In this fresh, thematic text, the authors bring the UN alive from its historical foundations to its expanding role in the post–Cold War arena. Students of all levels will learn what the UN is, how it operates, and what its relationships are with external actors and institutions. Using insights from their practical as well as academic experience with the UN, the authors show how the UN has influenced norms and operations in three key areas—security, human rights, and sustainable development—and provide recommendations for improved UN performance in the future. Well-documented and illustrated, The United Nations and Changing World Politics is essential to a comprehensive and contemporary understanding of the world’s leading intergovernmental organization.
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The end of the bipolar world order as embodied in the cessation of the Cold War competition between the United Nations and the former Soviet Union has found the United Nations at a pivotal point in history. The authors, all with academic and practical UN experience, examine how Moscow's new willingness to work more cooperatively within the UN has both changed Washington's posture toward the multilateral institution and made a definite impact on the overall international political climate. Most of the book covers three key issues: international peace and security; human rights and the growing influence of nonstate actors; and sustainable development/ecodevelopment. The authors skillfully analyze the UN's future in its ability to create new organizational mechanisms to deal effectively with the changing nature of conflict, which is steadily shifting from interstate wars to intrastate insurgencies. Appendixes include the UN charter and additional readings. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.
Stephen W. Green, Auraria Lib., Denver
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Stephen W. Green, Auraria Lib., Denver
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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“With the latest edition of this widely used textbook, Weiss, Forsythe, Coate, and Pease continue the themes that have made the book so popular…a cogent introduction to theoretical debates and real-world problems… this book will engage students and general readers alike.” –Choice
Praise for Previous Editions
“Since its first edition in the mid-1990s, this book has been the standard text on the UN for courses in international organization. No other book can compete with its sophisticated analysis and up-to-date information.” —Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College
“[The authors] focus on the most important questions of international governance—human security, human rights, and sustainable development—and provide students with a wealth of information enabling them to make their own informed conclusions about the UN system’s contributions to answering them.” —M. J. Peterson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Few stories are as complex, as misunderstood, or as urgent as that of the United Nations. No one tells it better than this dynamic author team. Already a classic, their text offers invaluable insights into how the world tries, fails, and tries again to govern itself.” —Edward Luck, Columbia University
“These civilized voices from the ‘other America’ have done it again! Taking as their principal themes peace and security, human rights and humanitarian issues, as well as sustainable human development, [the authors] guide us through the intricacies of politics at the UN in the form of an analytical narrative of global problems. This is not only for students and practitioners in the United States, but elsewhere, too, if we are to get an authentic and welcome voice of that ‘other America.’” —A.J.R. Groom, University of Kent
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“Since its first edition in the mid-1990s, this book has been the standard text on the UN for courses in international organization. No other book can compete with its sophisticated analysis and up-to-date information.” —Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College
“[The authors] focus on the most important questions of international governance—human security, human rights, and sustainable development—and provide students with a wealth of information enabling them to make their own informed conclusions about the UN system’s contributions to answering them.” —M. J. Peterson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Few stories are as complex, as misunderstood, or as urgent as that of the United Nations. No one tells it better than this dynamic author team. Already a classic, their text offers invaluable insights into how the world tries, fails, and tries again to govern itself.” —Edward Luck, Columbia University
“These civilized voices from the ‘other America’ have done it again! Taking as their principal themes peace and security, human rights and humanitarian issues, as well as sustainable human development, [the authors] guide us through the intricacies of politics at the UN in the form of an analytical narrative of global problems. This is not only for students and practitioners in the United States, but elsewhere, too, if we are to get an authentic and welcome voice of that ‘other America.’” —A.J.R. Groom, University of Kent
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This book offers an excellent overview of the United Nations and the various arms that exist within its alphabet soup. The authors approach the subject through several theoretical lenses and look at world order and how the United Nations has shaped it and what that order will look like in the future with the UN. The authors break the book into three interrelated areas of security, human rights and economic development/globalization. Each area is looked at in three pieces that are broad in scope. The first is the historical perspective of how the UN has approached each area, then a current look at how the UN is doing and finally what role will the UN play in the future. In the last part it is a look at how world order is structured because of UN actions. The book is very well written and is almost a modern classic for those who study international relations and want to understand how the UN fits into the world. No matter the stance on pro or anti UN this is a great book to start understanding what role the UN plays in the world and a masterpiece of scholarship.
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College-level courses strong in international peace-keeping and UN history will find the sixth updated edition of Thomas G. Weiss, et.al.'s THE UNITED NATIONS AND CHANGING WORLD POLITICS an exceptional pick. It features a new chapter on evolving security operations, updates discussions of the UN's actions around the world, and discusses the global economic and financial crisis to bring all details up to date. College-level courses in political science and UN history will find this essential.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the disappearance of the Soviet Union in late 1991 ushered in a period of rapid change in world politics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonforcible sanctions, landlocked developing countries, sustainable human development, socioeconomic rights, changing world politics, recognized human rights, trusteeship agreements, human security, international civil service, trusteeship system, troop contributors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, United States, New York, General Assembly, World Bank, Oxford University Press, South Africa, Soviet Union, High Commissioner, Kofi Annan, East Timor, Lynne Rienner, Third World, Bretton Woods, Sub-Saharan Africa, Human Development Report, Sierra Leone, League of Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Cambridge University Press, Brookings Institution, United Kingdom, Persian Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Westview Press New!
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nonforcible sanctions, landlocked developing countries, sustainable human development, socioeconomic rights, changing world politics, recognized human rights, trusteeship agreements, human security, international civil service, trusteeship system, troop contributors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, United States, New York, General Assembly, World Bank, Oxford University Press, South Africa, Soviet Union, High Commissioner, Kofi Annan, East Timor, Lynne Rienner, Third World, Bretton Woods, Sub-Saharan Africa, Human Development Report, Sierra Leone, League of Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Cambridge University Press, Brookings Institution, United Kingdom, Persian Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Westview Press New!
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