The United Nations in the balance challenges to effective crisis response Jassim Buallay

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buallay, Jassim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Crisis management--International cooperation.

Crisis management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Madison, New Jersey] Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2026

Summary:

"Going beyond unimaginative calls for UN Security Council reform and demands for defunding and “detoothing” the UN entirely, veteran diplomat, Jassim Buallay, offers a practical road map for the modernization of the UN System and improvement of its crisis response. Since its inception, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the United Nations System has undertaken both the routine work of global affairs, including legal, political, economic, social, cultural, and judicial work, and the exceptional work of crisis management, including responding to territorial disputes, civil conflicts, famine, natural disasters, global health pandemics, and much more. Increasingly, the crisis response capacity of the United Nations System has been exposed as woefully inadequate, hindered by structural redundancies, bureaucratic inefficiencies, budgetary profligacies, and lack of adequate accountability mechanisms. Drawing upon the extensive knowledge and personal experience of the author working with the United Nations, both from within as an international civil servant and later as a diplomatic representative of his country to the System, Jassim Buallay delves into how UN institutions are organized, mandated, funded, staffed, and managed. Through extensive examination of the history and processes of the United Nations, Buallay explores a middle path for UN reform which emphasizes efficiency and accountability and calls upon all member states to renew their commitment to the UN as the best hope for world peace and sustainable social and economic development"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Establishing the system of the United Nations

The main organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations

Performance of the United Nations economic and social response

Performance of the United Nations crisis response

Financing the United Nations

Reforming the United Nations system

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed July 1, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Buallay, Jassim United Nations in the balance

ISBN:

9781683937241

1683937244

9781683936183

1683936183

9781683937135

1683937139

OCLC:

1597483972

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