ConUNdrum : the limits of the United Nations and the search for alternatives / edited by Brett D. Schaefer
- Bib ID:
- 4705769
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009
- xxviii, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781442200067
- 9781442200081
- Summary:
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"This book discusses the many weaknesses and failings of the current U.N. system and offers practical solutions for reform. The U.N. experts gathered here discuss the range of issues addressed by the U.N., including peace and security, international law, human rights, economic development, and transnational concerns such as health and the environment. They suggest ways to improve efforts to work within the U.N. framework to address critical international problems and ways to work outside of the U.N. when it proves to be a poor vehicle. In some cases, they propose alternative multilateral efforts to address problems for which the U.N. is uniquely unsuited."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Smart multilateralism : when and when not to rely on the United Nations / Kim R. Holmes
- Making law : the United Nations' role in formulating and enforcing international law / Lee A. Casey and David B. Rivkin Jr
- Mission improbable : international interventions, the United Nations, and the challenge of conflict resolution / Greg Mills and Terence McNamee
- Dysfunction in international environmental policy : how the U.N. undermines effective solutions / Christopher C. Horner
- Human wrongs : why the U.N. is ill equipped to champion human rights / Brett D. Schaefer and Steven Groves
- The quest for happiness : how the U.N.'s advocacy of economic, social, and cultural rights undermines liberty and opportunity / Susan Yoshihara
- The United Nations and development : grand aims, modest results / Terry Miller
- Promoting free trade through the United Nations / Daniella Markheim
- Restoring the role of the nation-state system in arms control and disarmament / Baker Spring
- Curing the international health system / Roger Bate and Karen Porter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- United Nations -- Evaluation
- Other authors/contributors:
- Schaefer, Brett D
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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