The United Nations: Confronting the Challenges of a Global SocietyJean E. Krasno Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004 - 443 páginas Despite the high visibility of the United Nations in various peacekeeping operations, the enormous role that it plays in the global arena goes largely unnoticed. This new book focuses on that larger role, bringing to life the evolutionary process of multilateral interaction that is the foundation of the organization, the sometimes heated politics behind its operations, and the key personalities who have shaped it. The authors move from the creation of the UN to the present debates about reform. Their discussion of UN activities - in the areas of human rights, elections, development, disarmament, and peacekeeping - as well as procedures offers an accessible introduction to a complex, critical subject. |
Contenido
Photographs | 9 |
An Evolutionary Process | 19 |
United Nations flag | 20 |
Signing of the UN Charter | 41 |
The United Nations and the Formation of Global Norms | 47 |
SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan receives the Nobel Peace Prize | 56 |
A Global Common Interest Charles Norchi | 79 |
Eleanor Roosevelt examines a UDHR poster | 82 |
UNTAC peacekeepers teach a Cambodian soldier to deactivate | 214 |
The Story of UN Peacekeeping | 225 |
First summitlevel meeting of Security Council heads of state | 247 |
UNPROFOR observation post in Croatia | 254 |
Financing the United Nations Jeffrey Laurenti | 271 |
Richard Holbrooke and former senator Jesse Helms visit | 286 |
Tables | 294 |
Informal Groups of Member States Jochen Prantl | 311 |
Letting the People Decide | 115 |
Woman casting her ballot in Angolas first multiparty election | 118 |
Agent of Change? The United Nations and Development | 163 |
Somali mother and her children wait for UNICEF medical | 165 |
Successes and Failures Derek Boothby | 193 |
Part 3 | 198 |
Lessons from a History | 359 |
List of Acronyms | 399 |
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About the Book 443 | |
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