The United Nations And Changing World Politics

Mar 4, 2004
Paperback
US $40.00
CAN $56.95
UK £19.99
ISBN: 9780813342061
ISBN-10: 0813342066
Published by Westview Press

Description

Providing a comprehensive and contemporary examination of the United Nations, the authors use a thematic approach to explore the UN's role in three core issues in international relations: international peace and security; human rights and humanitarian affairs; and building peace through sustainable development. This new edition is revised substantially to take into account recent events, including the aftermath of September 11th, the War in Iraq, and the beginnings of the international criminal court.

Reviews

"Since its first edition in the mid-1990s, this book has been the standard text on the UN for courses in international organization. No other book can compete with its sophisticated analysis and up-to-date information."
— Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College

"Weiss, Forsythe, and Coate focus on the most important questions of international governance -- security, human rights, and sustainable development -- and provide students with a wealth of information enabling them to make their own informed conclusions about the UN system's contributions to answering them."
— M.J. Peterson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Few stories are as complex, as misunderstood, or as urgent as that of the United Nations. No one tells it better that this dynamic trio. Already a classic, their text offers invaluable insights into how the world tries, fails, and tries again to govern itself."
— Edward Luck , Columbia University

"These civilized voices from the 'other America' have done it again! Taking as their principal themes peace and security, human rights and humanitarian issues, as well as sustainable human development, Weiss, Forsythe and Coate guide us through the intricacies of politics at the UN in the form of an analytical narrative of global problems. This is not only for students and practitioners in the United States, but elsewhere, too, if we are to get an authentic and welcome voice of that 'other America."
— A.J.R. Groom , University of Kent, UK

Selling Territory