A United Nations Renaissance
| Titel: | A United Nations Renaissance |
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| Verfasser: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2017 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource ( pages) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISBN: | 9783847407119 ; 9783847408604 ; 9783847412168 |
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- List of Illustrations
- p. 9
- List of Abbreviations
- p. 11
- Introduction
- p. 13
- Achieving the unthinkable
- p. 13
- The global governance deficit
- p. 15
- The United Nations' balance sheet
- p. 16
- Empowering youth
- p. 19
- Objectives of the primer
- p. 21
- Chapter 1
- Evolving International Organizations: the UN Past and Present
- p. 22
- Early international cooperation efforts
- p. 22
- The Concert of Europe
- p. 23
- A note on the creation of the League of Nations
- p. 26
- The League of Nations as an institution
- p. 27
- From the League of Nations to the United Nations
- p. 32
- Introducing the United Nations
- p. 34
- The principal organs of the United Nations
- p. 35
- The Security Council
- p. 35
- The General Assembly
- p. 38
- The Economic and Social Council
- p. 41
- Trusteeship Council
- p. 43
- The International Court of Justice
- p. 43
- The Secretariat
- p. 45
- Beyond the organs
- p. 46
- The Secretary-General
- p. 46
- UN budgets
- p. 49
- The UN System
- p. 49
- International financial institutions and other international actors
- p. 51
- Chapter 2
- Peace and Security: Fixing the Security Council
- p. 56
- The Security Council's functions and activities
- p. 58
- Security Council strengths
- p. 58
- Security Council weaknesses
- p. 61
- The UN's peace operations
- p. 64
- The Security Council and the future
- p. 67
- Chapter 3
- Social and Economic Development
- p. 71
- Understanding 'development'
- p. 71
- The first 50 years
- p. 71
- Development in the early years
- p. 71
- Expanding development efforts
- p. 73
- The North-South divide
- p. 75
- Millennium Development Goals
- p. 75
- Tallying up the results
- p. 76
- Sustainable Development Goals
- p. 77
- A changed world
- p. 77
- More voices at the table
- p. 79
- Financing the goals
- p. 81
- Looking ahead
- p. 82
- Partnering in a new era of development cooperation
- p. 82
- Role for private sector
- p. 84
- Role for civil society
- p. 85
- Innovation and technology
- p. 88
- What role for the UN?
- p. 90
- Is the UN prepared?
- p. 91
- Streamlining the UN development system and 'Delivering as One'
- p. 92
- Improving business practices
- p. 94
- Focusing on strengths and priorities
- p. 94
- ECOSOC reform
- p. 95
- Is reform possible?
- p. 97
- Chapter 4
- Promoting and Protecting Human Rights
- p. 98
- Human rights: one of the UN's great ideas that too many countries fail to respect
- p. 98
- The fundamental paradox
- p. 98
- International human rights law
- p. 99
- Contradictory interpretations
- p. 101
- The tremendous cost of violations
- p. 102
- The United Nations' Record in Upholding Human Rights
- p. 105
- From the Commission on Human Rights to the Human Rights Council
- p. 106
- The Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- p. 109
- Dealing with the worst violations: the International Criminal Court and ad hoc tribunals
- p. 110
- Responsibility to Protect and human security
- p. 114
- Migration, refugees and the humanitarian response
- p. 116
- What next?
- p. 120
- Reforms: big and small
- p. 120
- Can change happen?
- p. 122
- Chapter 5
- Workable Global Institutions: How to Get from Here to There?
- p. 124
- What we have learnt about understanding world institutions
- p. 124
- Reviewing the literature on revamping the UN
- p. 126
- Nine popular proposals to transform the UN
- p. 130
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- A more legitimate Security Council
- p. 131
- 2
- A more balanced and focused General Assembly
- p. 133
- 3
- An Economic, Social and Environmental Council
- p. 134
- 4
- A reconfigured Human Rights Council
- p. 135
- 5
- Improved staffing and management practices
- p. 136
- 6
- Autonomous emergency services for the UN
- p. 137
- 7
- Financing the UN
- p. 138
- 8
- Principles and criteria for the Responsibility to Protect
- p. 139
- 9
- The dispersion and control of global power
- p. 140
- Sequencing reform proposals: where to start
- p. 143
- Four steps for how can we help bring about workable global institutions
- p. 144
- Bibliography
- p. 153
- Index
- p. 161
