The United Nations and Changing World Politics - Softcover

Coate, Roger A; Weiss, Thomas G; Forsythe, David P.; Coate, Roger A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813397502 ISBN 13: 9780813397504

Publisher: Westview Press, 2000

Synopsis

In this fresh, thematic text, the authors bring the UN alive from its historical foundations to its expanding role in the post-Cold War arena. Students of all levels will learn what the UN is, how it operates, and what its relationships are with external actors and institutions. Using insights from their practical as well as academic experience with the UN, the authors show how the UN has influenced norms and operations in three key areas--security, human rights, and sustainable development--and provide recommendations for improved UN performance in the future. Well-documented and illustrated, this revised and updated third edition of The United Nations and Changing World Politics is essential to a comprehensive and contemporary understanding of the world's leading intergovernmental organization. The book is divided into three primary themes--international security issues, human rights issues, and development issues. The authors are sympathetic to the UN's mission, and they favor a multilateral approach to addressing regional and international issues and problems. In this new edition, the authors take recent issues such as sustainable development, humanitarian/human rights issues (i.e., women's rights, Kosovo), and security concerns into account.

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About the Author

Thomas G. Weiss is research professor and director of the Global Security Program at Brown University's Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies and associate dean of the faculty. He also serves as the executive director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. David P. Forsythe is professor and chairman in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Roger A. Coate is professor of government and international studies at the University of South Carolina.

From Library Journal

The end of the bipolar world order as embodied in the cessation of the Cold War competition between the United Nations and the former Soviet Union has found the United Nations at a pivotal point in history. The authors, all with academic and practical UN experience, examine how Moscow's new willingness to work more cooperatively within the UN has both changed Washington's posture toward the multilateral institution and made a definite impact on the overall international political climate. Most of the book covers three key issues: international peace and security; human rights and the growing influence of nonstate actors; and sustainable development/ecodevelopment. The authors skillfully analyze the UN's future in its ability to create new organizational mechanisms to deal effectively with the changing nature of conflict, which is steadily shifting from interstate wars to intrastate insurgencies. Appendixes include the UN charter and additional readings. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.
Stephen W. Green, Auraria Lib., Denver
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0813397502
• ISBN 13: 9780813397504
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 370