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Six decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related agencies and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century's world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today's UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9/11 has led to the "next generation" of multilateral institutions. But what exactly is wrong with the UN, and how can we fix it? Is it possible to retrofit the world body? In his succinct and hard-hitting analysis, Thomas G. Weiss takes a diagnose-and-cure approach to the world organization's inherent difficulties. In the first half of the book, he considers: the problems of international leadership and decision making in a world of self-interested states; the diplomatic difficulties caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North and the global South; the structural problems of managing the UN's many overlapping jurisdictions, agencies, and bodies; and the challenges of bureaucracy and leadership. The second half shows how to mitigate these maladies and points the way to a world in which the UN's institutional ills might be "cured." His remedies are not based on pious hopes of a miracle cure for the UN, but rather on specific and encouraging examples that could be replicated. With considered optimism and in contrast to received wisdom, Weiss contends that substantial change in intergovernmental institutions is plausible and possible. The new and expanded second edition of this well-regarded and indispensable book will continue to spark debate amongst students, scholars, and policymakers concerned with international politics, as well as anyone genuinely interested in the future of the United Nations and multilateral cooperation.

Table of Contents:
About the Author viii Foreword by Sir Brian Urquhart x Acknowledgments xiii List of Figures and Tables xvi List of Abbreviations xviii Introduction 1 Part One: Diagnosing the Ills 1 Westphalia, Alive But Not Well 19 2 North South Theater 50 3 The Feudal System, or Dysfunctional Family 73 4 Overwhelming Bureaucracy and Underwhelming Leadership 111 Part Two: Palliatives if Not Cures 5 Redefining National Interests 133 6 Moving Beyond the North South Divide 160 7 Truly Delivering as One 180 8 Reinvigorating the International Civil Service 198 Conclusion: What s Next? 223 Selected Readings 242 Notes 246 Index 279

About the Author :
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor at the City Universityof New York s Graduate Center and Director of the RalphBunche Institute for International Studies.

Review :
"Alas, Thomas Weiss has written a very good book - he makesclear how badly the UN is broken." Economic and Political Weekly "By any standard, this is a work of unusual ambition, scope, andinsight. Only Tom Weiss, one of the UN s most prolific andexperienced observers, could so adroitly capture the worldbody s perils and promise with such a winning combination ofclarity, rigor, and wisdom." Edward C. Luck, Special Adviser to the UNSecretary-General "A comprehensive and extremely thoughtful analysis by theleading scholar of the UN in the United States, this should be onthe required reading list for the US president, and the leaders ofother nations as well." Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College and University ofMassachusetts Boston This is a very timely book, given the broad spectrum ofgrowing difficulties facing the international system and the UnitedNations. It provides an analytically powerful and empirically richaccount of a UN in crisis, followed by a range of sensiblesuggestions to place the world organization on a more sound footingin its address of deepening challenges. It speaks to issues ofprofound scholarly and policy relevance in a way that is eminentlyaccessible to a wide range of readers. S. Neil MacFarlane, St Anne s College, University ofOxford


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780745659831
  • Publisher: Polity Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0745659837
  • Publisher Date: 27 Apr 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 213 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 426 gr


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