A Changing United Nations
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A Changing United Nations

Multilateral Evolution and the Quest for Global Governance

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eBook - PDF

A Changing United Nations

Multilateral Evolution and the Quest for Global Governance

About this book

The United Nations is at a critical juncture. It is faced with two distinct choices: to remain a 'decision frozen in time' or to develop a long-term adaptation agenda (and strategy) that would allow it to be a relevant institution of global governance for the twenty-first century. Reform and reflexive institutional adjustments have failed to address underlying problems facing this organization. After fifty-five years of existence it is still considered an inefficient and ineffective world body. Worse yet, its relevance is being questioned. This study offers a critique of existing UN change processes and then shifts focus to considerations of institutional learning strategies that would allow the UN to maintain relevance amidst the evolution of global governance arrangements.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables and Figures
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of Acronyms
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Rationalist and Reflectivist Approaches to Multilateralism and Governance
  10. 2 Multilateral Evolution and UN Change Processes
  11. 3 Developing Institutional Foundations: Learning in the UN
  12. 4 The UN’s Global Agenda and the Reflexive Adaptation Process
  13. 5 The Managed Change Process at the UN
  14. 6 Post-Cold War Multilateralism and the New UN Reform Agenda
  15. 7 Subsidiarity and Global Governance
  16. 8 Conclusions
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index