Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century’s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts...
What is wrong with the UN and how can we fix it? Is it possible to retrofit the world body? In this illuminating analysis, Thomas G. Weiss takes a diagnosis and cure approach to the world organization's inherent difficulties.
This work will be essential reading for all students and scholars of the United Nations, International Organizations and Global Governance.
This new edition is fully revised to incorporate recent developments on the international stage, including new peace operations in Mali and the Central African Republic; ongoing UN efforts to manage the crises in Libya, Syria, and Iraq; the ...
Providing a comprehensive and contemporary examination of the United Nations, the authors provide a thematic approach exploring its role in three core issues in international relations: International Peace and Security;...
This new edition is fully revised to incorporate recent developments on the international stage, including new peace operations in Mali and the Central African Republic; ongoing UN efforts to manage the crises in Libya, Syria, and Iraq; the ...
With updates throughout, this newly revised sixth edition serves as the definitive text for courses on the United Nations.
This capstone volume draws upon findings of the other 14 books in the acclaimed United Nations Intellectual History Project Series.
Could more be saved? Drawing on over two decades of research, Thomas G. Weiss answers "yes" and provides a persuasive introduction to the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention in the modern world.
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Robert E. Riggs and Jack C. Plano, The United Nations: International Politics and World Organization, ... and Thomas G. Weiss (eds), Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, forthcoming).
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This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade.
Is humanitarian intervention in crisis? Is the so-called responsibility to protect dead or alive? In this fully revised and expanded third edition of his highly accessible and popular text, Thomas Weiss explores these compelling questions.
Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism?
Could more be saved? Drawing on over two decades of research, Thomas G. Weiss answers "yes" and provides a persuasive introduction to the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention in the modern world.
... Peacebuilding (2013) Fromconcept tocommission 71 by Rob Jenkins (Hunter College,CUNY) HumanRights and Humanitarian Norms, Strategic Framing, and Intervention (2013) Lessons forthe Responsibility toProtect by Melissa Labonte (Fordham ...
The fourth volume of the J. Paul Getty Trust Occasional Papers in Cultural Heritage Policy series is the result of a multi-day discussion on the issue of cultural heritage under siege.
In his customarily hard-hitting analysis, Thomas G. Weiss offers penetrating insights into the complexities and challenges of the contemporary humanitarian marketplace.
Readers may be tempted to jump ahead to an essay by a convinced multilateralist who is not a card-carrying member of the UN fan club. But they are encouraged to find out first what is wrong with the UN and how to fix it.