Books written by Thomas G. Weiss
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The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations
This Handbook provides in one volume an authoritative and independent treatment of the UN's seventy-year history, written by an international cast of more than 50 distinguished scholars, analysts, and practitioners.
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Rethinking Global Governance
After we assembled the final proposal for this volume in early 2017, we ran the term “global governance” though a ... of global governance that appeared in a 2015 collection entitled Rising Powers, Global Governance and Global Ethics, ...
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From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy, and Humanitarian Crises
The authors of this book--all prominent in the fields of disaster relief, journalism, government policymaking, and academia--show how influential well-informed and well-developed media attention has become in forming policies to resolve ...
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The "Third" United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think
The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the intergovernmental machinery of the First UN (member ...
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Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South
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.
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International Organization and Global Governance
... power that shape patterns of global management by implying that these activities occur independently of states. In contrast, realism insists that states remain the primary actors in international affairs; it is suspicious of claims ...
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International Organization and Global Governance
... Assembly as “Town Meeting of the World” or “Parliament of Man” were flights of fancy. The Charter provisions suggest four roles that it could perform in a world of global governance, if governments broke established habits and seriously ...
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Would the World Be Better Without the UN?
... save the UN system from becoming an anachronism. Three strategies could confront head-on these challenges. They reflect lessons from the previous chapters and would help make the UN more central rather than peripheral to global problem ...
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Sword & Salve: Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises
In the first book to systematically explore the linkages between war and emergency response, Hoffman and Weiss focus on the profound impact of new wars with non-state actors.
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Global Governance: Why? What? Whither?
Thomas G. Weiss replies with a guardedly sanguine "yes". “If you are trying to understand and improve global policy, this is the place to start.
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The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations
This major new handbook provides the definitive and comprehensive analysis of the UN and will be an essential point of reference for all those working on or in the organization.