The United Nations and Changing World Politics

by Weiss, Thomas G.; Forsythe, David P.; Coate, Roger A.

• ISBN13: 9780813397504
• ISBN10: 0813397502
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-07
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

With updates throughout, this newly revised fifth edition serves as the definitive text for courses dealing with the United Nations.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrations	ix
Foreword to the Second Edition	xiii
Inis L. Claude, Jr.
Foreword to the Third Edition	xv
Leon Gordenker
Preface to the Third Edition	xix
List of Acronyms	xxv
Introduction	1	(3)
The Legal Foundations of Sovereignty	4	(1)
State Sovereignty	5	(5)
Changing Raisons d'Etat	10	(2)
The United Nations: Actor or Framework?	12	(3)
UN Politics	15	(3)
Notes	18	(3)
Part One International Peace and Security
The Theory of UN Collective Security	21	(26)
Pioneering Cooperation: The Nineteenth Century and the League of Nations	22	(3)
Collective Security in General	25	(2)
The United Nations and Security: Some Basics	27	(11)
Regional Arrangements	38	(6)
Straying from the Course	44	(1)
Notes	45	(2)
The Reality of UN Security Efforts During the Cold War	47	(18)
The Early Years: Palestine Korea, Suez, the Congo	47	(6)
Understanding Peacekeeping	53	(6)
``Chapter Six and a Half'' on Hold, 1978-1988	59	(2)
Economic Sanctions	61	(2)
Notes	63	(2)
UN Security Operations After the Cold War	65	(46)
A Changing World: New Goals, New Roles	65	(1)
The First UN Military Operations After the End of the Cold War, 1988-1993	66	(2)
The Rebirth of Peacekeeping	68	(3)
Moving Toward the Next Generation	71	(3)
Moving Toward Enforcement	74	(4)
Nonforcible Sanctions in the Post-Cold War Era: Humanitarian Dilemmas	78	(2)
Operational Quandaries: Cambodia, the Former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda and Haiti	80	(17)
Ever-Evolving Peacekeeping: Kosovo, East Timor, and Sierra Leone	97	(6)
Conclusion	103	(3)
Notes	106	(5)
Groping into the Twenty-first Century	111	(30)
Political Dynamics at the End of the 1990s	111	(8)
Operational Changes: Adapting to New Conflicts	119	(4)
Representational Changes: Adapting the Organization's Structure to the Interstate System	123	(5)
Professional Changes: Strengthening the Secretariat	128	(6)
Notes	134	(7)
Part Two Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
The United Nations, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Affairs: The Theory	141	(24)
Understanding Rights	143	(1)
International Origins	144	(5)
Basic Norms in the UN Era	149	(5)
Core Norms Beyond the Charter	154	(4)
Supplementing the Core	158	(5)
Notes	163	(2)
The United Nations and Applying Human Rights Standards	165	(42)
The Security Council	167	(6)
The General Assembly	173	(3)
The Office of the Secretary-General	176	(3)
The High Commissioner for Human Rights	179	(1)
The Human Rights Commission	180	(4)
Supplemental Human Rights Bodies	184	(10)
Supervising Rights and Development	194	(3)
Emergency Assistance	197	(5)
Notes	202	(5)
Change, the United Nations, and Human Rights	207	(20)
Overview of the United Nations and Rights	207	(2)
More on Raisons d'Etat	209	(3)
State Coalitions	212	(2)
Nonstate Actors	214	(3)
Theories of Change	217	(7)
Notes	224	(3)
Part Three Building Peace Through Sustainable Development
Development and the United Nations: The First Three Development Decades	227	(27)
The Origins of Development Policy in the World Organization	229	(7)
Winds of Change	236	(3)
The Call for the New International Economic Order	239	(7)
Shifting Ground	246	(6)
Notes	252	(2)
Ecodevelopment and the United Nations	254	(35)
UNCHE and Ecodevelopment	255	(3)
Institutional Foundations	258	(4)
Static Action in a Dynamic Social Environment	262	(3)
The Role of Civil Society	265	(4)
The Second Wave	269	(1)
The Rio Process	270	(6)
The Post-Rio Process	276	(1)
The Evolving Development Discourse: Issue Linkage and Convergence	276	(2)
Getting Beyond Rio: Engendering Effective Cooperation	278	(3)
Beyond Sovereignty	281	(5)
Notes	286	(3)
Sustainable Development and Human Security: Problems and Prospects for the 2000s	289	(44)
The UN and Human Security in the Twenty-first Century	293	(14)
Notes	307	(6)
Conclusion: Learning from Change	308	(5)
Articulation of Interests and Aggregation of Interest Groups	313	(4)
Rule Making	317	(3)
Rule Enforcement	320	(6)
Some Final Thoughts	326	(4)
Notes	330	(3)
Appendix: The United Nations System	333	(2)
For Further Reading	335	(8)
Index	343	(18)
About the Book and Authors	361