Guy Fiti Sinclair

To Reform the World

International Organizations and the Making of Modern States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the influence of international organizations since the First World War, and explores how they have acted on behalf of, and at times instead of, states in the international arena. The International Labour Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank are examined in depth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198846147
• ISBN-10: 0198846142
• Artikelnr.: 56723585

Autorenporträt

Dr Guy Fiti Sinclair is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington Law School. His principal area of scholarship and teaching is public international law, with a focus on international organizations law, the history and theory of international law, and law and global governance. He holds first degrees in law and history from the University of Auckland, and a JSD from New York University School of Law, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He is an Associate Director of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law, the Associate Editor of the European Journal of International Law, and a Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters) at Melbourne Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I The International Labour Organization, technical assistance,
and the welfare state 1919-1945
* 1: From standard-setting to technical assistance
* 2: Into development
* Part II The United Nations, peacekeeping, and the postcolonial state
1945-1964
* 3: From collective security to peacekeeping
* 4: Into international executive rule
* Part III The World Bank, governance, and the managerial state
1944-2000
* 5: From reconstruction to development
* 6: Into governance
* Conclusion