NGO Diplomacy: The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental Negotiations
Edited by Michele M. Betsill and Elisabeth Corell

Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on climate change, biosafety, desertification, whaling, and forests.
November 2007   ISBN-13 978-0-262-52476-6   $20.00/£12.95 (PAPER)
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Fed up with the federal government’s refusal to control illegal immigration, a South Carolina Senator has proposed using Article V of the Constitution to give states the powers to control illegals.

Little by little high tech surveillance equipment is being accepted as being beneficial to us. When the time is right, the government can easily convert this equipment into a system of unprecedented control over the population similar to the description given by James Orwell in his novel 1984.

A quick glimpse into the awful habit that is Depleted Uranium use

It is common for the president to us Orwellian doublespeak but his address at the opening ceremony of the United Nations was the penultimate in audacity. This president has done more harm to human rights than any other in history. A Jazzman Chronicle by Jack Random.

Recent victory of Turkey’s Islamist party in democratic elections, in defiance of military’s interference, has elated both Islamists and the secular-democrats all over the world. They believe this marks the beginning of flourishing of true secular democracy not only in Turkey but also in the wider Islamic world. Well, it can also mark the beginning of the end of Muslim world’s only secular-democracy, howsoever imperfect it may have been.

To be, or not to be, politically correct that is what is discussed here.

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