He recognizes the need for "a representative form of global governance," for "multilateral laws and institutions that constrain others and provide a framework for cooperation" and maybe even for "a loose constitutional framework" with parts of Europe.
We need to build a multilateral, law-based system not as a naive idea but as a practical idea.
Post-war Liberia was also a fertile ground for policy experiments by multilaterals, law and business professors, and consultants hired by the likes of businessman George Soros and Tony Blair – whose Africa Governance Initiative works to build capacity in government ministries – names that brought status and donor dollars.
Since the launch of what we today call the EU, organizing a pooled transnational government, anchored in multilateral international law treaties of deepening and widening, and fueled by domestic constitutional law arrangements, has proven a constant theme in the evolution of the integration framework.
Whoever formulates policy, it is still, say critics, inimical to the interests of (some) Europeans, international law, multilateral institutions and traditional alliances.
The difference between the idea that international law, multilateral institutions and formal alliances enhance our power -- the Wilson-F.D.R.-Truman-Kennedy idea -- and the view that they needlessly constrain our power, is a very important difference indeed.
Ideally a web of multilateral institutions and laws would impose order and hold wayward countries in line.
Transdniestria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia do not subscribe to the Euroatlantic vision of multilateral security and law-governed political freedom.
American hawks and neocons believe that peace comes from robust projection of national power; doves, that it comes from multilateral cooperation and international law.
As President Bush knocks down treaty after treaty, he erodes the principles of rule of law and multilateral cooperation that are critical in the post-Sept.
What makes modern war modern for Clark is not just high-tech gadgetry but both the limitations and the opportunities provided by public opinion, international law and multilateral institutions.
