A United Nations for the Twenty-First Century: Peace, Security and Development

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-90-411-0312-3
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 844 g

This collective work brings together scholars, international civil servants and field practitioners who examine a wide range of theoretical and practical problems as well as challenges confronting the world and the United Nations at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

The papers in this volume have been organized under themes which focus on problem areas and challenges that mankind must unavoidably deal with collectively in the years ahead, much as it has attempted to do during the past half-century.

The contributors address the triangular relationship between peace, security and development and raise questions about the relevance of the UN system in the decades to come. The authors do so through reflection on past experiences and relevant philosophical inquiries.

They examine specific cases and experiences that are representative of the relevance or irrelevance of past collective actions in the security and non-security fields and suggest new ideas and concepts that attempt to marry theory and practice. In this connection, aspects of peacemaking and peacekeeping, arms control, economic development, human rights and the critical role of education are amongst the topics analyzed and assessed.

One of the underlying themes of the volume is that the challenges of the 21st century will be of unprecedented magnitude. Unless the UN system is reformed and revitalized it runs the risk of becoming irrelevant.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bourantonis, Dimitris

Evriviades, Marios

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Vereinte Nationen, UN Organisationen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations.
Introduction: Peace, Security and Development: Roles for the UN in the Twenty-First Century; D. Bourantonis, M. Evriviades.
I: The Setting.
1. International Society at a Crossroads: The Problem of Conceptualization; P. Tsakaloyannis.
2. The Search for a New Global Order: Rehabilitating the Ideas of the Global State; R. Seidelmann.
3. Great Powers, Superpowers and Global Powers: Managerial Succession for a New World Order; A. Henrikson.
II: Security and UN Diplomacy.
4. Explaining the UN's Unhappy 50th Anniversary: Toward Reclaiming the Next Half-Century; R. Falk.
5. The UN and the World Diplomatic System: Lessons from the Cyprus and US–North Korea Talks; G. Berridge.
6. Boutros Ghali's Ordeal: Leading the UN in an Age of Uncertainty; B. Rivlin.
7. Burdensome Victory: The UN and Iraq; A.J.R. Groom, et al.
III: International Peacekeeping.
8. The Dual Nature of UN Peacekeeping; A. James.
9. Can UN Peacekeepers do the Job? J. Grinberg.
10. Keeping the Peace: A Military Perspective; F. Henn.
11. Cyprus 1964: Subversion of a Mission; M. Packard.
IV: Disarmament and Arms Control.
12. Contribution of the UN to Arms Control; J. Goldblat.
13. Small Arms and Internal Conflicts: Disarmament in the Framework of UN Peace Operations; S. Lodgaard.
14. Lessons from the Disarmament of Fractions in Civil Wars; S. Croft.
V: The UN in Economic Development.
15. Supporting the South's Industrial Revolution after the Cold War: Developing Countries and the Emerging New International Economic Order; A. Singh.
16. Foreign Aid, Economic Development and the Role of the UN; G. Mavrotas.
17. Human Development and the International Community; R. Cassen.
18. UN and Human Rights Education; J. Symonides.
Index.