Emerging Powers and the Un: What Kind of Development Partnership?

ISBN-13: 9781138086548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 188 str.

Opis

The post-2015 sustainable development goals and the changing environment for development cooperation requires a renewed and transformed UN system. In line with their increasing significance as economic powers, a growing number of emerging countries will play an expanded role in the UN system, which could take the form of growing financial contributions, greater presence in governance, higher staff representation, a stronger voice in development deliberations, and a greater overall influence on the development agenda.

Emerging Powers and the UN explores in depth the relationship of these countries on the world stage and their role in the future UN development system. Formally, the relationship is through representation as member states (first UN) and also UN staff (second UN). However, the importance of civil society and market actors (third UN) in emerging countries is also growing.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Spis treści

Introduction: emerging powers and the UN – what kind of development partnership?  Part I – Inequalities And Multilateralism: Revisiting The North-South Axis  1. Assessing the G77: 50 years after UNCTAD and 40 years after the NIEO  2. South–South cooperation and the international development battlefield: between the OECD and the UN  3. How representative are BRICS?  Part II – The Changing Development Cooperation Landscape  4. Financing the UN development system and the future of multilateralism  5. Emerging powers at the UN: ducking for cover?  6. A changing world: is the UN development system ready?  7. South–South cooperation and the future of development assistance: mapping actors and options  8. Emerging powers as normative agents: Brazil and China within the UN development system  9. Emerging powers and the UN development system: canvassing global views  10. War-torn countries, natural resources, emerging-power investors and the UN development system