The United Nations: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780230208902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str.

Sven Bernhard Gareis

Opis

The fully updated new edition of this popular text provides a systematic introduction to the main areas of activity of the United Nations today, its organization and evolution and assesses its likely role and prospects for reform in the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

The United Nations System Institution-Building, Regime Impact, and Globalization: The Role and Function of the UN The Core of the United Nations: Collective Security The Changing Practice of Peacekeeping The United Nations and Human Rights: Normative Development, Codification, and Definition Human Rights Protection: Institutional Framework and Code of Practice Economic, Developmental and Environmental Questions in the UN: Problem Areas and Institutional Design Reforms for the Twenty-first Century Conclusions.

O autorze

Sven Bernhard Gareis is Deputy Dean at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Professor of Political Science at the University of Münster, Germany.

Blurb

There hardly seems to be a global issue in the world today in which the United Nations (UN) is not expected to play a key role. And indeed, despite a persistent gulf between high expectations and the UN's capacities, the organization continues to be a unique and indispensable actor in areas such as peace maintenance, human rights protection, and development.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of this highly acclaimed text provides a concise analysis of the UN, its structure and work, achievements and shortcomings, and its likely role and prospects in the twenty-first century. The new edition covers the latest institutional and structural developments – including the creation of the Peacebuilding Commission and the establishment of a permanent Human Rights Council – and reflects recent debates on UN reform.