Agenda for Change: New Tasks for the United Nations

ISBN-13: 9783663092278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 316 str.

Klaus Hufner

Opis

The 50th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation is commemorated in 1995. The UN emerged at the end of the most bloody war in the history of contemporary civilization and it is understandable that its founding fathers were concerned first and foremost with the need "to save succeeding gen erations from the scourge of war." This great historical mission of the new international organisation was determined and designed by the allied powers that had won the war against the "enemy states." Cooperation of the perma nent members of the UN Security Council was the basic element of the effi ciency of post -war system of international peace and security. Apart from this main mission, the founding fathers of the United Nations declared their determination "to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social prog ress and better standards of life in larger freedom" (preamble, UN Charter)."

Spis treści

I. The United Nations System in a Changing Environment: Retrospect and Prospect The Five Decades of the United.- The Five Decades of the United Nations: Accomplishments and Limitations.- The Functional Approach, the Charter, and New Challenges for the United Nations.- From Interdependence to Global Partnership: Megatrends in International Transformation.- Restructuring the United Nations: A Must to Respond to the New Tasks, or a Substitute for Action?.- New Tasks of the UN System in the Changing Environment: Political and Security Aspects.- II The Security Council, Peace-keeping and Peacemaking.- Enhancing the Peacemaking and Peace-keeping Capacity of the United Nations.- Time for Change: The Reorganisation of the Security Council.- UN Arrangements for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security: The Situation in 1994.- Prospects for a Division of Labour Between the UN and Regional Bodies in Peace-keeping: A Long-Term Challenge.- In Defence of International Peace and Security: New Missions for the United Nations.- Former Yugoslavia — Some Lessons for United Nations Members.- The United Nations as a Core Structure of International Peace and Security?.- III. The United Nations at the Crossroads of Reform: Economic and Social Issues.- Reforming the United Nations: A Necessity and an Illusion.- The United Nations in Global Economic and Social Policy-Making.- Reforming the Economic and Social Sectors of the United Nations: An Incomplete Process.- Financing the UN: Proposals for Reform.- List of Contributors.- The United Nations in Its Second Half-Century.- A Report of the Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations.