The United Nations in the New World Order: The World Organization at Fifty
With the end of the Cold War, the UN has shown a new dynamism, reflecting a qualitative change in attitudes and perceptions of the international community. The focus of the book is on the ability of the UN to sustain this new dynamism in the years ahead. It will examine the roles of the UN in the vital areas of international peace and security as well as in the realms of human rights, disarmament and arms control and economic development. The contributors, who are experts in the UN system, address the conditions which can make the UN more effective and present suggestions on the ways to improve the utilization of the world organisation so as to increase its efficacy.
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The United Nations in the New World Order: The World Organization at Fifty
With the end of the Cold War, the UN has shown a new dynamism, reflecting a qualitative change in attitudes and perceptions of the international community. The focus of the book is on the ability of the UN to sustain this new dynamism in the years ahead. It will examine the roles of the UN in the vital areas of international peace and security as well as in the realms of human rights, disarmament and arms control and economic development. The contributors, who are experts in the UN system, address the conditions which can make the UN more effective and present suggestions on the ways to improve the utilization of the world organisation so as to increase its efficacy.
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The United Nations in the New World Order: The World Organization at Fifty

The United Nations in the New World Order: The World Organization at Fifty

The United Nations in the New World Order: The World Organization at Fifty

The United Nations in the New World Order: The World Organization at Fifty

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With the end of the Cold War, the UN has shown a new dynamism, reflecting a qualitative change in attitudes and perceptions of the international community. The focus of the book is on the ability of the UN to sustain this new dynamism in the years ahead. It will examine the roles of the UN in the vital areas of international peace and security as well as in the realms of human rights, disarmament and arms control and economic development. The contributors, who are experts in the UN system, address the conditions which can make the UN more effective and present suggestions on the ways to improve the utilization of the world organisation so as to increase its efficacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333631232
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 04/04/1995
Edition description: 1995
Pages: 219
Sales rank: 349,152
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - International Peace and Security: New Challenges to the UN; L.Voronkov - The United Nations and the International Political System; R.J.B.Jones - Leadership, the United Nations and the New World Order; J.Wiener - UN Reform: The Post-Cold-War World Organization; G.Kostakos - The UN Secretary-Generalship at Fifty; B.Rivlin - UN Peacekeeping: Recent Developments and Current Problems; A.James - UN Sanctions against Yugoslavia: Two Years Later; V.Dimitrijevic & J.Pejic - New Directions in Disarmament; D.Bourantonis & M.Evriviades - Human Rights Organizations and the UN: a Tale of Two Worlds; P.R.Baehr - The Realpolitik and the CNN Factor of Humanitarian Intervention; E.Newman - Index
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