International commissions and the power of ideas / edited by Ramesh Thakur, Andrew F. Cooper, and John English.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

International commissions and the mind of global governance / Andrew Cooper, John English -- The Brandt Commission : the end of an era in North-South politics / Jean-Phillipe Thérien -- The Palme Commission : new thinking about security / Geoffrey Wiseman -- The World Commission on Environment and Development : ideas and institutions intersect / Heather Smith -- Equivocating on the future of world order : the Commission on Global Governance / W. Andy Knight -- Regulating the possession and use of nuclear weapons : ideas, commissions, and agency in international security politics - the case of the Canberra Commission / Marianne Hanson -- Beyond temples and tombs : towards effective governance for sustainable development through the World Commission on Dams / Sanjeev Khagram -- Fair assessment : the Independent International Commission on Kosovo / Richard Goldstone, Nicole Fritz -- Intervention, sovereignty, and the responsibility to protect / Ramesh Thakur -- The responsibility to protect : assessing the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty / Jennifer Welsh, Carolin Thielking, S. Neil MacFarlane -- The responsibility to protect : humanitarian intervention and the principal of non-intervention in the Americas / Jorge Heine -- Ideas, institutions, and the evolution of women's human rights / Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon -- Ideas, think-tanks, commissions, and global politics / Jon Pedersen -- UN reform commissions : is anyone listening? / Edward Luck.