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.
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9781509507474
Publisert
2016
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3. utgave
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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