Description
This book describes:
- How autocracy in the US, China and Russia constrains the UN
- Why North-South politics has been a constant feature of intergovernmental debate
- How the UN development system became an extended patronage system
- What the UN learnt from its peacekeeping failures, and how it continues to adapt
- Four areas of needed and feasible reform to restore UN credibility.
This impressive book will be vital to the staff of permanent missions of member governments to the UN, as well as UN secretariat staff. It will also benefit researchers exploring international organizations and the staff of development NGOs, as well as a broader audience of those interested in UN and global politics.
About the Author
Stephen Browne, Founder and co-director, Future United Nations Development System (FUNDS) project, Senior Fellow, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York, US, Visiting lecturer on the UN and global governance, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
Reviews
'Stephen Browne, himself a veteran who toiled in the UN trenches, has written an important account of the struggles within the UN to change and reinvent itself.'
--Lord Mark Malloch Brown, Former UN Deputy Secretary-General
'Stephen Browne has analyzed why the UN is so necessary yet such a relic. ''Reform'' has been under way since the ink dried on the Charter, yet the results are demonstrably inadequate for the problems of the second decade of the twenty-first century. Remarkable for its breadth and depth, this book could not be more timely, a compelling read for practitioners and scholars.'
--Thomas G. Weiss, The CUNY Graduate Center, US
Book Information
ISBN 9781788971683
Author Stephen Browne
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
