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This volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs).

Concise chapters from a diverse mix of established and emerging global scholars offer accessible, in-depth coverage of the history and theories of international organization and global governance and discussions of the full range of state, intergovernmental, and non-state actors.

Concise chapters from a diverse mix of established and emerging global scholars offer accessible, in-depth coverage of the history and theories of international organization and global governance and discussions of the full range of state, intergovernmental, and non-state actors.

This book addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the twenty-first century by exploring today's most pressing and enduring health, social, ecological, economic, and political challenges.

This book addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the twenty-first century by exploring today's most pressing and enduring health, social, ecological, economic, and political challenges.

Presents the human and moving stories of a group of individuals who contributed to the economic and social record of the UN's life and activities. Drawing from interviews, this book presents in their own words the experiences of 73 individuals from around the globe who have spent much of their professional lives engaged in United Nations affairs.

Building on the success of the first edition, this volume offers a revised and updated analysis of the UN, and will be an essential point of reference for all those working on or in the organization.

A revised and updated introduction to the 8th edition of this classic text covers the election of the ninth Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, the burgeoning of "new nationalisms" worldwide, including Trump and Brexit, and the continuing proliferation of such non-state actors as ISIS and those in the "third UN.

Global governance's descent from being viewed as post-Cold War salvation to imprecise and unsuccessful line of thinking is considered in relation to the idea's historical precedents and likely future.

Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. Its purpose is to disrupt the simple association between global governance and the actions and activities of international organizations in the post-Cold War era and to focus instead on a set of questions that probe the intricate and multifaceted manner in which the world is governed. The book moves beyond the ubiquity and imprecision that has plagu...

Building on the success of the first edition, this volume offers a revised and updated analysis of the UN, and will be an essential point of reference for all those working on or in the organization.

Completely revised and updated for the second edition, this textbook continues to offer the most comprehensive resource available for all interested in international organization and global governance. This self-contained resource enables readers to assemble the many pieces of the contemporary global governance puzzle.

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Do we need the United Nations? Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? And where could it be had the UN's member states and staff performed better? These fundamental questions are explored by the leading analyst of UN history and politics, Thomas G. Weiss, in this hard-hitting, authoritative book. While counterfactuals are often dismissed as academic contrivances, they can serve to focus the m...

A counterfactual analysis of the world's largest inter-governmental organisation.

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A book which looks at the coming together of military forces and civilian agencies in dealing with the human suffering resulting from complex emergencies. It examines the cases of Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti and Northern Iraq and develops a framework for measuring the military costs and civilian benefits involved in humanitarian actions.

If you are trying to understand and improve global policy, this is the place to start. Weiss takes the major issues on the global agenda and subjects them to a rigorous five-fold analysis that lets us see where the greatest gaps in the policy process really are. This is great food for thought with lots of suggestions for practical action." Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College and University of Massachusetts Boston "Global Governance is the most ...

A comprehensive laboratory manual containing 39 experiments that parallel the text, including a final group of six experiments on qualitative cation analysis.