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List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Achieving the unthinkable

The global governance deficit

The United Nations’ balance sheet

Empowering youth

Objectives of the primer

Chapter 1 – Evolving International Organizations: the UN Past and Present

Early international cooperation efforts

The Concert of Europe

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 General Assembly

The Economic and Social Council

Trusteeship Council

The International Court of Justice

The Secretariat

Beyond the organs

The Secretary-General

UN budgets

The UN System

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

Security Council weaknesses

The UN’s peace operations

The Security Council and the future

Chapter 3 – Social and Economic Development

Understanding ‘development’

The first 50 years

Development in the early years

Expanding development efforts

The North-South divide

Millennium Development Goals

Tallying up the results

Sustainable Development Goals

A changed world

More voices at the table

Financing the goals

Looking ahead

Partnering in a new era of development cooperation

Role for private sector

Role for civil society

Innovation and technology

What role for the UN?

Is the UN prepared?

Streamlining the UN development system and ‘Delivering as One’

Improving business practices

Focusing on strengths and priorities

ECOSOC reform

Is reform possible?

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

Contradictory interpretations

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

What next?

Reforms: big and small

Can change happen?

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

7. Financing 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

Bibliography

Index