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United Nations Reform - Heading North or South? (Paperback)
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United Nations Reform - Heading North or South? (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
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This book examines recent attempts at reform within the United
Nations in the wake of the institutional crisis provoked by the
invasion of Iraq. It contends that efforts at reform have foundered
owing to fundamental and bitter political disagreements between the
nations of the global North and South. Following profound discord
in the Security Council in the lead up to the US-led invasion of
Iraq in 2003, this book considers the ambitious programme of reform
instigated by then serving UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The
author of this highly topical work, Spencer Zifcak, subjects six of
Annan's principal proposals for reform to scrutiny: the reform of
the Security Council, the General Assembly, and the Human Rights
Council, and suggested alterations to international law with
respect to the use of force in international affairs, the
'responsibility to protect', and UN strategies to counter global
terrorism. On the basis of these detailed case-studies, the book
demonstrates why so few proposals for reform were eventually
adopted. It argues that the principal reason for this failure was
that nations of the North and South could not agree as to the
merits of the reforms proposed, exposing the sharply differing
visions held by member states for a future and improved United
Nations. Founded upon extensive interviews with diplomats at the
United Nations, the book provides a rare 'insider' account of UN
politics and practice. It will be of vital interest to students,
scholars and practitioners of International Relations,
International Law, and International Institutions.
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