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Zusatztext This Handbook will contribute to a better understanding of the United Nations! and serve the collective mission of those committed to ensuring that the peoples of the world are able to live! as is their birthright! in the larger freedom which the UN Charter promises to all. Informationen zum Autor Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He was the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and past president of the International Studies Association and recipient of its '2016 Distinguished IO Scholar Award', chair of the Academic Council on the UN System, editor of Global Governance, and Research Director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, he has authored or edited some 55 books and written 250 articles and book chapters about international peace and security, humanitarian action, and sustainable development. ; Sam Daws is Director of the Project on UN Governance and Reform, in the Centre for International Studies, DPIR, at the University of Oxford, and directs the international political consultancy, 3D Strategy. He has spent thirty years in UN-related roles, including as Deputy Director (United Nations, Prime Minister's Post-2015 Development Team) in the UK Cabinet Office; Senior Principal Research Analyst, Multilateral Policy Directorate, FCO; First Officer in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; Executive Director, UNA-UK; Senior Advisor and UK Representative, UN Foundation; and as Visiting Fellow, International Law at Cambridge University. He has co-authored or edited fourteen books on the United Nations. Klappentext Building on the success of the first edition, this volume offers a revised and updated analysis of the UN, and will be an essential point of reference for all those working on or in the organization. Zusammenfassung This Handbook provides in one volume an authoritative and independent treatment of the UN's seventy-year history! written by an international cast of more than 50 distinguished scholars! analysts! and practitioners. It provides a clear and penetrating examination of the UN's development since 1945 and the challenges and opportunities now facing the organization. It assesses the implications for the UN of rapid changes in the world - from technologicalinnovation to shifting foreign policy priorities - and the UN's future place in a changing multilateral landscape. Citations and additional readings contain a wealth of primary and secondary references to the history! politics! and law of the world organization. This key reference also contains appendices of theUN Charter! the Statute of the International Court of Justice! and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introduction and Origins; 1 Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws: The United Nations: Continuity and Change; 2 Justin Morris: Origins of the United Nations; Part II: Theoretical Frameworks; 3 Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore: Political Approaches; 4 Jose E. Alvarez: Legal Perspectives; 5 Leon Gordenker and Christer Jonsson: Evolution in Knowledge and Norms; Part III: Principal Organs; 6 M. J. Peterson: General Assembly; 7 Sebastian von Einsiedel and David Malone: Security Council; 8 Gert Rosenthal: Economic and Social Council; 9 Ralph Wilde: Trusteeship Council; 10 Charlotte Ku: International Court of Justice; 11 James O. C. Jonah and Amy Scott Hill: Secretariat: Independence and Reform; 12 Edward Newman: Secretary-General; 13 Jeffrey Laurenti: Financing; Part IV: Relationships with Other Actors; 14 Ngaire Woods: Bretton Woods Institutions; 15 Rorden Wilkinson: World Trade Organization; 16 Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu: Regional Organizations; 17 Monica Herz: Formal and Informal Groups; 18 Mike Schroeder and Paul Wapner: Nongovernmental Organizations; 19 Craig N. Murphy: Pr...
