ISBN: 9780375501654

"With all its defects, with all the failures that we can check up against it, the UN still represents man's best-organized hope to substitute the conference table for the battlefield."-Dw… Mehr…

"With all its defects, with all the failures that we can check up against it, the UN still represents man's best-organized hope to substitute the conference table for the battlefield."-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 The signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 was an unprecedented development in the history of humankind. For the first time, the world's most powerful sovereign nation states came together to create an autonomous organization designed to, in the Charter's words, "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war and] reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights." Sixty years later, the UN still doggedly pursues that mandate, albeit not without difficulty and certainly not without criticism. In "The Parliament of Man, " the distinguished scholar Paul Kennedy gives a thorough and timely history of the United Nations that explains the institution's roots and functions while also casting an objective eye on the UN's effectiveness as a body and on its prospects for success in meeting the challenges that lie ahead. Building on expertise he gained in drafting official reports for the UN's fiftieth anniversary on how to improve the organization's performance, Kennedy makes sense of the many commissions and committees, and how its six main operating bodies-General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council (UNESCO), Trusteeship Council, Secretariat, and International Court-operate and interact. Citing examples from the UN's history, he shows how the five permanent members of the Security Council-the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, and France-on numerous occasions overcame political antagonisms to spearhead military supervision of aid in humanitarian crises, and how lack of cooperation among the great powers has hamstrung such initiatives as the control of greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbated the deleterious effects of globalization on developing nations' economies. As a body, the UN emerges here for what it is: fallible, human-based, oftentimes dependent on the whims of powerful national governments or the foibles of individual senior UN administrators, but utterly indispensable. In "The Parliament of Man," Kennedy ably proves that "it is difficult to imagine how much more riven and ruinous our world of six billion people would be if there had been no UN social, environmental, and cultural agendas-and no institutions to attempt to put them into practice on the ground." Media >, [PU: Random House]<

2006, ISBN: 0375501657

[EAN: 9780375501654], [SC: 11.45], [PU: Random House], Jacket, New York : Random House, 2006. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 361 pp. English text. Condition : as new. - Scholar Kennedy gives a th… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780375501654], [SC: 11.45], [PU: Random House], Jacket, New York : Random House, 2006. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 361 pp. English text. Condition : as new. - Scholar Kennedy gives a thorough history of the United Nations that explains the institution's roots and functions while also casting an eye on the UN's effectiveness as a body and on its prospects for success in meeting coming challenges. He makes sense of the commissions and committees, and how the six main operating bodies operate and interact. Citing examples from history, he shows how the five permanent members of the Security Council on numerous occasions overcame political antagonisms to spearhead military supervision of aid in humanitarian crises, and how lack of cooperation among the great powers has hamstrung such initiatives as the control of greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbated the deleterious effects of globalization on developing nations' economies. As a body, the UN emerges here for what it is: fallible, human-based, oftentimes dependent on the whims of powerful nations or the foibles of individual senior administrators, but utterly indispensable.--From publisher description. Contents : THE ORIGINS: The troubled advance to a New World Order, 1815-1945 -- THE EVOLUTION OF THE MANY UNs SINCE 1954: The conundrum of the Security Council -- Peacekeeping and warmaking -- Economic agendas, north and south -- The softer face of the UN's mission -- Advancing international human rights -- "We the peoples": democracy, governments and nongovernmental actors -- THE PRESENT AND FUTURE: The promise and peril of the 21st century. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780375501654. Keywords : RECHT, international law, Völkerrecht, Books<

2006, ISBN: 9780375501654

Random House, Hardcover, Auflage: First Edition, 384 Seiten, Publiziert: 2006-06-20T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.68 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2818295, United States, Americas, History, Subje… Mehr…

Random House, Hardcover, Auflage: First Edition, 384 Seiten, Publiziert: 2006-06-20T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.68 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2818295, United States, Americas, History, Subjects, Books, International & World Politics, Politics & Government, Politics & Social Sciences, Random House, 2006<

2006, ISBN: 0375501657

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