Conveys the complexity of the UN, assesses its record, and considers options for reform. Presenting the entire history of the United Nations, this book explains how this complex organization works and explores its successes, failings and current limitations. It also considers possibilities for reform to make it more democratic and fit for purpose.
Explores the humanitarianism's emergence as a multibillion-dollar industry that has played a role in defining international crises, and shaping the foreign policy of Western governments and the United Nations. This title shows how the influence of international law has been used to override the sovereignty of the poorest countries in the world.
Traces the history of UNESCO from its foundational idealism to its stature as the preeminent international organization for science, education, and culture. This book provides an overview of the organization. It is suitable for students and scholars of international relations and international organizations.
The United Nations (UN) is an international organisation whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights and achieving world peace. This book presents the proceedings of a conference dedicated to the past, present and future of this organisation.
The United Nations (UN) aims at facilitating co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity. The UN is the only international political forum where almost all countries have a representative. This book presents an important analyses of direct significance to the UN.
A major issue facing the UN, the US, and the 110th Congress is the extent to which the United Nations has the capacity to restore or keep the peace in the changing world environment. This book delves into the increasing threats posed to the United Nations and the increases in both resources and personnel needed to keep the peace between nations.
The book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to provide the definitive analysis of the legal, historical, and political context in which the Security Council operates. They explore the different functions that the Council has acquired over the last 60 years, partly in response to the changing nature of war.
Analysing the UN interventions in Liberia, Burundi and the Congo, Wilen poses the question of how one can stabilize a state through external intervention without destabilizing sovereignty. She critically examines the justifications for international and regional interventions through a social constructivist framework.
The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) was established in December 2005. This book deals with the origins and evolution of peacebuilding as a concept, the creation and functioning of the UN Peacebuilding Commission as an institution, and the complicated relationship between these two processes.
This book analyses the negative and positive aspects of the UN organization. It sets out a full account of UN security, doctrine and action; disarmament strategies; criminal juristiction; human rights issues; globalization and poverty contradictions; and UN financing worries.
This book examines the transformation of the discourse and praxis of peace, from its early beginnings in the literature on war and power, to the development of intellectual and theoretical discourses of peace, contrasting this with the development of practical approaches to peace, and examining the intellectual and policy evolution regarding peace.
The fully updated new edition of this popular text provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the main areas of activity of the United Nations today, its organization and evolution and assesses its likely role and prospects for reform in the twenty-first century.
Today, virtually all UN bodies and specialized agencies are undertaking efforts to incorporate the promotion or protection of human rights into their programs and activities. This title examines these initiatives within the broader context of human rights practice, including the promotion of individual rights.
The UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has proposed a package of reforms that safeguard the rule of law, outlaw terrorism, and protect the innocent from abusive governments. This volume assembles the perspectives of practitioners, civil society representatives, and UN officials on transforming the secretary general's proposed reforms into action.
Explores the UN's role in international security, human rights and building peace through sustainable development. This title guides readers through the complexity of policies and history of the UN. It explains what the UN is, how it operates and what its relationships are with external actors and institutions.
Offers an insight into the United Nations - the Secretariat and its head, the Secretary-General, summing up the history, structure, strengths and weaknesses, and continuing operations of a global institution. This book is suitable for students of the UN, international organizations and global governance.
This study explores three generations of approaches to ending conflict in the context of the failings of the Westphalian international system. It asks what role such approaches have played and are playing in replicating an international system prone to intractable forms of conflict.
Observes how the growth of the political authority of the Council challenges the idea that states have legal autonomy over their domestic affairs. Demonstrating how world politics has come to accommodate the institutions of international authority and anarchy, this book contributes to how we understand international organizations and law.
In this work, the author reviews 70 years of work and writing on development economics and its relation to her own experience, from government planner in Denmark during the World War II, via the United Nations, to consultant concerned with today's problems of the Third World.
Since its inception in 1945, the United Nations has had a powerful but controversial influence on global politics. This guide provides an introduction to its institutions, remit, personalities, and role in the modern world. It argues that its limitations are due to the complex web of national interests that it seeks to reconcile.
Traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world. This book shows how the UN's creators envisioned a world organization that would protect the interests of empire.
Bartlett earned an MA in International Affairs at Drew University, studied International Relations and United Nations peacekeeping in depth and applied this knowledge to the specific situation in Cyprus. This comprehensive work is written in an authoritative style that will prove thought-provoking for people interested in politics.
Guides readers through the complexities of the politics and history of the UN. This work uses a thematic approach to explore the institution's role in three critical issues in international relations: international peace and security; human rights and humanitarian affairs; and building peace through sustainable development.
Today, virtually all UN bodies and specialized agencies are undertaking efforts to incorporate the promotion or protection of human rights into their programs and activities. This title examines these initiatives within the broader context of human rights practice, including the promotion of individual rights.
The book analyses the national interests and mutual concerns which shaped relations and strategy at the United Nations during the critical moments of the establishment of the State of Israel and the following forty years, before the ramifications of the Iranian Revolution became apparent.
Intended for undergraduates, graduates and those interested in the key institutions of international public policy. Looking at the antecedents of the UN Security Council, as well as the issues and challenges that it faces, this book includes: historical perspectives; the founding vision; procedures and practices; economic enforcement; and more.