Emerging Powers and the UN
What Kind of Development Partnership?
Published on 8. November 2018
190 pages
978-1-317-36620-1 (ISBN)
Description
The post-2015 goals and the changing environment of development cooperation will demand a renewed and strengthened UN development system. In line with their increasing significance as economic powers, a growing number of emerging nations will play an expanded role in the UN development system. These roles will take the form of growing financial contributions to individual organizations, greater weight in governance structures, higher staff representation, a stronger voice in development deliberations, and a greater overall influence on the UN development agenda.
Emerging Powers and the UN explores in depth the relationship of these countries with, and their role in, the future UN development system. Formally, the relationship is through representation as member states (first UN) and UN staff (second UN). However, the importance of the non-public sector interests (third UN) of emerging economies is also growing, through private sponsorship and NGO activities in development. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Emerging Powers and the UN explores in depth the relationship of these countries with, and their role in, the future UN development system. Formally, the relationship is through representation as member states (first UN) and UN staff (second UN). However, the importance of the non-public sector interests (third UN) of emerging economies is also growing, through private sponsorship and NGO activities in development. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
6,81 MB
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978-1-317-36620-1 (9781317366201)
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Persons
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science, and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, at The City University of New York's Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, USA.
Adriana Erthal Abdenur is Professor of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and General Coordinator of the BRICS Policy Center.
Adriana Erthal Abdenur is Professor of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and General Coordinator of the BRICS Policy Center.
Content
Introduction: emerging powers and the UN - what kind of development partnership? Part I - Inequalities And Multilateralism: Revisiting The North-South Axis 1. Assessing the G77: 50 years after UNCTAD and 40 years after the NIEO 2. South-South cooperation and the international development battlefield: between the OECD and the UN 3. How representative are BRICS? Part II - The Changing Development Cooperation Landscape 4. Financing the UN development system and the future of multilateralism 5. Emerging powers at the UN: ducking for cover? 6. A changing world: is the UN development system ready? 7. South-South cooperation and the future of development assistance: mapping actors and options 8. Emerging powers as normative agents: Brazil and China within the UN development system 9. Emerging powers and the UN development system: canvassing global views 10. War-torn countries, natural resources, emerging-power investors and the UN development system
