Adapting the United Nations to a Post-Modern Era

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Introduction: Adapting the United Nations

   1. Introduction: Adapting the United Nations

      • W. Andy Knight

      Pages 1-7

3. Conceptualizing Change in the United Nations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Requirements of Multilateral Governance for Promoting Human Security in a Postmodern Era

      • Roger A. Coate, W. Andy Knight, Andrei I. Maximenko

      Pages 11-27

   3. Learning in the United Nations

      • W. Andy Knight

      Pages 28-38

4. Adaptations of UN Primary Concepts and Instruments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Collective Security: Changing Conceptions and Institutional Adaptation

      • Edwin M. Smith

      Pages 41-51

   3. Possibilities for Preventive Diplomacy, Early Warning and Global Monitoring in the Post-Cold War Era; or, the Limits to Global Structural Change

      • Michael G. Schechter

      Pages 52-64

   4. The United Nations and Preventive Deployment in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

      • Abiodun Williams

      Pages 65-76

   5. UN Intervention and Peacebuilding in Somalia: Constraints and Possibilities

      • W. Andy Knight, Kassu Gebremariam

      Pages 77-94

   6. International Criminal Law Enforcement

      • Jarat Chopra

      Pages 95-112

5. Cases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. UN Fact-Finding in a Postmodern World: Potential for Arms Limitation and Confidence-Building

      • Andrew A. Latham

      Pages 115-128

   3. The Future Role of the United Nations in Disarmament: Learning from the Iraq Experience

      • Dorinda G. Dallmeyer

      Pages 129-139

   4. The Civilian Police Element in UN Peacekeeping: The Case of Haiti

      • Julian Harston

      Pages 140-149

   5. The Neutralization of Protracted Conflicts: The Case of UNTAC

      • Sorpong Peou

      Pages 150-162

   6. Pivots of Peace: UN Transitional Operations

      • David R. Black

      Pages 163-177

   7. The United Nations and NATO’s War: The Fallout from Kosovo

      • Tom Keating

      Pages 178-190

   8. Improving the Capacity of the United Nations’ Human Rights System

      • Douglas Lee Donoho

      Pages 191-201

   9. Environmental Security: Finding the Balance

      • Catherine Tinker

      Pages 202-218

This volume addresses the central theme of adjusting the United Nations system in light of, firstly, the broadening definition of security, secondly, a perceived shift from modernity to post-modernity; and finally, the contemporary debate about reform, adaptation and institutional learning in multilateral institutions during transnational periods. The UN has not been successful in learning appropriate lessons that could facilitate requisite changes to its structure and operations. Thus the authors in this study focus on the lessons learned from the organizations' recent performance in collective security, preventative diplomacy, preventative deployment, peacekeeping, peacemaking, peace maintenance, and international legal, environmental and trade regulation.

• Cold War
• diplomacy
• Governance
• NATO
• reform
• United Nations

'[A] well-balanced and informed collection of essays on the work and institutional structure of the United Nations. The book is well organized, with a theoretical component exploring institutional change based on the experience of the United Nations in more than five decades since its founding. many of those contributing to the study have been part of the work of the United Nations...[This] combination of insights and theoretical framework provides a thoughtful and important analysis for both the academic and the practitioner.' - Charlotte Ku, Executive Director of the American Society of International Law

'...a valuable source of critique, ideas and recommendations for change in the United Nations system...Its practical focus on the lessons that should be learned from recent United Nations activities makes it required reading for those involved or interested in the organization.' - Linda Reif, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta

• University of Alberta, Canada

  W. Andy Knight

CHRISTOPHER ANKERSEN Security and Defence Forum Fellow, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, USA DAVID BLACK Associate Professor of Political Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada DOUGLAS LEE DONOHO Professor of Law, Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University, Florida JARAT CHOPRA Director, International Relations Programme, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA ROGER A. COATE Professor of International Relations, University of South Carolina, USA KASSU GEBREMARIAM Adjunct Professor, Wayne State University, USA AMBASSADOR JULIAN HARSTON Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina TOM KEATING Professor of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada GEOFFREY MARTIN Lecturer, St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia JOSEPH MASCIULLI Assistant Professor of Political Science, St Thomas University, Canada ANDREI I. MAXIMENKO Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina SORPONG PEOU Associate Professor of Political Science, Sophia University, Tokyo MICHAEL G. SCHECHTER Professor of International Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State University CATHERINE TINKER Lawyer, New York City ABIODUN WILLIAMS Special Assistant to the Representative of the UN Secretary General in Haiti

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