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REGIONAL PEACEKEEPERS THE PARADOX

Regional Peacekeepers

The Paradox of Russian Peacekeeping

25 Jul 2003
This publication investigates Russian military presence in its former Soviet territory, to determine whether these forces have been genuinely peacekeeping, or are in fact a post-imperial presence that seeks to maintain former strategic interests. The book includes first hand accounts of the Commo...
REGIONALISM MULTILATERALISM & ECON

Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Economic Integration

The Recent Experience

26 Sep 2003
In the early 1990s, the world witnessed a growth in regional trade agreements unprecedented in history. This publication looks at the characteristics of recent regional agreements and examines the motivation for their creation. It analyzes the effect that the agreements have on multilateral tradi...
GLOBALIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Globalization of Human Rights, The

Series:
United Nations System in the 21st Century, The
26 Nov 2003
The Globalization of Human Rights addresses a set of questions focusing on the justice at the national, regional, and international levels. The examination of these questions is conducted through analysis of rights, both civil and political, and economic and social. Any search for justice is base...
CONFLICT PREVENT PATH TO PEACE

Conflict Prevention

Path to Peace or Grand Illusion?

Series:
Foundations of Peace
26 Feb 2003
This publication evaluates the institutional record on conflict prevention, identifies current trends in conflict prevention practice, and makes recommendations on improving organizational capacity. The first part of the book addresses the question: What is successful conflict prevention? The sec...
BEYOND VIOLENCE CONFLICT

Beyond Violence

Conflict Resolution Process in Northern Ireland

Series:
UNU Policy Perspectives
22 Nov 2002
After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually signed an agreement about how to share power, thus bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed so many lives and caused such human suffering. But what brought the conflict to an end? And what w...
STATES MARKETS & JUST GROWTH

States, Markets and Just Growth

Development in the Twenty-first Century

Series:
United Nations System in the 21st Century, The
4 Apr 2003
This publication examines the common concerns of developing countries seeking just and fair growth and at the same time highlights their special regional needs. It addresses the following topics: the role of the state in promoting growth in the global market; the part played by national developme...
UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

Ad Hoc Missions, Permanent Engagement

8 Mar 2002
This volume explores the evolution of peacekeeping, particularly since the early 1990's. This period was characterized by much initial enthusiasm and hopes for a United Nations that would find a more agreeable international environment for effective and sustained operations to secure peace where ...
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE UN SYSTEM

Global Governance and the United Nations System

5 Apr 2002
This publication offers a wide-ranging analysis of changing world order at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume discuss various aspects of this transformation, extrapolate its trends, and provide suggestions about possible forms of global governance. They add...
FINANCING FOR DEV IN LATIN AMERICA

Financing for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

25 Jan 2002
What is the role and what are the sensitivities and perspectives of Latin America and the Caribbean in regard to financing for development? This publication attempts to provide a comprehensive answer to this question, taking into account the need to prevent external crisis in the future, to reduc...
NINA & ITS IMPACTS FACTS & SPECUL

Niña and Its Impacts, La

Facts and Speculation

23 Aug 2002
La Niña, the result of air-sea interaction, can be described as the appearance of cold surface water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. While people around the globe have become familiar with El Niño and its impacts, its counterpart, La Niña is not as well known. This publicatio...
FROM CIVIL STRIFE TO CIVIL

From Civil Strife to Civil Society

Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States

Series:
Foundations of Peace
12 Sep 2003
In the 1990s the United Nations, the militaries of key member states, and Non-Governmental Organizations became increasingly entangled in the complex affairs of disrupted states. In some situations they delivered humanitarian assistance, while in other cases they acted as agents of political, soc...
ENHANCING GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Enhancing Global Governance

Towards a New Diplomacy

Series:
Foundations of Peace
27 Sep 2002
This publication examines the institutional bases and diplomatic practices that underpin global governance. It analyzes the means by which global governance has been promoted by innovative diplomatic practices, especially issue-specific coalitions among like-minded countries and civil society org...
EAST ASIAN EXPERIENCE IN ENVRONMEN

East Asian Experience in Environmental Governance

Response in a Rapidly Developing Region

16 Jan 2004
The East Asian region has seen considerable growth in its economy, industrial base, and population in the last two decades. Incidentally, all three of these factors are often linked to over-exploitation and degradation of environmental resources. This book provides an overview of governance polic...
TRADE ENVIRO & THE MILLENIUM

Trade, Environment, and the Millennium

31 May 2002
While most trade officials and others who have a direct interest in multilateral trade policy consider the multilateral system to be a major contributor to the enormous growth of world trade and income over the past half century, the World Trade Oragnization (WTO) is viewed with suspicion and eve...
HUMAN DEV & ENVIRO

Human Development and the Environment

Challenges for the United Nations in the New Millennium

Series:
UNU Millennium Series
5 Apr 2002
The new millennium sees humankind living in a vastly more complex, inter-linked, and mutually dependent world. There are increasing numbers of actors in world affairs today, as private and public non-state actors jostle alongside national governments in setting and implementing an ever more crowd...
DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA

Democracy in Latin America

(Re)Constructing Political Society

Series:
Changing Nature of Democracy, The
8 Mar 2002
(Re)democratization in much of Latin America has had to confront a legacy of civil war or political repression, as well as the social dilemmas inherent in the integration of the region into the global market-based economy. This book examines democratic transition and consolidation in post-authori...
GLOBALIZATION & THE SUSTAINABILITY

Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia Pacific Region

25 Jan 2002
In this publication, scholars from around the region analyze the impact of globalization on cities in Asia and the Pacific. This collection of essays forms a useful, comprehensive, and ambitious study, focusing on the region's specific urban concerns and on broader theoretical issues surrounding ...
FINANCING FOR DEV PROPOSALS

Financing for Development

Proposals from Business and Civil Society

Series:
UNU Policy Perspectives
25 Jan 2002
In Financing for Development, twenty-one authors, including business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries, address the question of how to boost the financing of development. Topics covered range from micro credit to large-scale project finance; from gende...
POWER IN TRANSITION THE PEACEFUL

Power in Transition

The Peaceful Change of International Order

16 Nov 2001
This publication helps fill a major gap in the literature on peaceful systemic change. It identifies past cases of peaceful transition and discusses which variables enable major power shifts to occur without war. It also draws lessons on how the international community can best manage the coming ...
RESEARCH VIOLENTLY DIVIDED SOCIETY

Researching Violently Divided Societies

Ethical and Methodological Issues

8 Feb 2002
book, produced as a result of an international collaboration between researchers in Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Northern Ireland and elsewhere has five objectives. The first is to provide a guide to the issues faced by researchers working in violently divided societies. The second is...
ROLE THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

Role of the World Trade Organization in Global Governance, The

23 Feb 2001
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a major player in the field of global governance. Public interest groups are demanding a role in the WTO's processes and for the WTO to undertake major reforms. The central question of this publication is how policy makers should respond to the pressure now f...
MEKONG ENVIRO DEV

Mekong, The

Environment and Development

23 Feb 2001
This informative and critical account of the experience in planning for development of the water resources of the Mekong basin is unique in at least two respects: it describes the Mekong experience; it also provides a concrete demonstration of how international thinking and action on water manage...
LEGITIMACY OF INTL ORGANIZATIONS

Legitimacy of International Organizations, The

25 Jan 2002
The end of the Cold War is only one in a series of events that have radically modified the operational environment of international organizations since their establishment. These changes include: decolonization; growing awareness of the global nature of many economic, environmental and public hea...
ETHICS & INTL AFFAIRS

Ethics and International Affairs

Extent and Limits

29 Jun 2001
This publication explores the extent and limits of contemporary international ethics and examines the ways in which the international community has responded to some of the most crucial challenges of the last ten years. At the center of the book is a discussion of how responsibility is viewed at ...
SUSTAINAB DEV THE GANGES BRAHMA

Sustainable Development of the Ganges Brahmaputra-Meghna Basins

Series:
Water Resources Management and Policy
23 Feb 2001
The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basins contain the largest number of the world's poor in any one region. The population is increasing steadily and unless the current development trends are broken, poverty will become even more pervasive. The region is endowed with considerable natural resources tha...
UN SPONSORED WORLD CONF FOCUS

United Nations-sponsored World Conferences

Focus on Impact and Follow-up

23 Feb 2001
United Nations-sponsored World Conferences fills a gap in the literature on UN Conferences, multilateralism, and global governance. It also seeks to contribute to the on-going international debate on whether such conferences are worthwhile. The publication demonstrates through case studies the ne...
INTER LINKAGES THE KYOTO PROTOCOL

Inter-linkages

The Kyoto Protocol and the International Trade and Investment Regimes

Series:
UNU Policy Perspectives
29 Jun 2001
In 1997, delegates to the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed by consensus to adopt the Kyoto Protocol under which industrialized countries would reduce their combined greenhouse gas emissions by an average 5.2% from thei...
EARTH NEGOTIATIONS: ANALYZING THIR

Earth Negotiations

Analyzing Thirty Years of Environmental Diplomacy

23 Feb 2001
Global environmental problems pose important diplomatic and legal challenges to the international community. The nature of these problems requires an unprecedented degree of international cooperation both in terms of scientific research and the harmonization of regulations that is achieved throug...
NEW MILLENNIUM NEW PERSPECTIVES

New Millennium, New Perspectives

The United Nations, Security, and Governance

Series:
UNU Millennium Series
15 Dec 2000
New Millennium, New Perspectives: The United Nations, Security, and Governance analyzes a number of pressing international challenges relating to security and governance in a policy oriented, forward-looking manner. It addresses a number of important questions such as: the impact of globalization...
WATER MNGMT ISLAM

Water Management in Islam

Series:
Water Resources Management and Policy
23 Feb 2001
In the Middle East and North Africa, water is rapidly becoming the key development issue. The region has one of the highest population growth rates in the world and scarce natural water supplies. This publication presents Islamic perspectives on a number of proposed water-management policies, inc...