The Challenging Role of the UN Secretary-General: Making "the Most Impossible Job in the World" Possible - Couverture rigide

Gordenker, Leon; Rivlin, Benjamin

 
9780275944667: The Challenging Role of the UN Secretary-General: Making "the Most Impossible Job in the World" Possible
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0275944662 ISBN 13 : 9780275944667
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1993

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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).

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275944662
ISBN 13 
9780275944667
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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