Monte McMurchy

  Syria is the latest manifestation of the gross and sordid failure of the United Nations Security Council in its present form to be able to assure transparent, fair and honest approach to dealing with issues of great importance to the security of the world. The need and urgency to reform the UN-SC has...
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Corruption involves the abuse of a trust, which is the use of public power for private personal benefit. This often emerges in the form of monies and power, which to a degree can be considered as being not dissimilar. In rapidly changing societies the line separating the two is blurred; and the term “corruption”...
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  There seems to be some correlation between “bad” governance, lack of accountability and democracy, and the need for foreign (and humanitarian) aid. Unfortunately, the official aid agencies do not know how to change ‘bad’ governments into ‘good’ governments with the apparatus of foreign aid. ‘Bad’ government has far deeper roots than anything the...
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Elections can be very worthwhile institutions. They stabilize and regularize popular participation in overnment, and can provide decisive results about which leaders will direct the government. They provide a means not only for the citizens to direct and control their government, but also for the government to direct and control the mass citizenry. Elections...
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