The New United Nations

A comprehensive guide to the world body's institutions, procedures, policies, specialized agencies, historic personalities, the third edition of The New United Nations highlights new international trends, while also assessing the extraordinary challenges confronting the United Nations at this critical moment in international affairs.

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's 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's 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's 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's efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.

• eResources with supportive materials and documents.

Autorentext

John Allphin Moore, Jr. is a Professor Emeritus of History at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, USA.

Jerry Pubantz is a Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

Zusammenfassung
A comprehensive guide to the world body's institutions, procedures, policies, specialized agencies, historic personalities, the third edition of The New United Nations highlights new international trends, while also assessing the extraordinary challenges confronting the United Nations at this critical moment in international affairs.

Inhalt

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