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UN ideas that changed the world
Ideas and concepts have been a driving force in human progress, and they
may be the most important legacy of the United Nations. UN ideas have set past,
present, and future international agendas in many global economic and social arenas
and have also led to initiatives and actions that have improved the quality of human
life. This capstone volume draws upon findings of the other 14 books in the
acclaimed United Nations Intellectual History Project Series. The authors not only
assess the development and implementation of UN ideas regarding sustainable economic
development and human security, but also apply lessons learned to suggest ways in
which the United Nations can play a fuller role in confronting the challenges of
human survival with dignity in the 21st century.
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Global Governance and the UN
In the 21st century, the world is faced with threats of global
scale that cannot be confronted without collective action. Although
global government as such does not exist, formal and informal
institutions, practices, and initiatives-together forming \"global
governance\"-bring a greater measure of predictability, stability,
and order to trans-border issues than might be expected. Yet, there
are significant gaps between many current global problems and
available solutions. Thomas G. Weiss and Ramesh Thakur analyze the
UN's role in addressing such knowledge, normative, policy,
institutional, and compliance lapses. The UN's relationship to
these five global governance gaps is explored through case studies
of some of the most burning problems of our age, including
terrorism, nuclear proliferation, humanitarian crises, development
aid, climate change, human rights, and HIV/AIDS.
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UN voices : the struggle for development and social justice
The authors have cajoled, intrigued, or reassured their 73 'voices'
into telling a fascinating story of the UN and its institutions, which is also a
story of 73 individual lives, of women and men... with their own complicated
histories of emigration and education, family relationships and professional
choices, hopes and successes. -- from the Foreword by Emma
Rothschild Far from being a distant bureaucracy, the UN is
composed of individuals who are reshaped by vital experiences. UN Voices gives
international civil servants human faces and shows how ideas drive the grand
experiment. It is a fascinating book. -- Arthur Schlesinger,
Jr. UN Voices presents the human and moving stories of an
extraordinary group of individuals who contributed to the economic and social record
of the UN's life and activities. Drawing from extensive interviews, the book
presents in their own words the experiences of 73 individuals from around the globe
who have spent much of their professional lives engaged in United Nations affairs.
We hear from secretaries-general and presidents, ministers and professors, social
workers and field workers, as well as diplomats and executive heads of UN agencies.
Among those interviewed are noted figures such as Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali,
Alister McIntyre, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, and Kurt
Waldheim, as well as many less well known UN professional men and women who have
made significant contributions to the international struggle for a better world.
Their personal accounts also engage their contributions in dealing with such events
and issues as the UN's founding, decolonization, the rise and fall of the Berlin
Wall, human rights, the environment, and September 11, 2001.
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Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development
International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN's development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an essential contributor to progress and peacebuilding.
This handbook explores the activities of the UN development system (UNDS), the largest operational pillar of the organization and arguably the arena in which its ideational endeavors have made the biggest contribution to thinking and standards. Contributions focus on the role of the UNDS in sustainable social, economic, and environmental development, describing how the UNDS interacts with the other major functions of the UN system, and exploring how it performs operationally in the context of the 2030 development agenda focused on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The volume is divided into three sections:
Realizing the SDGs: opportunities and challenges;
Resources, partnerships, and management; and
Imagining the future of the UN in development.
Composed of chapters by knowledgeable and authoritative UN experts, this book provides cutting-edge and up-to-date research on the strengths and weaknesses of the UNDS, with each chapter focusing on different operational and ideational aspects.
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Terrorism and the UN : before and after September 11
How has the United Nations dealt with the question of terrorism before and after September 11? What does it mean that the UN itself has become a target of terrorism? Terrorism and the UN analyzes how the UN's role in dealing with terrorism has been shaped over the years by the international system, and how events such as September 11 and the American intervention in Iraq have reoriented its approach to terrorism. The first half of the book addresses the international context. Chapters in this part consider the impact of September 11 on the UN's concern for the rights and security of states relative to those of individuals, as well as the changing attitudes of various Western powers toward multilateral vs. unilateral approaches to international problems. The second half of the book focuses more closely on the UN, its values, mechanisms, and history and its future role in preventing and reacting to terrorism. The Security Council's position on and reactions to terrorist activities are contrasted with the General Assembly's approach to these issues. What role the UN might play in suppressing the political economy of terrorism is considered. A concluding chapter looks at broader, more proactive strategies for addressing the root causes of terrorism, with an emphasis on social justice as a key to conflict prevention, a primary concern of the UN, particularly the General Assembly, before September 11. Contributors are Jane Boulden, Chantal de Jonge Oudraat (Georgetown University), Edward C. Luck (Columbia University), S. Neil MacFarlane (University of Oxford), Rama Mani (Geneva Centre for Security Policy), M. J. Peterson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Nico Schrijver (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), Mónica Serrano (Colegio de México and University of Oxford), Thierry Tardy (Geneva Centre for Security Policy), Karin von Hippel (King's College, London), and Thomas G. Weiss.
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