The United Nations : an introduction / Sven Bernhard Gareis and Johannes Varwick ; translated by Lindsay P. Cohn.

By: Gareis, Sven [author]
Contributor(s): Varwick, Johannes [author]
Language: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xiv, 284 pages illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1403935394 (cloth); 1403935408 (paper); 9781403935403Uniform titles: Vereinten Nationen. English Subject(s): United NationsDDC classification: 341.23 LOC classification: JZ4984.5 | .G3713 2005Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
The United Nations system. A short history of the United Nations ; The UN charter: purposes and principles ; The principal organs: competencies, functions and decision-making processes ; Programmes, funds and specialized agencies ; Financing of the United Nations system -- Institution-building, regime impact and globalization: the role and function of the UN. Theories of international organizations ; Challenges of globalization ; The primary tasks of the United Nations and the expansion of the concept of security -- The core of the United Nations: collective security. The principle of collective security: limitations and possibilities ; Still a challenge: the exclusion of war from international relations ; From the League of Nations to the United Nations: the organizational evolution of peace-maintenance ; The collective security system of the UN charter -- The changing practice of peacekeeping. The first four decades of peace-maintenance ; Peacekeeping after the Cold War ; Disarmament and arms control in the framework of the United Nations ; Prevention as a task of the United Nations ; The UN and international terrorism ; The UN and the 2003 war against Iraq -- The United Nations and human rights: normative development, codification and definition. Human rights in the UN charter ; The international bill of human rights ; Comprehensive protection of human rights -- Human rights protection: institutional framework and code of practice. Treaty-based bodies ; Human rights protection by UN organs ; Human rights protection: new fundamentals and perspectives -- Economic development and environmental questions in the United Nations: problem areas and institutional design. Responsibilities and fields of action ; The United Nations and multilateral co-operation on development ; Protection of refugees, humanitarian aid and population issues ; Protection of the global environment as an international challenge ; The functions of relevant UN bodies -- Reforms for the twenty-first century. Reform as a long and difficult process ; Institutional reforms ; Reforms in the area of peace-maintenance ; Reforms in the area of international law ; Reforms in the areas of economics, development and the environment -- Conclusions. Multilateralism and global governance: opportunities and limitations of a political concept ; Outlook: the United Nations in the twenty-first century.
Summary: This major new text, highly acclaimed in its original German version, is now available for the first time in English in a substantially revised and updated translation. Provides a systematic introduction to the main areas of activity of the United Nations today.
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Adapted and updated translation of Die Vereinten Nationen (2003).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The United Nations system. A short history of the United Nations ; The UN charter: purposes and principles ; The principal organs: competencies, functions and decision-making processes ; Programmes, funds and specialized agencies ; Financing of the United Nations system --
Institution-building, regime impact and globalization: the role and function of the UN. Theories of international organizations ; Challenges of globalization ; The primary tasks of the United Nations and the expansion of the concept of security --
The core of the United Nations: collective security. The principle of collective security: limitations and possibilities ; Still a challenge: the exclusion of war from international relations ; From the League of Nations to the United Nations: the organizational evolution of peace-maintenance ; The collective security system of the UN charter --
The changing practice of peacekeeping. The first four decades of peace-maintenance ; Peacekeeping after the Cold War ; Disarmament and arms control in the framework of the United Nations ; Prevention as a task of the United Nations ; The UN and international terrorism ; The UN and the 2003 war against Iraq --
The United Nations and human rights: normative development, codification and definition. Human rights in the UN charter ; The international bill of human rights ; Comprehensive protection of human rights --
Human rights protection: institutional framework and code of practice. Treaty-based bodies ; Human rights protection by UN organs ; Human rights protection: new fundamentals and perspectives --
Economic development and environmental questions in the United Nations: problem areas and institutional design. Responsibilities and fields of action ; The United Nations and multilateral co-operation on development ; Protection of refugees, humanitarian aid and population issues ; Protection of the global environment as an international challenge ; The functions of relevant UN bodies --
Reforms for the twenty-first century. Reform as a long and difficult process ; Institutional reforms ; Reforms in the area of peace-maintenance ; Reforms in the area of international law ; Reforms in the areas of economics, development and the environment --
Conclusions. Multilateralism and global governance: opportunities and limitations of a political concept ; Outlook: the United Nations in the twenty-first century.

This major new text, highly acclaimed in its original German version, is now available for the first time in English in a substantially revised and updated translation. Provides a systematic introduction to the main areas of activity of the United Nations today.

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