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What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It 3e

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ISBN13
9781509507443
יצא לאור ב
Oxford
מהדורה
3rd Edition
זמן אספקה
21 ימי עסקים
עמודים
320
פורמט
Paperback / softback
תאריך יציאה לאור
19 באוג׳ 2016
מחליף את פריט
1A745659830
שם סדרה
PWWS - Polity Whats Wrong series
Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis.
Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today s UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9/11 has led to the next generation of multilateral institutions. But what exactly is wrong with the UN that makes it incapable of confronting contemporary global challenges and, more importantly, can we fix it? In this revised and updated third edition of his popular text, leading scholar of global governance Thomas G. Weiss takes a diagnose-and-cure approach to the world organization s inherent difficulties. In the first half of the book, he considers: the problems of international leadership and decision making in a world of self-interested states; the diplomatic complications caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North and the global South; the structural problems of managing the UN s many overlapping jurisdictions, agencies, and bodies; and the challenges of bureaucracy and leadership. The second half shows how to mitigate these maladies and points the way to a world in which the UN s institutional ills might be cured. Weiss s remedies are not based on pious hopes of a miracle cure for the UN, but rather on specific and encouraging examples that could be replicated. With considered optimism and in contrast to received wisdom, he contends that substantial change is both plausible and possible.
מידע נוסף
מהדורה 3rd Edition
עמודים 320
מחליף את פריט 1A745659830
פורמט Paperback / softback
ISBN10 1509507442
יצא לאור ב Oxford
תאריך יציאה לאור 19 באוג׳ 2016
תוכן עניינים About the Author Foreword by Sir Brian Urquhart Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Diagnosing the Ills 1 Westphalia, Alive But Not Well 2 North-South Theater 3 The Feudal System, or Dysfunctional Family 4 Overwhelming Bureaucracy and Underwhelming Leadership Part Two: Palliatives if Not Cures 5 Redefining National Interests 6 Moving Beyond the North-South Divide 7 Truly Delivering as One 8 Reinvigorating the International Civil Service Conclusion: What s Next? Selected Readings Notes Index
זמן אספקה 21 ימי עסקים