Adapting the United Nations to a postmodern era : lessons learned / edited by W. Andy Knight.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knight, W. Andy.

Series:

Global issues series (New York, N.Y. : 1999)

Global issues series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 272 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basinstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

This book addresses the central theme of adjusting the United Nations system in light of the broadening definition of security, a perceived shift from modernity to post-modernity, and the contemporary debate about reform, adaptation, and institutional learning in multilateral institutions during transitional periods. The authors in this study focus on the lessons learned from the organization's recent performance in collective security, preventive diplomacy and deployment, and peacekeeping, among other things.

Contents:

Introduction: Adapting the United Nations / W. Andy Knight 1

Part I Conceptualizing Change in the United Nations

1 Requirements of Multilateral Governance for Promoting Human Security in a Postmodern Era / Roger A. Coate, W. Andy Knight, Andrei I. Maximenko 11

2 Learning in the United Nations / W. Andy Knight 28

Part II Adaptations of UN Primary Concepts and Instruments

3 Collective Security: Changing Conceptions and Institutional Adaptation / Edwin M. Smith 41

4 Possibilities for Preventive Diplomacy, Early Warning and Global Monitoring in the Post-Cold War Era; or, the Limits to Global Structural Change / Michael G. Schechter 52

5 The United Nations and Preventive Deployment in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia / Abiodun Williams 65

6 UN Intervention and Peacebuilding in Somalia: Constraints and Possibilities / W. Andy Knight, Kassu Gebremariam 77

7 International Criminal Law Enforcement / Jarat Chopra 95

Part III Cases

8 UN Fact-Finding in a Postmodern World: Potential for Arms Limitation and Confidence-Building / Andrew A. Latham 115

9 The Future Role of the United Nations in Disarmament: Learning from the Iraq Experience / Dorinda G. Dallmeyer 129

10 The Civilian Police Element in UN Peacekeeping: The Case of Haiti / Julian Harston 140

11 The Neutralization of Protracted Conflicts: The Case of UNTAC / Sorpong Peou 150

12 Pivots of Peace: UN Transitional Operations / David R. Black 163

13 The United Nations and NATO's War: The Fallout from Kosovo / Tom Keating 178

14 Improving the Capacity of the United Nations' Human Rights System / Douglas Lee Donoho 191

15 Environmental Security: Finding the Balance / Catherine Tinker 202

16 Changing the Global Trade Structure: From 'Harmonization' to a New 'Interface Principle' / Geoffrey R. Martin 219

Conclusion: Rethinking instead of Tinkering - an Ethical Consensus and General Lessons / W. Andy Knight, Joseph Masciulli 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333801504

OCLC:

45420005