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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Weiss, Thomas George. United Nations and changing world politics. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997 (OCoLC)621848064 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas George Weiss; David P Forsythe; Roger A Coate |
| ISBN: | 0813399637 9780813399638 0813399629 9780813399621 |
| OCLC Number: | 36705827 |
| Description: | xxv, 320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword to the Second Edition / Inis L. Claude, Jr. -- Foreword to the Third Edition / Leon Gordenker -- The Legal Foundations of Sovereignty -- State Sovereignty -- Changing Raisons d'Etat -- The United Nations: Actor or Framework? -- UN Politics -- International Peace and Security -- The Theory of UN Collective Security -- Pioneering Cooperation: The Nineteenth Century and the League of Nations -- Collective Security in General -- The United Nations and Security: Some Basics -- Regional Arrangements -- Straying from the Course -- The Reality of UN Security Efforts During the Cold War -- The Early Years: Palestine, Korea, Suez, the Congo -- Understanding Peacekeeping -- "Chapter Six and a Half" on Hold, 1978-1988 -- Economic Sanctions -- UN Security Operations After the Cold War -- A Changing World: New Goals, New Roles -- The First UN Military Operations After the End of the Cold War, 1988-1993 -- The Rebirth of Peacekeeping -- Moving Toward the Next Generation -- Moving Toward Enforcement -- Nonforcible Sanctions in the Post-Cold War Era: Humanitarian Dilemmas -- Operational Quandaries: Cambodia, the Former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti -- Ever-Evolving Peacekeeping: Kosovo, East Timor, and Sierra Leone -- Groping into the Twenty-first Century -- Political Dynamics at the End of the 1990s -- Operational Changes: Adapting to New Conflicts -- Representational Changes: Adapting the Organization's Structure to the Interstate System -- Professional Changes: Strengthening the Secretariat -- Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. |
| Responsibility: | Thomas G. Weiss, David P. Forsythe, Roger A. Coate. |
Abstract:
In this fresh, thematic text, the authors bring the UN alive from its historical foundations to its expanding role in the post-Cold War arena. Students of all levels will learn what the UN is, how it operates, and what its relationships are with external actors and institutions. Using insights from their practical as well as academic experience with the UN, the authors show how the UN has influenced norms and operations in three keys areas - security, human rights, and sustainable development - and provide recommendations for improved UN performance in the future. Well-documented and illustrated, The United Nations and Changing World Politics is essential to a comprehensive and contemporary understanding of the world's leading intergovernmental organization.
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