Leon Gordenker, Benjamin Rivlin

The Challenging Role of the UN Secretary-General (eBook, PDF)

Making The Most Impossible Job in the World Possible

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Produktbeschreibung

How has the role of the United Nations and its Secretary-General changed with the end of the Cold War? With the beginning of a New World Order? These questions are increasingly significant as the threat of nuclear-bloc confrontation is replaced by ethnic tensions and civil conflicts. In this first study of the office of the UN Secretary-General in this new era, Rivlin and Gordenker bring together leading scholars and practitioners to analyze these issues.

The fifteen essays in this volume discuss the new complexity and salience of the role of the UN Secretary-General and its current incumbent, Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Not only is the role analyzed in relationship to a rapidly changing climate of world politics, but it is also examined in relationship to the backgrounds and experiences of the earlier Secretaries-General from Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant, and Kurt Waldheim, to Javier Perez de Cuellar. All those concerned with the UN, international organizations, and international administration will find this volume interesting reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1993
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313388361
• Artikelnr.: 37833808

Autorenporträt

BENJAMIN RIVLIN is Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the City University of New York. He is the author and editor of Ralph Bunche: The Man and His Times (1990), The Contemporary Middle East: Tradition and Innovation (1965), and The United Nations and the Italian Colonies (1950).

LEON GORDENKER is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Princeton University and Senior Research Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations. He is the author of The UN Secretary-General and the Maintenance of International Peace (1967), Refugees in International Politics (1987), and The United Nations in the 1990s (with P. R. Baehr) (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Sir Brian Urquhart Preface The Secretary-General in World
Politics The Changing International Political Climate and the
Secretary-General by Benjamin Rivlin The Secretary-General as an
Independent Political Actor by Alan James Managing, Improving, and Coping
The United Nations Secretary-General as Chief Administrator by James
Sutterlin The Coordinative Function of the United Nations Secretary-General
by Lawrence S. Finkelstein The Secretary-General and His Special
Representatives by Donald J. Puchala The Secretary-General and the U.N.
Budget by Kofi A. Annan Advancing and Maintaining Peace The Role of the
Secretary-General in the Israeli-Arab and the Cyprus Disputes by Nitza
Nachmias The Role of the United Nations Secretary-General in the
Decolonization of Namibia by W. Ofuatey-Kodjoe The Secretary-General in the
Afghanistan Conflict, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Gulf Crisis by Vladimir
Avakov The United Nations in Central America: The Role of the
Secretary-General by Olga Pellicer The Long Term Agenda Economic and Social
Questions in the Years Ahead: Challenges and Opportunities for the
Secretary-General by Jacques Fomerand and Seymour M. Finger The United
Nations Secretary-General and Human Rights: The Question of Leadership in a
Changing Context by David P. Forsythe Purposes and Principles: The
Secretary-General's Role in Human Rights by J. Daniel Livermore and B.G.
Ramcharan The Prospects for the Secretary-General Reflections on the Role
of the United Nations Secretary-General by Inis L. Claude, Jr. The U.N.
Secretary-Generalship: Limits, Potentials, and Leadership by Leon Gordenker
Bibliography Index