CiNii 図書 - Utopia lost : the United Nations and world order

With the end of the cold war, the marginalization of the UN appears to be a thing of the past. The UN has been in the headlines since 1990, when the Security Council's swift response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait gave the impression of a revitalised institution. But the currents of change sweeping the outside world have had little effect inside the UN. With the UN's new prominence has come a greater frankness about its deep-seated inadequacies--whether as guardian of peace and human rights, as forum for the exchange of ideas, or as a catalyst for multilateral cooperation. The ideals and cooperative purposes the UN stands for have retained their resonance, and powerful governments are more ready than ever to turn to it--if the UN meets the needs of a new and more active era of multilateral diplomacy. Righter argues that the West has been mistaken to concentrate on reforming the worst-run parts of it. As the Bretton Woods institutions have shown, demand-led reform is key, and the successful UN organizations will be those that adapt to a competitive multilateral world. Rosemary Righter is the chief editorial writer of The Times, London, specialising in international affairs. Formerly a diplomatic correspondent for The Sunday Times, she has covered many UN missions in the field.

巻冊次: pbk. ISBN 9780870783593

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Rosemary Righter examines the UN's future place in a world of tumultuous political and technological change, presenting an anatomy of the complex tangle of global organizations that has evolved since 1946, and of their struggle to adapt. She argues that the ideals and cooperative purposes the UN stands for retain their resonance, and that powerful governments are now readier, in principle, to turn to it. But they will continue to do so only where, and if, it matches the needs of a new and more active era of multilateral diplomacy. Righter examines every aspect of the UN: the hopes and contradictions built into its Charter, the unreality which has come to permeate what passes for debate there, the legacy of ideological confrontation, and the tides of reforming zeal that, almost since its inception, have washed over it and left almost no trace.

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