Adapting the United Nations to a postmodern era : lessons learned
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Adapting the United Nations to a postmodern era : lessons learned
（Global issues series / general editor, Jim Whitman）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
2nd ed
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
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Originally published: 2001
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume addresses the central theme of adjusting the United Nations system in light of, firstly, the broadening definition of security, secondly, a perceived shift from modernity to post-modernity; and finally, the contemporary debate about reform, adaptation and institutional learning in multilateral institutions during transnational periods. The UN has not been successful in learning appropriate lessons that could facilitate requisite changes to its structure and operations. Thus the authors in this study focus on the lessons learned from the organizations' recent performance in collective security, preventative diplomacy, preventative deployment, peacekeeping, peacemaking, peace maintenance, and international legal, environmental and trade regulation.
Table of Contents
- List of Acronyms Acknowledgements Preface Foreword
- J.Krasno PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING CHANGE IN THE UN Introduction: Adapting the United Nations
- W.A. Knight Requirements of Multilateral Governance for Promoting Human Security in a Postmodern Era
- R.A.Coate, W.A.Knight & A.I.Maximenko Learning in the UN: W.A.Knight PART II: ADAPTATIONS OF UN PRIMARY CONCEPTS AND INSTRUMENTS Collective Security: Changing Conceptions and Institutional Adaptation
- E.M.Smith Possibilities for Preventative Diplomacy, Early Warning and Global Monitoring in the Post Cold War Era, or the Limits to Global Structural Change
- M.G.Schechter The UN and Preventative Deployment in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- A.Williams Intervention and Peace-building in Somalia: Constraints and Possibilities
- W.A.Knight & K.Gebemariam International Criminal Law Enforcement
- J.Chopra PART III: CASES UN Fact-finding in a Postmodern World: Potential for Arms Limitations and Confidence Building
- A.A.Latham Disarming Iraq? United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission and the Future of Multilateralism
- C.Ankersen The Civilian Police Element in UN Peacekeeping: The Case of Haiti
- J.Harston The Neutralization of Protracted Conflicts: The Case of UNTAC
- S.Peou Pivots of Peace: UN Transnational Operations
- D.R.Black The UN and NATO's War: the Fallout from Kosovo
- T.Keating Improving the Capacity of the UN Human Rights System
- D.L.Donoho Environmental Security: Finding the Balance
- C.Tinker Changing the Global Trade Structure: from 'Harmonization' to a new 'Interface Principle'
- G.R.Martin Rethinking Instead of Tinkering: an Ethical Consensus and General Lessons
- W.A.Knight & J.Masciulli Index
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