All Mondial articles
Every article from the Citizens for Global Solutions and World Federalist Movement – Canada journal, alongside selected writing from allied organisations, searchable and cross-referenced by topic, issue and source.
Articles
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International Relations Theory and World View
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2019
Foreign Affairs elevates ‘Tech World’ and ‘Warming World’ as autonomous IR approaches. The journal’s anthology highlights emerging challenges in technology and climate change.
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Donald Trump, foreign policy, and UNEPS
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2019
Donald Trump’s withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan highlights security resource gaps. The article calls for a UN Emergency Peace Service to enhance global peace efforts.
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CNAP Update: First progress report and and an ambassador for women, peace and security
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2019
Progress on Canada’s second women, peace and security action plan is reported more thoughtfully than before, but objectives are rated without any stated method or targets. A promised ambassador for the file is welcome, though her duties remain unclear.
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Canada’s Mali peacekeeping deployment update
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2018
Canada promised in 2016 and 2017 to re-engage in UN peacekeeping but made no substantial deployment until summer 2018, and WFM–C wants longer commitments than the Mali stint, tracked by its Canadians for UN Peacekeeping project.
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R2P Update: UN SC side event and MENA trainings emphasize prevention
December 2018
The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect and partners convened a UN Security Council side event in October 2018 on women’s roles in atrocity and conflict prevention, producing concrete action points ahead of the 2019 UN Commission on the Status of Women meetings. The ICRtoP also conducted Responsibility to Protect training sessions in Beirut in December 2018, in partnership with the Permanent Peace Movement, to strengthen civil society capacity in the MENA region.
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Anthropocene by Edward Burtynsky
December 2018
Burtynsky’s photographs, a film premiering at Sundance in 2019 and museum shows in Toronto, Ottawa and Bologna carry a single project on humanity’s mark on the planet.
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The Responsibility to Protect: From Promise to Practice by Bellamy and Luck
December 2018
Alex Bellamy and Edward Luck examine the decade-long gap between international endorsement of the Responsibility to Protect principle and its repeated failures in cases such as Syria and Libya in The Responsibility to Protect: From Promise to Practice. Bellamy, director of the Asia Pacific Centre for R2P, and Luck, former UN Special Adviser on R2P, recommend combining short-term emergency policies with longer-term structural reforms to close that gap.
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Supranational Political Economy by Guido Montani
December 2018
In Supranational Political Economy, Guido Montani argues that a supranational governance framework modeled on European integration can rebalance politics and economics from Bretton Woods-era disorder through contemporary ecological and globalization crises. The book contends that a supranational world order allows global capitalism, inequality, and ecological challenges to be governed rather than left to uncoordinated nation-states.
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A new vehicle for Progressive Multilateralism
December 2018
Germany’s foreign minister has proposed an alliance of middle powers to defend international rules as the United States retreats from them. A coalition of equals could steady the world order better than any single hegemon, if it avoids open confrontation with Washington.
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Why the UN is in danger of becoming irrelevant
December 2018
The world’s increasing interconnectedness has created systemic risks, from pandemics to regional conflicts, that challenge the current international order. The article argues that existing global governance systems, including the UN, are structurally outdated and incapable of addressing these modern challenges.
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ICC Update
December 2018
This update provides a status report on various international criminal justice cases, covering situations in Darfur, the DRC, Georgia, Libya, and other regions. It details ongoing investigations and pending cases before the International Criminal Court, including the preliminary examinations in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and others.
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Making Effective Use of Existing Legal Obligations in the Face of Atrocity Crimes
December 2018
A permanent Security Council member that vetoes action against genocide breaks its own treaty duty to prevent it. The General Assembly could ask the International Court of Justice whether unrestrained vetoes in the face of atrocity are lawful.
