Harris Gleckman (BEC): Global Governance in a Globalized World. David Freestone (UNSW): Problems of High Seas Governance. From German Law Journal, a special issue on the transnationalization of legal cultures. An excerpt from The Perils of Global Legalism by Eric Posner. From Carnegie Council, a panel on Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World by David L. Bosco. An interview with Mark Mazower, author of No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations (and more and more and the first chapter). A review of Conundrum: The Limits of the United Nations and the Search for Alternatives. A review of UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars by Lise Morje Howard. An interview with Edward Mortimer of the Salzburg Global Seminar on books about the United Nations. Joel Kotkin and Robert J. Cristiano on moving the United Nations to Dubai. The Keep: Justin Davidson on America’s medieval new U.N. mission. For the conservative World Congress of Families, the United Nations is a key battleground over abortion and "family values". Only two governments have not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Somalia and the US; President Obama supports ratification — on the opposing side are Christian Right home schoolers and believers in "American Exceptionalism". The limits of soft cultural power: Guarding precious and vulnerable places is one of the better things UNESCO does — but it may topple over if it stretches too far (and more and more).
