identify themselves, by reference to identities that pre-date historical encroachments by other groups and the ensuing histories that have challenged their cultural survival and self-determination as distinct peoples. The subsequent articles in this volume focus on the situations of particular indigenous groups. Written by legal experts who are members of the indigenous peoples they discuss, these articles tell of the continuing vitality and the struggles of the peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, the Maya of Guatemala, the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, the Saami of the European Far North, and the indigenous peoples of the Philippines. Numerous processes in the international system have focused on the common set of problems that are central to the demands of indigenous groups, such that there are discernible patterns of response and normative understandings associated with the rubric of indigenous peoples. These international processes now reveal a contemporary body of International human rights law on the subject. This Article sets forth the broad contours, and many of the sources of the international human rights regime, as it concerns indigenous peoples. It demonstrates that this regime advances a multicultural model of political ordering and incorporation of indigenous peoples into the fabric of the state. Under this model, indigenous peoples are able to join others in the states in which they live on the basis of equality – in terms of cultural identity and not just individual citizenship. Indigenous peoples are not to be forced or pressured to assimilate and thus, lose their distinctive cultural attributes to dominant cultural patterns. Rather, the terms of integration of indigenous peoples into the social and political orders of states must allow them to continue to live with their cultures intact. For indigenous peoples, such cultural integrity means the continuation of a range of cultural patterns; these patterns include those that establish rights to lands and natural resources and are embodied in indigenous customary law and institutions that regulate indigenous societies.

International Institutions Today: An Imperial Global State in the Making
B. S. Chimni
European Journal of International law
Volume 15, Number 1, February 2004 p.1-37

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