Maintaining Peace and Security?
The United Nations in a Changing World
1st Edition
Published on 20. November 2014
288 pages
978-1-137-03215-7 (ISBN)
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Description
The security concerns of the United Nations today extend far beyond what the writers of the 1945 Charter could have imagined. As a result, the UN has been compelled to reconsider the parameters of what constitutes a threat to international peace and security, and what it means to be safe and secure in the twenty-first century. This text critically assesses the capacity of the UN to evolve in response to changing notions of security, and examines the complex history of people, places and politics that have helped shape this important global actor.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-137-03215-7 (9781137032157)
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Boxes
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword by David M. Malone
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Challenges to the UN security mandate
- An evolving UN: adaptation and reform
- Summing up
- Organization of the book
- 2 Origins and Organization of the United Nations
- The United Nations in historical perspective
- The creation of the United Nations
- The Atlantic Charter to Dumbarton Oaks
- The UN today: the principle organs and their tasks
- 3 Sovereignty and Security during the Cold War
- General Assembly expansion
- Security Council stalemate
- The atomic bomb and the IAEA: the creation and competencies of external agencies
- Korea and uniting for peace: developing veto practices
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Security Council mediation and negotiation
- 4 Sovereignty, Security and Peacekeeping
- Early UN peace operations and the 'invention' of peacekeeping
- 'First Generation' peacekeeping
- 'Second Generation' peacekeeping
- New peacekeeping
- Other UN reforms and evolutions
- 5 Sovereignty and Security in the Age of Intervention
- The situation in Kosovo
- The situation in Iraq
- UN responses to Kosovo and Iraq
- Kosovo and Iraq as benchmarks of new international peace and security
- 6 Reforming the Security Council for Twenty-first-Century Security Security
- High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (HLP)
- HLP Security Council reform and the emergence of the G4
- The G4 candidacies
- The G4 - for better or for worse?
- After the World Summit: Security Council vision and practicality
- 7 Reforming Human Rights and Human Development for Twenty-first-Century Security
- The origins of human security
- Human rights
- Challenges and criticisms - moving beyond the generality of the Universal Declaration
- Development: practice, problems and prospects
- 8 Human Security as State Security
- The Peacebuilding Commission
- The norm of prosecution: the International Criminal Court
- The norm of protection: the responsibility to protect
- 9 Conclusion
- Looking forward
- Bibliography
- Index
