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Table of Contents
ОглавлениеThe United Nations’ balance sheet
Chapter 1 – Evolving International Organizations: the UN Past and Present
Early international cooperation efforts
A note on the creation of the League of Nations
The League of Nations as an institution
From the League of Nations to the United Nations
Introducing the United Nations
The principal organs of the United Nations
The Security Council
The Economic and Social Council
The International Court of Justice
The Secretary-General
International financial institutions and other international actors
Chapter 2 – Peace and Security: Fixing the Security Council
The Security Council’s functions and activities
Security Council strengths
The Security Council and the future
Chapter 3 – Social and Economic Development
Understanding ‘development’
Development in the early years
A changed world
Partnering in a new era of development cooperation
Streamlining the UN development system and ‘Delivering as One’
Focusing on strengths and priorities
Chapter 4 – Promoting and Protecting Human Rights
Human rights: one of the UN’s great ideas that too many countries fail to respect
The fundamental paradox
International human rights law
The tremendous cost of violations
The United Nations’ Record in Upholding Human Rights
From the Commission on Human Rights to the Human Rights Council
The Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Dealing with the worst violations: the International Criminal Court and ad hoc tribunals
Responsibility to Protect and human security
Migration, refugees and the humanitarian response
Reforms: big and small
Chapter 5 – Workable Global Institutions: How to Get from Here to There?
What we have learnt about understanding world institutions
Reviewing the literature on revamping the UN
Nine popular proposals to transform the UN
1. A more legitimate Security Council
2. A more balanced and focused General Assembly
3. An Economic, Social and Environmental Council
4. A reconfigured Human Rights Council
5. Improved staffing and management practices
6. Autonomous emergency services for the UN
8. Principles and criteria for the Responsibility to Protect
9. The dispersion and control of global power
Sequencing reform proposals: where to start
Four steps for how can we help bring about workable global institutions
