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Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations

Beschreibung

By contrasting imaginative innovations in thinking and institutional design as well as actual multinational achievements of World War Two with present practice the book suggests future actions that could benefit from the historical experience of wartime cooperation.

Autor

Dan Plesch is Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London. His most recent book is America, Hitler and the UN (2011).　His　follow-on research includes a forthcoming international criminal law article on the UNWCC of 1943-1948. He previously worked for the BBC and CNN, the Royal United Services Institute and was the founding director of the the British American Security Information Council 1986-2000. His other publications include　The Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace, A Case to Answer　(2004) and　Preparing for the First Use of Nuclear Weapons (1987). He is co-director of the Wartime History and the Future United Nations Project. Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York's Graduate Center. He is Past President of the ISA (2009-10). His most recent single-authored books include Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? (2013); Humanitarian Business (2013); What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (2012); and Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (2012). He is co-editor of the Routledge "Global Institutions Series" and co-director of the Wartime History and the Future United Nations Project and of the Future UN Development System Project.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780415712651
• ISBN-10: 0415712653
• Artikelnr.: 39595698