Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an ‘unholy alliance’ of the Holy See and a handful of conservative Muslim governments … MDGs in 2005. The moral standing of religious institutions, such as the Holy See, is undermined by such opportunistic …

Since their emergence in 2001, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have become accepted as consensus objectives of … international normative framework of development. This paper focuses on the MDGs as ideas and international norms to explain how … Sikkink’s analytical framework of international norm dynamics, and argues that the MDGs have proved an effective mechanism to …

This paper provides a chronological account of the evolution of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It examines … the MDGs in 2001. This account reveals the complexity and unpredictability of global policymaking processes. Although the … overarching structures of economic and political power framed all negotiations, so the MDGs are largely a rich world product for …