Product Description: Attempts to explain the United Nation's first 45 years. It sets out the fundamental features of the structure of the United Nations and traces the political developments around such topics as maintaining international peace, protecting human rights and improving economic welfare...read more

Product Description: This text examines the structure, operation and history of the United Nations. It explains the historical roots of the UN system, its legal and organizational structures, and what the organization and its partners do in relation to major global events and issues...read more

This is a sharp insight into the heart of the United Nations. Behind the public face of its Secretary General, Kofi Annan is a core of advisors and officials, this book examines them in close detail. This UN is facing tremendous pressures from today's world and is a crucial part of its future. The office of UN Secretary-General and the Secretariat exercise policy functions that are the closest we have to a central point for responding to global interests. Recent incumbents such as Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan have had a profound political impact on the global stage. This book explains the history, structure, functions and the new challenges faced by the institution in the core of the UN. This book: * gives special attention to policy development by the Secretary General * makes clear the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation * details the solid and substantive work of the UN by avoiding its debating functions. Written by a world authority on the subject, this is the ideal introduction for students of the UN, international organisations and global governance.

Product Description: At the approach of the twenty-first century, the United Nations remains the main hope for world peace. This straightforward analysis by longtime observers and recognized scholars sets out the fundamental features of the structure of the UN and traces the political issues in which it is involved...read more

Product Description: An exploration of the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the international arena, this work examines the full range of NGO relationships and actions. It concludes with a proposal for an alternative division of responsibility and labour between governmental and non-governmental actors...read more

This study explores the role of interorganizational relations and social networks in facilitating - or, conversely, frustrating - co-operation in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It begins with an historical overview of AIDS as it relates to transnational policy processes and a critical review of the limiations of orthodox international relations approaches for describing and explaining such international co-operation. The book goes on to examine crucial aspects of the co-operation process, including politics of agenda-setting: when, how and why did organizational players and individual leaders come to pay serious attention to the AIDS issue at the international level? The evolving structure and process of interorganizational relations are analyzed with particular focus on mapping social networks among transnational actors and identifying associated social roles and positions. In this context, processes of both formal and informal coordination are investigated, as are network mobilization and network sustainability. Finally, the book focuses on leadership in international co-operation and explores the micro and macro foundations of leadership as it relates to the followership.

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Product Description: Where there has been fighting or the threat of fighting since the end of the Second World War, the United Nations has ahnost al­ ways been involved. Frequently that involvement has taken the concrete form of a field commission or a team of observers, made up of nationals of several countries and reporting to the General Assembly or the Security Council...read more