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The United Nations in the 21st Century, Sixth Edition, provides a
comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the UN. It explores
the historical, institutional, and theoretical foundations of the
UN as well as major global trends and challenges facing the
organization today, including changing major power dynamics, new
threats to peace and security, the migration and refugee crises,
the COVID-19 pandemic, and the existential challenges of climate
change and sustainability. Thoroughly revised and expanded, it
contains two new chapters on the UN and the environment and on
human security, including issues of health, food security, global
migration, and human trafficking. There is enhanced analysis of
theoretical perspectives on post-colonialism, feminist theory,
constructivism, and non-Western views. New content has also been
added on the UN's budget crisis, public-private partnerships, and
the role of women in the organization. By examining the UN as an
intergovernmental organization facing the broader need for global
cooperation to address economic, social, and environmental
interdependencies alongside the threats posed by rising nationalism
and populism, this popular text is the perfect reference for all
students and practitioners of international organizations, global
governance, and international relations.
The United Nations in the 21st Century, Sixth Edition, provides a
comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the UN. It explores
the historical, institutional, and theoretical foundations of the
UN as well as major global trends and challenges facing the
organization today, including changing major power dynamics, new
threats to peace and security, the migration and refugee crises,
the COVID-19 pandemic, and the existential challenges of climate
change and sustainability. Thoroughly revised and expanded, it
contains two new chapters on the UN and the environment and on
human security, including issues of health, food security, global
migration, and human trafficking. There is enhanced analysis of
theoretical perspectives on post-colonialism, feminist theory,
constructivism, and non-Western views. New content has also been
added on the UN's budget crisis, public-private partnerships, and
the role of women in the organization. By examining the UN as an
intergovernmental organization facing the broader need for global
cooperation to address economic, social, and environmental
interdependencies alongside the threats posed by rising nationalism
and populism, this popular text is the perfect reference for all
students and practitioners of international organizations, global
governance, and international relations.
World politics in the post-Cold War world has become increasingly
institutionalized. However, the role of international organizations
has been overlooked in much of the literature on international
regimes. Now in paperback, The United States and Multilateral
Institutions examines United States policy in areas ranging from
international trade to human rights, and in institutions such as
the International Monetary Fund (IMF), GATT and the World Health
Organization.
The United Nations faced unprecedented opportunities and heightened
expectations when the Cold War ended in 1990. By the time of the
UN's fiftieth anniversary in 1995, the mood had shifted.
Peacekeepers were bogged down in Bosnia and Somalia. Iraq continued
to test the UN's resolve to enforce arms control inspections. In
much of the world, the gap between haves and have-nots was
increasing. Everyone agreed that UN reform was needed, yet the
political will to effect change was absent. With unmet challenges
throughout the world, the limits to UN power and effectiveness were
being realized. From regional conflicts to areas of environmental
degradation and human rights abuses, the UN's success depends more
than ever on the way in which three dilemmas are resolved-the
tensions between sovereignty and the reality of its erosion,
between demands for global governance and the weakness of UN
institutions (as well as the reluctance of states to commit), and
between the need for leadership and the diffusion of power. In this
second edition, the authors have undertaken major revisions along
with thorough updating. They explore the three dilemmas in the
context of the UN's evolving role in world politics, including its
experience in maintaining peace and promoting development,
environmental sustainability, and human rights-the focus of an
entirely new chapter. They also consider the role of various actors
in the UN system, from major powers (especially the United States),
small and middle powers, coalitions, and nongovernmental
organizations to the secretaries-general. The need for
institutional reforms and specific proposals for reform are
examined. Because multilateral diplomacy is now the norm rather
than the exception in world politics, the UN's effectiveness has
been challenged by the new demands of the post-Cold War era. This
completely revised and updated text places the UN at the center of
a set of core dilemmas in world politics and provides a series of
case studies that probe the politics and processes of UN action.
The United Nations faced unprecedented opportunities and heightened
expectations when the Cold War ended in 1990. By the time of the
UN's fiftieth anniversary in 1995, the mood had shifted.
Peacekeepers were bogged down in Bosnia and Somalia. Iraq continued
to test the UN's resolve to enforce arms control inspections. In
much of the world, the gap between haves and have-nots was
increasing. Everyone agreed that UN reform was needed, yet the
political will to effect change was absent. With unmet challenges
throughout the world, the limits to UN power and effectiveness were
being realized. From regional conflicts to areas of environmental
degradation and human rights abuses, the UN's success depends more
than ever on the way in which three dilemmas are resolved-the
tensions between sovereignty and the reality of its erosion,
between demands for global governance and the weakness of UN
institutions (as well as the reluctance of states to commit), and
between the need for leadership and the diffusion of power. In this
second edition, the authors have undertaken major revisions along
with thorough updating. They explore the three dilemmas in the
context of the UN's evolving role in world politics, including its
experience in maintaining peace and promoting development,
environmental sustainability, and human rights-the focus of an
entirely new chapter. They also consider the role of various actors
in the UN system, from major powers (especially the United States),
small and middle powers, coalitions, and nongovernmental
organizations to the secretaries-general. The need for
institutional reforms and specific proposals for reform are
examined. Because multilateral diplomacy is now the norm rather
than the exception in world politics, the UN's effectiveness has
been challenged by the new demands of the post-Cold War era. This
completely revised and updated text places the UN at the center of
a set of core dilemmas in world politics and provides a series of
case studies that probe the politics and processes of UN action.
World politics in the post-Cold War world has become increasingly
institutionalized. However, the role of international organizations
has been overlooked in much of the literature on international
regimes. "The United States and Multilateral Institutions", now
available in paperback, examines the United States' policy in areas
ranging from international trade to human rights, and in
institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Health
Organization. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and
postgraduates in international relations and international
organizations.
The third edition of the award-winning International Organizations
has been thoroughly revised and updated to take into account new
developments and shifting power relations since 2009, as well as
the most current scholarship. As before, the authors provide a
comprehensive, in-depth examination of the full range of
international organizations. New features of the book include
attention to a broader range of theoretical approaches, to the
increasing importance of regional organizations, and to emerging
forms of governance. And new case studies highlight the governance
dilemmas posed by the Libyan and Syrian civil wars, human
trafficking, LGBT rights, climate change, and more.
Childrens human rights are regularly violated around the world.
Child soldiers, child slavery, and child prostitution are some of
the more graphic examples this books deals with, but hungry, sick,
and orphaned children are equally at risk and more prevalent. In
the United States, children suffer similar abuses, but some are
unique to the United States justice system. Unlike most of the rest
of the world, the U.S. is a well-developed western nation in which
juvenile offenders can be tried as adults and subjected to capital
punishment. This book brings together a wide array of original
essays from a variety of academic and practitioner perspectives on
human rights and the status of children. The details are disturbing
the message, powerful We must vigorously extend the universal
declaration of human rights to the most vulnerable humans of
all--the children of the world, starting at home in the United
States.
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