United Nations, Divided World: The UN's Roles in International Relations / Edition 2

by Adam Roberts, Benedict Kingsbury

Overview

This extensively revised, updated, and expanded edition takes into account a wide range of events in appraising the role of the United Nations in international relations including: the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet system in eastern Europe in 1989 and the ensuing demise of the Warsaw Pact, the Gulf War in 1990-1, the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the comprehensive or partial settlement of several regional conflicts, growing civil strife in several parts of the world, the rapid expansion of U.N. peacekeeping and election-monitoring activities, and the development of U.N. and other international activities for the protection of the environment. It also discusses new debates, writings, and sources. New chapters by Patricia Birnie, Sally Morphet, Brian Urquhart, and Peter Wilenski, as well as Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali's 1992 report An Agenda for Peace, are also included in this newly revised edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198279266
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/27/1994
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	606
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Oxford University

Duke University School of Law

Table of Contents

Introduction: The UN's Roles in a Divided World: Adam Roberts and Benedict KingsburyThe Historical Development of the UN's Role in International Security: Michael HowardThe UN and International Security after the End of the Cold War: Brian UrquhartThe UN and the National Interests of States: Anthony ParsonsThe Role of the UN Secretary-General: Javier Perez de CuellarThe Good Offices Function of the UN Secretary-General: Thomas M. Franck and Georg NolteUN Peacekeeping and Election-Monitoring: Sally MorphetThe UN and Human Rights: At the End of the Beginning: Tom J. Farer and Felice GaerThe UN and the Problem of Economic Development: Kenneth DadzieThe UN and the Environment: Patricia BirnieThe UN and the Development in International Law: Nagendra SinghThe Historical Development of Efforts to Reform the UN: Maurice BertrandThe Structure of the UN in the Post-Cold War Period: Peter WilenskiAppendices, including: An Agenda for Peace: Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Editorial Reviews

From reviews of the first edition:
"A most distinguished collection of essays."—Law Quarterly Review

"Excellent...succeeds both in its appraisal and in its critical assessment."—International and Comparative Law Quarterly

"I have seen no better up-to-date collection of essays on the UN in the post-Cold War context than this superb volume."—Mark Lagon, Georgetown University

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