What's wrong with the United Nations and how to fix it / (Record no. 981)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | MIUC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20191030124806.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 161005s2016 mau 001 | eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781509507443 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MIUC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | MIUC |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 341.23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 2505 |
| Personal name | Weiss, Thomas G. |
| Fuller form of name | (Thomas George), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1946- |
| 952 ## - Items | |
| Itemnumber | 1288 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | What's wrong with the United Nations and how to fix it / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Thomas G. Weiss. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Third edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge ; |
| -- | Malden : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Polity, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 288 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- <br/>Pt. 1. Diagnosing the ills -- <br/>Ch. 1 Westphalia, alive but not well -- <br/>Ch. 2. North-South theater -- <br/>Ch. 3. The feudal system, or dysfunctional family -- <br/>Ch. 4. Overwhelming bureaucracy and underwhelming leadership --<br/>Pt. 2. Palliatives if not cures -- <br/>Ch. 5. Redefining national interests -- <br/>Ch. 6. Moving beyond the north-south divide -- <br/>Ch. 7. Truly delivering as one -- <br/>Ch. 8. Reinvigorating the international civil service -- <br/>Conclusion: What's next? |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth century's world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today's UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9/11 has led to the "next generation" of multilateral institutions. But what exactly is wrong with the UN that makes it incapable of confronting contemporary global challenges and, more importantly, can we fix it?<br/><br/>In this revised and updated third edition of his popular text, leading scholar of global governance Thomas G. Weiss takes a diagnose-and-cure approach to the world organization's inherent difficulties. In the first half of the book, he considers: the problems of international leadership and decision making in a world of self-interested states; the diplomatic complications caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North and the global South; the structural problems of managing the UN's many overlapping jurisdictions, agencies, and bodies; and the challenges of bureaucracy and leadership. The second half shows how to mitigate these maladies and points the way to a world in which the UN's institutional ills might be "cured". Weiss's remedies are not based on pious hopes of a miracle cure for the UN, but rather on specific and encouraging examples that could be replicated. With considered optimism and in contrast to received wisdom, he contends that substantial change is both plausible and possible. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 2506 |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United Nations |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Marbella International University Centre | Marbella International University Centre | Library | 19/09/2018 | 341.23 WEI wha | 19/09/2018 | 19/09/2018 | Books |