Overview

This book examines pathways for how to reinvigorate the United Nations, in light of recent crises. The United Nations requires reinvigoration. The organization’s supply of global governance falls short of global demand in areas ranging from health to environment, while intra-state armed conflicts are on the rise again, and full-blown inter-state war has returned to the agenda. At the same time, decision-making mechanisms are deadlocked and their legitimacy is increasingly questioned. But what pathways are there for reinvigorating the United Nations? This book argues for consolidating key principles pertaining to inter-state relations and human rights, for elaborating on the UN system in order to avoid fragmentation and make it possible for it to keep pace with a changing world, and for revisiting UN decision-making structures, so that it can become more inclusive and rebuild trust among stakeholders. The volume embraces a comprehensive approach to studying the organisation, and the authors analyse the institutions comprising the UN system as well as the social context within which actors put these institutions to use. The book contributes to scholarly debates about the United Nations and about how it is embedded in a broader international order currently beset by crises, and, ultimately, aims to show what concrete steps for strengthening the organization might look like. This book will be of much interest to students of international organisations, diplomacy studies, global governance and International Relations in general.

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Author:   Markus Kornprobst (Vienna School of International Studies, Austria) ,  Sławomir Redo
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032707631

ISBN 10:   1032707631
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   23 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Reinvigorating the United Nations Part I: Consolidating the United Nations 1. The Power of Principles 2. Taking International Criminal Justice Seriously 3. Whose Rule of Law and Order? Part II: Elaborating on the United Nations 4. Strengthening the General Assembly 5. Sustainability of Outer Space Activities 6. Strengthening the Human Rights Council and the Treaty Body System 7. Reinvigorating UN Peacekeeping Part III: Transforming the United Nations 8. Potentials and Limits of UN Reform 9. Global Diseases and the Not All that Global Health Governance 10. Linguistic Human Rights for the Promotion of Democracy 11. Overcoming the Global Trust Deficit Part IV: Summary and Recommendations 12. Conclusion

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Markus Kornprobst holds the Chair of Political Science and International Relations at the Vienna School of International Studies, Austria. He is author/editor of several books, including Theorizing World Orders (2021), Understanding International Diplomacy (2e, 2018), Diplomacy and Borderlands (2018), and Co-Managing international Crises (2019). Sławomir Redo is an independent scholar, Visiting Professor of United Nations Law and member of the United Nations Studies Association.

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