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The United Nations and Changing World Politics.
A comprehensive and contemporary examination of the United Nations, using a thematic approach to explore the UN's role in three core issues in international relations: international peace and security; human rights and humanitarian affairs; and building peace through sustainable development.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Westview Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | 7th ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Tables and Illustrations; Preface; Foreword to the Seventh Edition, Michael W. Doyle; Acronyms; Introduction; The Legal Foundations of Sovereignty; State Sovereignty; Changing Raisons D'Etat; The United Nations: Actor or Institutional Framework?; UN Politics; Notes; PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY; 1. The Theory of UN Collective Security; Collective Security; The United Nations and Security: Some Basics; Regional Arrangements; Straying from the Ideal; Notes; 2. UN Security Efforts During the Cold War; The Early Years: Palestine, Koreo, Suez, the Congo.
- Understanding Peacekeeping""Chapter Six and a Half"" on Hold, 1978-1988; Economic Sanctions; Notes; 3. UN Security Operations After the Cold War, 1988-1998; The First UN Military Operations After the End of the Cold War, 1988-1993; The Rebirth of Peacekeeping; Moving Toward the Next Generation; Moving Toward Enforcement; Nonforcible Sanctions in the Post-Cold War Era: Humanitarian Dilemmas; Operational Quandaries: Cambodia, the Former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti; Conclusion; Notes.
- 4. Evolving Security Operations: Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Libya, and SyriaUsing Military Force for Human Protection Purposes; Implications for the UN's Security Efforts; The Crisis in the Balkans; Turmoil in Timor-Leste (East Timor); Reestablishing Stability in Sierra Leone; Lebanon
- Again; Darfur, Sudan; Cote D'Ivoire; Libya; Syria; Conclusion: Whither the Responsibility to Protect?; Nots; 5. The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century; After September 11, What's New?; Political Challenges; The Challenges of Reform; The 2005 World Summit.
- Strengthening the SecretariatStrengthening the Role of Women; Explaining Change; Notes; PART TWO: HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS; 6. The United Nations, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Affairs; The Theory; Understanding Rights; Basic Norms in the UN Era; Core Norms Beyond the Charter; Supplementing the Core; Notes; 7. The United Nations and Applying Human Rights Standards; Security Council; General Assembly; International Criminal Court; Office of the Secretary-General; High Commissioner for Human Rights; Commission on Human Rights, 1946-2006; Human Rights Council, 2006-Present.
- Supplemental Human Rights BodiesHuman Rights and Development; Emergency Assistance; Notes; 8. Change, the United Nations, and Human Rights; More on Raisons D'Etat; State Coalitions; Nonstate Actors; Theories of Change; Notes; PART THREE: SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; 9. Theories of Development at the United Nations; The Politics of Changing Theories; Notes; 10. Sustainable Development as Process: UN Organizations and Norms; Understanding the Organizational Chart: Coordination, Again; Particular Contributions to Sustainable Development; The World Bank, IMF, and WTO.