Simon Chesterman (NUS): The Outlook for UN Reform. From Cultural Survival Quarterly, a special issue on Truth Commissions. The Phantom Menace: Phantom states field armies, hold elections, and run economies, yet they inhabit a foggy space between de facto statehood and international legitimacy. Terhi Anneli Jyrkkio (Helsinki): "Other Inhumane Acts" as Crimes Against Humanity. Heikki Patomaki (Finland): Towards Global Political Parties. The Lions of Lagos, the Rotarians of Rawalpindi: How the civic groups that once defined America are thriving abroad, and what it means for us. Fabrice Weissman (MSF): Criminalising the Enemy and its Impact on Humanitarian Action. The comparison of genocides is neither a crude equation nor an equivalence of evil, argues historian Ugur Umit Ungor. Joel P. Trachtman (Tufts): The Crisis in International Law. From This, Linda McQuaig on the United Nations Emergency Peace Service. Olivera Simic (Griffith): Bringing “Justice” Home? Bosnians, War Criminals and the Interaction between the Cosmopolitan and the Local. Why should we help people in need beyond our borders? A review of Cosmopolitan Regard: Political Membership and Global Justice by Richard Vernon. Kenneth Anderson (American): "Accountability" as "Legitimacy": Global Governance, Global Civil Society and the United Nations. A review of Making Sense of Mass Atrocity by Mark Osiel. Joseph W. Dellapenna (Villanova): The Forms of International Law. From Neiman Reports, a special issue on Shattering Barriers to Reveal Corruption. From Cadmus, Andreas Bummel (KDUN): Towards a Global Democratic Revolution; and Jasjit Singh (CAPS): Revolution in Human Affairs: The Root of Societal Violence. From Diplomatic Courier, a series explores the United Nations through the lens of legitimacy (and part 2 and part 3 and part 4).
