Research Catalog

Title

Transforming the United Nations system : designs for a workable world / Joseph E. Schwartzberg.

Author

Schwartzberg, Joseph E.

Publication

Tokyo, Japan ; New York, NY : United Nations University Press, [2013]

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Details

Description

xxxix, 364 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• International organization
• United Nations Management
• Organisation des Nations unies
• Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU
• United Nations Reorganization
• Restructuration de l'entreprise

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Objectives / Ramesh Thakur -- Questions of perspective / Ramesh Thakur -- Organization of the book / Ramesh Thakur -- The growing need for voting reform / Ramesh Thakur -- A realistic basis for weighted voting / Ramesh Thakur -- A weighted voting system / Ramesh Thakur -- A legislative concomitant of the proposed system of weighted voting / Ramesh Thakur -- Benefits of a change to weighted voting / Ramesh Thakur -- Adapting to future changes / Ramesh Thakur -- Stage one: An advisory body with MWPs chosen by national governments / Ramesh Thakur -- Transitional arrangements / Ramesh Thakur -- Stage two: A popularly elected WPA with increasing legislative competence / Ramesh Thakur -- Stage three: Institutionalizing worldwide electoral fields and the one-person-one-vote principle / Ramesh Thakur -- Conclusions / Ramesh Thakur -- Declining representativeness of the present system / Ramesh Thakur -- Additional shortcomings of the present system and of leading reform proposals / Ramesh Thakur -- Universal weighted regional representation / Ramesh Thakur -- Eliminating the veto / Ramesh Thakur -- Summary and conclusions / Ramesh Thakur -- How ECOSOC functions / Ramesh Thakur -- Representativeness of ECOSOC / Ramesh Thakur -- A proposed new structure / Ramesh Thakur -- The role of regional caucuses / Ramesh Thakur -- Summary and conclusions / Ramesh Thakur -- The UN record to date / Ramesh Thakur -- A strengthened Human Rights Council / Ramesh Thakur -- Conclusion / Ramesh Thakur -- The record to date / Ramesh Thakur -- Recommendations / Ramesh Thakur -- Conclusion / Ramesh Thakur -- The expansion of global agencies and funds / Ramesh Thakur -- Rationalization and coordination agencies / Ramesh Thakur -- Devising appropriate weighting formulae / Ramesh Thakur -- Conclusion / Ramesh Thakur -- A review of past practices and reforms / Ramesh Thakur -- Suggested reforms / Ramesh Thakur -- Conclusions / Ramesh Thakur -- Non-governmental organizations / Ramesh Thakur -- Voices for all / Ramesh Thakur -- The private commercial sector / Ramesh Thakur -- Conclusions / Ramesh Thakur -- Budgetary practices / Ramesh Thakur -- Alternative sources of funding / Ramesh Thakur -- A proposed new system / Ramesh Thakur -- Summary and conclusions / Ramesh Thakur -- The pacific settlement of disputes / Ramesh Thakur -- Peacekeeping and peacebuilding: The record to date / Ramesh Thakur -- Attempts at reform of the existing system / Ramesh Thakur -- A standing UN Peace Corps / Ramesh Thakur -- A UN Administrative Reserve Corps / Ramesh Thakur -- A UN Administrative Academy / Ramesh Thakur -- Arms control and disarmament / Ramesh Thakur -- Terrorism / Ramesh Thakur -- Conclusions / Ramesh Thakur -- Economic and environmental sustainability: The record to date / Ramesh Thakur -- The global commons / Ramesh Thakur -- Recommendations / Ramesh Thakur -- Conclusions / Ramesh Thakur -- A new architecture for global governance / Ramesh Thakur -- A plural executive / Ramesh Thakur -- Linkages from global to regional and lower levels / Ramesh Thakur -- Conclusion / Ramesh Thakur -- Improving the domestic climate for change / Ramesh Thakur -- Global education and the promotion of a cosmopolitan ethos / Ramesh Thakur -- Establishing effective civil society networks / Ramesh Thakur -- Effecting catalytic changes in the UN system / Ramesh Thakur -- Forging strategic alliances / Ramesh Thakur -- Conclusion / Ramesh Thakur.

ISBN

• 9789280812305 (pbk.)
• 9280812300 (pbk.)
• 9789280871999 (e-ISBN) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013030110

OCLC

• ocn852220890
• 852220890
• SCSB-5750501

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries