Description
The third edition of this successful text highlights new international trends toward global governance, nation-building, and human development, while also assessing the extraordinary challenges confronting the United Nations at this critical moment in international affairs, not least being the ubiquity of conflict in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, and the global threats of disease, climate change, and the retreat from multilateralism by the great powers. A comprehensive guide to the world body窶冱 institutions, procedures, policies, specialized agencies, historic personalities, initiatives, and involvement in world affairs, The New United Nations is organized thematically, blending both topical and chronological explanations, making reference to current scholarly terms and theories.
New to this edition:
- Fully updated chapters and a new Introduction, including discussion of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, the world窶冱 response to COVID-19, and the revival of ultranationalism and great-power rivalry.
- New sections on the theory and practice of neoliberalism and populism, the UN窶冱 use of the "Responsibility to Protect" in the Middle East, the Arab Spring, and multifaceted roles in the developing world, especially in Africa.
- Updated analysis of twenty-first-century challenges to collective security, including in Syria and, particularly, in Ukraine.
- Unique special section on the student Model United Nations experience.
- Coverage of the UN窶冱 efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.
- eResources with supportive materials and documents.
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: THE UN SYSTEM
CHAPTER 1 WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
CHAPTER 2 ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF THE UNITED NATIONS
CHAPTER 3 THE EVOLVING UN CHARTER
CHAPTER 4 EVOLVING INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER 5 MAINTENANCE OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
CHAPTER 6 PEACEKEEPING AND NATION-BUILDING
CHAPTER 7 MAKING GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY: PROMOTING CIVIL SOCIETY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND WOMEN
CHAPTER 8 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALTH POLICY
EPILOGUE
CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
INDEX
