Grading World Governance in December

December Global Governance Score: -14, +6

This is the second in a monthly series of reports designed to offer a simple metric for evaluating the quality of global governance. Suggestions on how to put the currently arbitrary and incomplete selection of events on a methodologically valid foundation are welcome.


===================================================================
Negative:

• Little substantive global agreement to move forward at Bali global warming conference
• Bhutto murdered
• Pakistani jurists remain imprisoned
• Bhutto's PPP party remains in family hands
• Turkey attacks Iraqi Kurds
• U.S. air war in Iraq continues at high level
• U.S. air war in Afghanistan continues at high level
• Lebanon fails again to elect president
• Israel expands settlements after Annapolis
• Iraqi ethnic/religious separation continues
• extension by UN Security Council of approval for the operation of foreign troops in Iraq despite the April condemnation of a majority of Iraq’s parliament
• Somali war between ICU and Ethiopia continues
• border tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea
• Ethiopians fail to meet U.N. deadline for implementing border agreement

Positive:

• Chavez accepted the results of the election he had called
• Iraqi, US deaths down
• Bali global warming conference held
• US paying Sunnis not to attack it
• US intelligence report on Iran lessens danger of U.S. attack
• Iranian pragmatist-reformer coalition formed for March parliamentary election

===================================================================