The "Third" United Nations How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think

by Carayannis, Tatiana; Weiss, Thomas G.

• ISBN13: 9780198855859
• ISBN10: 0198855850
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-04-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Tatiana Carayannis, Director of the Social Science Research Council's 'Understanding Violent Conflict' program and the 'Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum', ,Thomas G. Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies,

Tatiana Carayannis is director of the Social Science Research Council's Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF) and Understanding Violent Conflict (UVC) program. She also leads the Council's China-Africa Knowledge Project and has a visiting appointment at the London School of Economics and Political Science's Africa Centre and Department of International Development, where she also serves as a Research Director for the Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID). Her publications include of UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice? (with T G Weiss, L Emmerij, & R Jolly, Indiana University Press, 2005).


Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York's Graduate Center; he is also Co-Chair, Cultural Heritage at Risk Project, J. Paul Getty Trust; Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and Eminent Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Korea. His most recent single-authored publications include Would the World Be Better without the UN? (Polity Press, 2018), What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (Polity Press, 2016); and Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (Polity Press, 2016).