Utopia lost : the United Nations and world order
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Utopia lost : the United Nations and world order
Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995
- pbk.
Available at 28 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"A Twentieth Century fund book" -- T.p
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
-
ISBN 9780870783586
Description
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.
- Volume
-
pbk. ISBN 9780870783593
Description
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.
by "Nielsen BookData"