Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Plesch, Dan; Weiss, Thomas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134668809
• Artikelnr.: 42120649

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Margaret Joan Anstee Introduction: Past as Prelude
Multilateralism as a Tactic and Strategy
Dan Plesch & Thomas G. Weiss PART ONE: PLANNING AND PROPAGANDA 1. Prewar and Wartime Postwar Planning: Antecedents to the UN Moment in San Francisco
J. Simon Rofe 2. UN Public Diplomacy: Communicating the Post-National Message
Giles Scott-Smith 3. Educators across Borders: The Council of Allied Ministers of Education
1942-45
Miriam Intrator PART TWO: HUMAN SECURITY
4. A New Paradigm of International Criminal Justice? Reconsidering the 1943-1948 United Nations War Crimes Commission
Dan Plesch 5. UNRRA's Operational Genius and Institutional Design
Eli Karetny & Thomas G. Weiss 6. Towards Universal Relief and Rehabilitation: India
UNRRA
and the New Internationalism
Manu Bhagavan PART THREE: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 7. The United Nations and Development: From the Origins to Current Challenges
John Burley & Stephen Browne 8. Financing Gaps
Competitiveness
and Capabilities: Why Bretton Woods Needs a Radical Rethink
Pallavi Roy 9. Stable Agricultural Markets and World Order: The FAO
and ITO
1943-1949
Ruth Jacherz 10. Conclusion: Past as Prelude
Whither the United Nations?
Dan Plesch & Thomas G. Weiss