Irrelevant or Indispensable?

The United Nations in the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: Heinbecker, Paul; Goff, Patricia

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Produktbeschreibung

Suffering from a divided membership, the United Nations is at a crossroads, unable to assure human or national security. The UN has been criticized as irrelevant by its most-and least-powerful members alike because it can't reach consensus on how to respond to twenty-first-century challenges of global terrorism, endemic poverty, and crimes against humanity. Secretary General Kofi Annan has proposed a package of sweeping reforms that would safeguard the rule of law, outlaw terrorism, protect the innocent from abusive governments, reduce poverty by half, safeguard human rights, and enlarge the Security Council. Intended to reinvigorate the institution and galvanize its members into action, his proposals are extensive and innovative, courageous and controversial. This volume assembles the perspectives of current practitioners, leading academics, civil society representatives, and UN officials on transforming the secretary general's proposed reforms into action. Their assessments are frank and their views varied, but they do agree on one thing-the United Nations must be made more effective precisely because it is indispensable to the promotion of economic development and collective security in the twenty-first century. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780889204935
• ISBN-10: 0889204934
• Artikelnr.: 24930145

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Irrelevant or Indispensable? The United Nations in the Twenty-first Century
edited by Paul Heinbecker and Patricia Goff
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
1. Introduction Paul Heinbecker and Patricia Goff
From Ideas to Action
2. The United Nations: Adapting to the Twenty-first Century Louise
Fréchette
3. The Millennium Project: From Words to Action Jeffrey Sachs
4. UN Reform and the High-level Panel Report on Threats, Challenges, and
Change Lord David Hannay
5. Implementing the Secretary General's Report, "In Larger Freedom" Bruce
Jones
Freedom from Want
6. The Monterrey Consensus: Developing the Policy Innovations Nitin Desai
7. Ensuring Adequate Resources to Meet the Millennium Development Goals
John W. McArthur
Freedom from Fear
8. WMD and Terrorism: Can the UN Help to Keep the Genie in the Bottle?
Jayantha Dhanapala
9. Legal and Legitimate Use of Force under the UN Charter: A Critical
Analysis of the Report of the High-level Panel Tom Farer
10. Small Arms, Big Killers Keith Krause
Living in Dignity
11. Freedom from Fear: Effective, Efficient, and Equitable Security
Ramesh Thakur
12. The UN Reform Agenda and Human Rights Kenneth Roth
Institutional Innovation
13. The UN Security Council: Reform or Enlarge? Edward C. Luck
14. Working Better Together: Implementing the High-level Panel's
Recommendations on Peacebuilding Shepard Forman
Mobilizing Action
15. Making the Case for Change Lloyd Axworthy
16. Managing the Reform Agenda: A Call for Timely Action Jean Ping
Conclusion
17. The Way Forward Paul Heinbecker
Notes on Contributors
Appendix: Conference Agenda
Contributors' Bios
Lloyd Axworthy is the President of the University of Winnipeg and a Special
Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General to facilitate a peaceful
resolution to the dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Mr. Axworthy has
been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada and a Member of Canadian
Parliament. He has also served as Minister of Employment and Immigration
and Minister of Transport. He has won the CARE International Humanitarian
Award and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the
campaign for the elimination of anti-personnel landmines.
Nitin Desai is Honorary Professor at the Indian Council for Research in
International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India, and Visiting Fellow at
the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of
Economics and Political Science, London, UK. Formerly, he held the position
of Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs at the UN.
Jayantha Dhanapala is a former UN Under-Secretary General for Disarmament
Affairs (1998-2003) and a former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the US
(1995-1997). He is currently a Senior Adviser to the President of Sri Lanka
and Secretary General of the Secretariat for the Co-ordinating of the Peace
Process.
Tom Farer is the Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at
the University of Denver. He is also the former President of the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American
States and of the University of New Mexico. He is an Honorary Professor of
Peking University and permanent Guest Professor of People's University and
Director of the Center for China-United States Cooperation. He has served
as special assistant first to the General Counsel of the Department of
Defense and then to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
Affairs.
Shepard Forman is Director of the Center on International Cooperation at
New York University. Prior to founding the Center, he directed the Human
Rights and Governance and International Affairs programs at the Ford
Foundation. He has served on the faculty at Indiana University, the
University of Chicago and the University of Michigan; conducted field
research in Brazil and East Timor; and authored two books on Brazil and
numerous articles, including papers on humanitarian assistance and
post-conflict reconstruction assistance.
Louise Fréchette is the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations. She
was Canadian Deputy Minister of National Defence from 1995 to 1998 and
Associate Deputy Minister in the Department of Finance. She served as
Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations from 1992 to 1995.
Patricia Goff is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid
Laurier University and Special Research Fellow at the Centre for
International Governance Innovation. She is co-editor with Kevin C. Dunn of
Identity and Global Politics (Palgrave, 2004).
Lord David Hannay is a member of the House of Lords. He sat on the United
Nations High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. He served as
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and
United Kingdom Special Envoy to Cyprus. He has served as Minister at the
British Embassy in Washington, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to
the European Community (EC), Chef de Cabinet for Sir Christopher Soames
(Vice-President of the Commission of the EC), Assistant Under-Secretary of
State (European Community) at the Foreign Office, and first secretary of
the UK negotiating team for entry into the EC.
Paul Heinbecker is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for
International Governance Innovation and Director of the Laurier Centre for
Global Relations, Governance and Policy. He was Canada's Ambassador to the
UN (2000-2003), where he supported the creation of the International
Criminal Court and advocated for compromise on Iraq. Previous positions
include chief foreign policy advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney,
Ambassador to Germany, and Minister in Washington.
Bruce Jones is Deputy to the Special Advisor on Follow-up on the UN
High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. In 2004, he served as
Deputy Research Director for the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges
and Change, in addition to being Deputy Director for the Center on
International Cooperation at New York University. He was previously Chief
of staff in the UN's political mission in the Middle East, and held other
UN assignments in Kosovo and New York. He has written extensively on
peacekeeping and post-conflict operations.
Keith Krause is Professor of International Politics at the Graduate
Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and, since 1999, Director of
its Programme in Strategic and International Security Studies. He is the
founder and Programme Director of the Small Arms Survey project, and has
jointly edited its annual yearbook since 2001.
Edward Luck is the Director of the Center on International Organization of
the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. For 10
years (1984-1994), Dr. Luck served as the President and CEO of the United
Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), America's principal centre for
public education on the world organization, and he subsequently served for
four years as the President Emeritus of the organization (1994-1998). From
December 1995 through July 1997, Dr. Luck played a key role in the United
Nations reform process as a Senior Consultant to the Department of
Administration and Management of the United Nations and as a Staff Director
of the General Assembly's Open-ended High-level Working Group on the
Strengthening of the United Nations System.
John W. McArthur is the Manager of the UN Millennium Project and Associate
Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. With Jeffrey Sachs,
he led the production of the UN Millennium Project's final report,
Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium
Development Goals, which was co-authored by the Project's Task Force
Coordinators and members of the secretariat. He is co-editor, with Michael
Porter, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Peter Cornelius and Klaus Schwab, of the Global
Competitiveness Report 2001-2002.
Jean Ping is the President of the fifty-ninth session of the United Nations
General Assembly. Mr. Ping has held a variety of appointments at the
ministerial level, including Ministre d'État, Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Cooperation and la Francophonie, Minister of Mines, Energy and Water
Resources and deputy minister in the Ministry of Finance, Economy, Budget
and Privatization, and Minister of Planning, Environment and Tourism. He
has received numerous honours, both at home and abroad. He is a member of
the French National Association of Doctors of Economics (ANDESE), he holds
a doctorate in economics from the University of Paris I
(Panthéon-Sorbonne), and he has received honorary doctorates from the
Institute of Diplomacy of China and the Institute of African Studies of the
Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Kenneth Roth is the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, a post he has
held since 1993. The largest US-based international human rights
organization, Human Rights Watch investigates, reports on, and seeks to
curb human rights abuses in some 70 countries. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Roth
served as deputy director of the organization. Previously, he was a federal
prosecutor for the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New
York and the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington.
Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of
Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at
Columbia University. He is Director of the UN Millennium Project and
Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on the
Millennium Development Goals. Sachs is internationally renowned for
advising governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet
Union, Asia and Africa on economic reforms and for his work with
international agencies to promote poverty reduction, disease control, and
debt reduction of poor countries. He was recently named among the 100 most
influential leaders in the world by Time Magazine.
Ramesh Thakur is the Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University
(UNU) and Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations. He was
Professor of International Relations and Director of Asian Studies at the
University of Otago in New Zealand and Professor and Head of the Peace
Research Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra before
joining UNU in 1998. He was a Commissioner on the International Commission
on Intervention and State Sovereignty which published the report The
Responsibility to Protect, and Senior Advisor on Reforms and Principal
Writer of the UN Secretary General's second reform report.