United Nations Politics

United Nations Politics takes a unique approach that focuses on the politics that is, the persistent and mostly singular emphasis that all member states place on the pursuit of national political, economic, cultural and ideological interests of UN affairs.

Autorentext

Donald J. Puchala is James F. and Maude B. Byrnes Professor of International Studies in the department of political science, University of South Carolina. He is also associate director of The Richard L. Walker Institute of International Studies.

Inhalt

1. The United Nations at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century 2. The Evolution of an Institutional Form 3. The UN Charter and Beyond 4. The United Nations: The Last Bastion of Sovereignty? 5. In Search of Leadership 6. The Politics of Culture 7. Peacekeeping 8. Development and its Discontents 9. Reconsidering the United Nations