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This short introduction to the United Nations analyzes the organization as itis today, and how it can be transformed to respond to its critics. Combiningessential information about its history and workings with practical proposalsof how it can be strengthened, Trent and Schnurr examine what needs to bedone, and also how we can actually move toward the required reforms. Thisbook is written for a new generation of change-makers — a generation seekingbetter institutions that reflect the realities of the 21st century and that can actcollectively in the interest of all.
Price: $26.00
Pages: 166
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Imprint: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Publication Date:
04 December 2017
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783847407119
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intergovernmental Organizations
A wonderful short book for nonspecialists doing research on the UN. Clear disposition and enlightening questions lead from mere description of the institutions to important proposals for innovations. At the end of the book the nine popular proposals to transform the UN and the four steps for how we can help to bring about workable global institutions are unique in their originality.
Prof. John Trent is a Fellow of the Centre on Governanceat the University of Ottawa, Canada, formerly professorand chair of the University’s Department of PoliticalScience and Secretary General of the International Political Science Association for more than a decade. Laura Schnurr works on social innovation with the J.W. McConnell Foundation, completed an MA in GlobalStudies at the University of Freiburg, and runs a socialenterprise operating in Canada and Uganda.