Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He was named 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and 2016 Distinguished IO Scholar by the International Studies Association.Pallavi Roy is a lecturer in International Economics at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London.

• Introduction The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015: past as prelude? 1. Idea-shift: how ideas from the rest are reshaping global order 2. Emerging powers and the creation of the UN: three ships of Theseus 3. The revolt against the West: intervention and sovereignty 4. The South and disarmament at the UN 5. Arab agency and the UN project: the League of Arab States between universality and regionalism 6. Normative human rights cascades, North and South 7. Managing the global commons: common good or common sink? 8. Developing countries and the right to development: a retrospective and prospective African view 9. Economic growth, the UN and the Global South: an unfulfilled promise

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He was named 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and 2016 Distinguished IO Scholar by the International Studies Association.Pallavi Roy is a lecturer in International Economics at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London.

• Introduction The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015: past as prelude? 1. Idea-shift: how ideas from the rest are reshaping global order 2. Emerging powers and the creation of the UN: three ships of Theseus 3. The revolt against the West: intervention and sovereignty 4. The South and disarmament at the UN 5. Arab agency and the UN project: the League of Arab States between universality and regionalism 6. Normative human rights cascades, North and South 7. Managing the global commons: common good or common sink? 8. Developing countries and the right to development: a retrospective and prospective African view 9. Economic growth, the UN and the Global South: an unfulfilled promise

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He was named 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and 2016 Distinguished IO Scholar by the International Studies Association.Pallavi Roy is a lecturer in International Economics at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London.

• Introduction The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015: past as prelude? 1. Idea-shift: how ideas from the rest are reshaping global order 2. Emerging powers and the creation of the UN: three ships of Theseus 3. The revolt against the West: intervention and sovereignty 4. The South and disarmament at the UN 5. Arab agency and the UN project: the League of Arab States between universality and regionalism 6. Normative human rights cascades, North and South 7. Managing the global commons: common good or common sink? 8. Developing countries and the right to development: a retrospective and prospective African view 9. Economic growth, the UN and the Global South: an unfulfilled promise