Yet the same neighbours embrace European or multinational governance pragmatically.
Mr Kostunica feels the Serbs should not lend legitimacy to the province's "multinational" governance, because that was torn to shreds by last March's anti-minority violence which chased 4,000 Serbs and Roma from their homes.
But now it's a truly global network and we need a multinational governance structure that a) reflects that reality but b) doesn't break the openness and vitality of the system.
Cases at the local, national, and multinational levels include new governance institutions or arrangements that have supported landscape restoration in a given context, and the innovative use of existing governance structures to produce landscape-level forest restoration.
Second, international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF are increasingly linking the aid they offer to poor countries to those countries' willingness to provide "good governance".The multinationals' involuntary cartel has its origin in America's 20-year-old Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which made it a criminal offence for American companies to bribe foreign officials.
This statement would appear to have more credence for the global extractive industry judging by the increasing number of transnational transparency initiatives, ambit of transnational legislation, the growing emphasis on corporate governance and relatively recent multinational prosecutions of companies such as Baker Hughes, Halliburton, ABB, Vetco Gray, Royal Dutch Shell, Total and Siemens.
The scandal cast a pall over confidence in corporate governance at Japan's biggest multinational companies, as investors asked whether Olympus had been a bad apple or whether more Japanese corporations were hiding bombshells in their financial books.
The most promising Indonesian companies are local subsidiaries of multinational conglomerates, he says, because strong corporate governance is balanced with local-market experience.
The great news is, because of the bunch of campaigning that's happened in the last couple of years, there are laws in place, improving global governance norms about how the international, multinational resource exploitation companies have to behave.
This paper addresses how the global activities undertaken by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in international settings impact corporate governance mechanisms and accountability systems.
At the heart of our conversation lay the seemingly insurmountable challenge of how to create a global governance and accountability system that incorporates multinational corporations and holds them accountable for their actions.
