Author: Chadwick F. Alger Publisher: United Nations University Press ISBN: 9789280809732 Category : International Relations Languages : en Pages : 468
Book Description
What does the future hold for the UN? In this book, twenty-two scholars from all continents cover prevention of violence, creating economic and social structures that sustain human fulfilment, sharing and protecting the commons, and peace education. They offer sixty-six recommendations for new institutions and programs on issues that include controlling weapons, humanitarian intervention, human rights, economic policies, advancement of women, refugees, ecological security, communications, and peace education. Most of the recommendations do not require amendments to the UN Charter or to the treaties establishing the UN Specialized Agencies. Instead, their implementation would require creative efforts of Member States, secretariats, NGOs, and dedicated individuals that are pointed toward attainment of multilateral capacity for coping with an array of global problems that increasingly threaten the quality of human life.
Author: Jacques Fomerand Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 9780810870208 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 696
Book Description
Consisting of 192 Member States, the United Nations was founded in 1945 to maintain international peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations based on the respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples; to achieve international cooperation in solving problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character; and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. Just how successful the UN has been in maintaining these goals is covered in The A to Z of the United Nations. Author Jacques Fomerand provides a comprehensive dictionary of nearly 900 cross-referenced entries on the UN's various committees and organizations, its leaders, terms, policies, and major events in which the UN took part. Supplementing the dictionary entries are a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and appendixes, which include a reproduction of the UN's Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as a list of the Member States and when they joined.
Author: John P. Renninger Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9780792305323 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 310
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The papers concern political and military aspects of military security; world economic problems; a global approach to development and North -South relations; and the challenge to the United Nations.
Author: Dan Plesch Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134668732 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
The creation of the UN system during World War II is a largely unknown or forgotten story among contemporary decision makers, international relations specialists, and policy analysts. This book aims to recover the wartime history of the United Nations and explore how the forgotten past can shed light on a possible and more desirable future. To achieve this, each chapter takes three snapshots: "Then," the imaginative and transnational thinking about solutions to post-war problems demonstrated a realization that victory in WW II required an intergovernmental "system" with enough power and competence to work—that is, the UN was not established as a liberal plaything and public relations ploy but rather as a vital necessity for post-war order and prosperity. "Now," which often seems a pale imitation of wartime thinking that nonetheless reflects a growing and widespread recognition of the fundamental disconnect between the nature of trans-boundary problems and current solutions seen as feasible by 193 UN member states. "Next steps," or the collective wisdom about the range of new thinking and new institutions that, in fact, may well have antecedents in wartime thinking and experimentation and could be labelled blue-prints for a "third generation" of intergovernmental organizations. This work will be essential reading for all students and scholars of the United Nations, International Organizations and Global Governance.
Author: Klaus Hüfner Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH ISBN: 3732905446 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
On the one hand, the United States is “Number One” as contributor to the UN regular budget as well as to the budgets of the UN peacekeeping operations. On the other hand, the United States is also the largest debtor caused by either partially or fully deferred payments. This leads to a vicious circle: Large amounts of unpaid assessed contributions cause tremendous administrative difficulties for the programme budgeting activities of the UN. Also, many UN Specialized Agencies suffer under the US financial behaviour. The United States is in favour of shifting from assessed to voluntary contributions. Since most of them are restricted to specific projects or countries, this would imply that the US as the most important donor of voluntary contributions would also become the dominant decision-maker in the UN. The author analyses the funding behaviour of the United States over the last decades and shows that financial leverages are an inherent policy tool of the US vis-à-vis the UN.
Author: Chadwick F. Alger
Author: Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations
Author: Wassily Leontief
Author: James A. Paul
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Author: Jacques Fomerand
Author: John P. Renninger
Author: Dan Plesch
Author: Klaus Hüfner