What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix it

  • What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix it
    By Thomas G. Weiss

    ... of the State: The Di¤usion of Power in the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); and Robert C. Cox, The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997).

  • What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It
    By Thomas G. Weiss

    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 complications caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North ...

  • What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It
    By Thomas G. Weiss

    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's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It
    By Thomas G. Weiss

    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's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix it
    By Thomas G. Weiss

    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.

  • What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix it
    By Thomas G. Weiss

    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.

  • What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix it
    By Sir Thomas G. Weiss

    Over a decade into the twenty-first century, the United Nations seems remarkably ill-adapted to the times. ... and its immediate follow-up—captured in a microcosm the US's long-standing love—hate relationship with the United Nations.