The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government is an essential reference series which compiles the most significant journal articles in comparative politics over the past 30 years. It makes readily accessible to teachers, researchers and students, an extensive range of essays which, together, provide an indispensable basis for understanding both the established conceptual terrain and the new ground being broken in the rapidly changing field of comparative political analysis. These two volumes include articles which examine the system, the structure, the function and the future of the United Nations.
Contents: Volume 1: Part 1 Systems and Structures: UN Institutional
Development and Reform: From League of Nations to United nation, Leland M.
Goodrich; Beyond the UN system? Critical perspectives on global governance
and multilateral evolution, W. Andy Knight; The reform of the UN and
cosmopolitan democracy: a critical review, Daniele Archibugi; Reforming the
United Nations, Paul Kennedy and Bruce Russett; Democracy in the United
Nations. For and against, Raino Malnes; Twilight of the UN, Michael Lind;
Saving the UN - a challenge for the next Secretary-General, Jesse Helms; The
limits of international organization: systematic failure in the management of
international relations, Giulio M. Gallarotti. Part 2 UN Financing: Financing
the United Nations: some possible solutions, Erskine Childers; The UN finance
crisis: a history and analysis, Simon Duke; Financing the United Nations,
Muchkund Dubey. Part 3 The UN, States and Non-Governmental Actors: Appraising
the UN at 50: the looming challenge, Richard Falk; The influence of states
and groups of states on and in the Security Council and general Assembly,
Sally Morphet; Pluralising global governance: analytical approaches and
dimensions, Leon Gordenker and Thomas G. Weiss; Non-governmental
organizations in the United Nations system: the emerging role of
international civil society, Dianne Otto;Breaking the realists' cabal:
citizens' rights in the UN, Erskine B. Childers. Part 4 The UN Secretariat
and Secretary General: Resilience and reform: some thoughts on the processes
of change in the United Nations, Antonio Domini; Towards the management
renewal of the United Nations, Michael Gurstein and Josef Klee; The history,
role and organization of the 'cabinet' of the United Nations
Secretary-General, B.G. Ramcharan; The office of the Secretary-General and
the maintenance of international peace and security, Nabil Elaraby; Selecting
the world's CEO: remembering the Secretaries-General, Brian Urquhart; Index.
Contents: Volume II: Part 1 Functions and Futures: The UN, International
Peace and International Order: General: Collective legitimization as a
political function of the United Nations, Inis L. Claude Jr.; The legitimacy
of the collective authority of the Security Council, David D. Caron; The
United Nations, conflict management and spheres of interest, Terry Terriff
and James F. Keeley; International Peacemaking and peacekeeping: the morality
of multilateral measures, Charles W. Kegley Jr.; The limits of UN diplomacy
and the future of conflict mediation, Yasushi Akashi. Peacekeeping: The
evolution of United Nations peacekeeping, Marrack Goulding; The evolution of
United nations peacekeeping, Ruth Wedgwood; UN peacekeeping: recent
developments and current problems, Alan James; Putting the peace back into
peacekeeping: theory must inform practice, A.B. Fetherston; From peacekeeping
to blood-letting: the travails of the UN, Kumar Banerji. Regional
Organizations: Towards a subsidiarity model for peacemaking and preventive
diplomacy: making
Chapter VIII of the UN Charter operational, W. Andy Knight;
Partners in peace? The UN, regional organizations and peacekeeping, Michael
Barnett. Peace Enforcement: International law and the use of, force in the
Gulf, N.D. White and H. McCoubrey; National interest, humanitarianism or CNN:
what triggers UN peace enforcement after the Cold War, Peter Viggo Jakobsen;
Is the Security Council working? 'Desert Storm' critically examined, Amir A.
Majid. Peace Building: Re-inventing governments: the promise and perils of
United Nations peace building, Eva Bertram; UN peace-building and human
rights, Reed Brody. Part 2 The UN, Human Rights and Humanitarian
Intervention: The UN's human rights record: from San Francisco to Vienna and
beyond, Philip Alston; The UN and human rights at 50: an incremental but
incomplete revolution, David P. Forsythe; The role and limit of human rights
NGOs at the United Nations, Rachel Brett; Humanitarian war: military
intervention and human rights, Adam Roberts; Intervention: whither the United
Nations?, Thomas G. Weiss; The United Nations and the protection of the
individual and group rights, W. Ofuatey-Kodjoe; Intervention: Article 2.7
versus Articles 55-56, Sydney D. Bailey. Part 3 The UN, Sustainable
Development and Social and Economic Affairs: United Nations and co-operation
in development, K.P. Saskena; Engaging the world's marginalized and promoting
global change: challenges for the United Nations at 50, Peter Vale; The
international politics of environment and development: the post-UNCED agenda,
Ian H. Rowlands; Index.
Sam Daws, First Officer, Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General in New York, USA and Paul Taylor, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Leland M. Goodrich, W. Andy Knight, Daniele Archibugi, Paul Kennedy, Bruce Russett, Raino Malnes, Jesse Helms, Giulio M. Gallarotti, Erskine Childers, Simon Duke, Muchkund Dubey, Richard Falk, Sally Morphet, Leon Gordenker, Thomas G. Weiss, Dianne Otto, Antonio Domini, Michael Gurstein, Josef Klee, B.G. Ramcharan, Nabil Elaraby, Brian Urquhart, Inis L. Claude Jr., David D. Caron, Terry Terriff, James F. Keeley, Charles W. Kegley Jr., Yasushi Akashi, Marrack Goulding, Alan James, A.B. Fetherston, Kumar Banerji. W. Andy Knight, Michael Barnett. N.D. White, H. McCoubrey, Peter Viggo Jakobsen, Amir A. Majid, Eva Bertram, Reed Brody, Philip Alston, David P. Forsythe, Rachel Brett, Thomas G. Weiss, W. Ofuatey-Kodjoe, Sydney D. Bailey. K.P. Saskena, Peter Vale, Ian H. Rowlands,.
