What is the GAP report? The One World Trust’s Global Accountability Report examines the accountability of intergovernmental organisations (IGOs), providing scores for their performance in two aspects of accountability: member
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This letter was sent to William Shawcross, the well-known writer and broadcaster, in response to his 2003 Harkness Lecture, “After Iraq: America and Europe” which you can read here. Dear
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A submission to the Ministry of Defence by Federal Union, 19 January 2003 1. This submission falls into four parts. First, what is Federal Union? Secondly, what is missile defence?
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A submission by Federal Union to the Department of Trade and Industry, 2 January 2003 1. This submission falls into four parts. First, what is Federal Union? Secondly, why we
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By Richard Laming Notes for “Federalism and the global challenges”, Ventotene, 4 September 2002 What do federalists think of globalisation? What is globalisation? It is people and organisations doing things
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An axiom of world federalism is that decisions should be made locally, as close as possible to the people, and reserved upwards to a higher authority only if that is
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By William Greider The promise of Seattle was captured in an antic moment observed by one young environmental activist. Amid broad ranks of protesters, he saw that a squad of
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By Laura Davis Slobodan Milosevic’s transfer from his Belgrade prison to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on 28 June 2001 was headline news: he would be the
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By Geoffrey Robertson QC The immediate and rightful response of the United States to the atrocity of 11 September was to demand ‘justice’, although that word sounded, in many powerful
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By Richard Laming The military action in Afghanistan has no end in sight. The world still awaits a clear definition of what the war is for. It is clear that
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