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It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, both by pollution and resource exhaustion (i.e. adding "bads" and subtracting "goods" from our natural endowment), a horrendous (and increasing) gap between rich and poor within and between...

Edward C. Luck, President Emeritus, Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Association of the United States of America

This book is important reading for anyone interested in the future of the UN. It contains hundreds of reform ideas, most of them sound, all of them stimulating. The diversity of views and subjects reflects the breadth of the UN s global agenda and the exemplary contributions Canadians have made to the world body. Many of Canada s UN experts are represented here; their work will remind us to look for inspiration and perspective when the going gets tough at...