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Weiss, Thomas G.

What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It

Weiss, Thomas G. - What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It, ebook

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Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century’s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today’s UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9/11 has led to the “next generation” of multilateral institutions. But what exactly is wrong with the UN that makes it incapable of confronting contemporary global challenges and, more importantly, can we fix it?

In this revised and updated third edition of his popular text, leading scholar of global governance Thomas G. Weiss takes a diagnose-and-cure approach to the world organization’s inherent difficulties. In the first half of the book, he considers: the problems of international leadership and decision making in a world of self-interested states; the diplomatic complications caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North and the global South; the structural problems of managing the UN’s many overlapping jurisdictions, agencies, and bodies; and the challenges of bureaucracy and leadership. The second half shows how to mitigate these maladies and points the way to a world in which the UN’s institutional ills might be “cured.” Weiss’s remedies are not based on pious hopes of a miracle cure for the UN, but rather on specific and encouraging examples that could be replicated. With considered optimism and in contrast to received wisdom, he contends that substantial change is both plausible and possible.

Keywords: International relations, United Nations, humanitarian intervention, international organizations, international politics, multilateral cooperation, global governance, International Relations

Author(s)
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2016
Language
en
Edition
3
Imprint
Polity
Series
What's Wrong?
Page amount
320 pages
Category
History
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781509507474
Printed ISBN
9781509507443

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