The United Nations and Changing World Politics

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

• ISBN13: 9780813399621
• ISBN10: 0813399629
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-21
• 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	p. ix
Foreword to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Foreword to the Third Edition	p. xv
Preface to the Third Edition	p. xix
List of Acronyms	p. xxv
Introduction	p. 1
The Legal Foundations of Sovereignty	p. 4
State Sovereignty	p. 5
Changing Raisons d'Etat	p. 10
The United Nations: Actor or Framework?	p. 12
UN Politics	p. 15
Notes	p. 18
International Peace and Security
The Theory of UN Collective Security	p. 21
Pioneering Cooperation: The Nineteenth Century and the League of Nations	p. 22
Collective Security in General	p. 25
The United Nations and Security: Some Basics	p. 27
Regional Arrangements	p. 38
Straying from the Course	p. 44
Notes	p. 45
The Reality of UN Security Efforts During the Cold War	p. 47
The Early Years: Palestine, Korea, Suez, the Congo	p. 47
Understanding Peacekeeping	p. 53
"Chapter Six and a Half" on Hold, 1978-1988	p. 59
Economic Sanctions	p. 61
Notes	p. 63
UN Security Operations After the Cold War	p. 65
A Changing World: New Goals, New Roles	p. 65
The First UN Military Operations After the End of the Cold War, 1988-1993	p. 66
The Rebirth of Peacekeeping	p. 68
Moving Toward the Next Generation	p. 71
Moving Toward Enforcement	p. 74
Nonforcible Sanctions in the Post-Cold War Era: Humanitarian Dilemmas	p. 78
Operational Quandaries: Cambodia, the Former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti	p. 80
Ever-Evolving Peacekeeping: Kosovo, East Timor, and Sierra Leone	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 103
Notes	p. 106
Groping into the Twenty-first Century	p. 111
Political Dynamics at the End of the 1990s	p. 111
Operational Changes: Adapting to New Conflicts	p. 119
Representational Changes: Adapting the Organization's Structure to the Interstate System	p. 123
Professional Changes: Strengthening the Secretariat	p. 128
Notes	p. 134
Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
The United Nations, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Affairs: The Theory	p. 141
Understanding Rights	p. 143
International Origins	p. 144
Basic Norms in the UN Era	p. 149
Core Norms Beyond the Charter	p. 154
Supplementing the Core	p. 158
Notes	p. 163
The United Nations and Applying Human Rights Standards	p. 165
The Security Council	p. 167
The General Assembly	p. 173
The Office of the Secretary-General	p. 176
The High Commissioner for Human Rights	p. 179
The Human Rights Commission	p. 180
Supplemental Human Rights Bodies	p. 184
Supervising Rights and Development	p. 194
Emergency Assistance	p. 197
Notes	p. 202
Change, the United Nations, and Human Rights	p. 207
Overview of the United Nations and Rights	p. 207
More on Raisons d'Etat	p. 209
State Coalitions	p. 212
Nonstate Actors	p. 214
Theories of Change	p. 217
Notes	p. 224
Building Peace Through Sustainable Development
Development and the United Nations: The First Three Development Decades	p. 227
The Origins of Development Policy in the World Organization	p. 229
Winds of Change	p. 236
The Call for the New International Economic Order	p. 239
Shifting Ground	p. 246
Notes	p. 252
Ecodevelopment and the United Nations	p. 254
UNCHE and Ecodevelopment	p. 255
Institutional Foundations	p. 258
Static Action in a Dynamic Social Environment	p. 262
The Role of Civil Society	p. 265
The Second Wave	p. 269
The Rio Process	p. 270
The Post-Rio Process	p. 276
The Evolving Development Discourse: Issue Linkage and Convergence	p. 276
Getting Beyond Rio: Engendering Effective Cooperation	p. 278
Beyond Sovereignty	p. 281
Notes	p. 286
Sustainable Development and Human Security: Problems and Prospects for the 2000s	p. 289
The UN and Human Security in the Twenty-first Century	p. 293
Notes	p. 307
Conclusion: Learning from Change	p. 308
Articulation of Interests and Aggregation of Interest Groups	p. 313
Rule Making	p. 317
Rule Enforcement	p. 320
Some Final Thoughts	p. 326
Notes	p. 330
The United Nations System	p. 333
For Further Reading	p. 335
Index	p. 343
About the Book and Authors	p. 361
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