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• VOLUME ONE: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTIONCharter of the United Nations - United NationsThe Development of International Organization in the Nineteenth Century - Inis L. Claude, JrFrom League of Nations to United Nations - Leland M. GoodrichFDR′s Five Policemen: Creating the United Nations - Stephen SchlesingerVictories on the International Front - Dorothy KenyonSome Reflections on Peace in Our Time - Ralph BuncheSpeech to the General Assembly, 11 November 1952 - Vijara Lakshmi PanditThe Commonwealth in the United Nations - Gwendolen M. CarterThe Role of the United Nations in World Affairs - Geoffrey GoodwinSpeech to the UN General Assembly, 6 October 1963 - Haile SelassieApartheid and the United Nations - Ram MalhotraThe Impact of African States on the United Nations - David KayThe United Nations and the International System - Oran R. YoungPromoting Nondiscrimination against Women: The UN Commission on the Status of Women - Margaret E. GaleyKofi Annan Unsettles People, as He Believes UN Should Do - Barbara CrossetteUnited Nations - Madeleine K. AlbrightIn Larger Freedom – The Changing Role of the United Nations - Kofi AnnanThe United Nations - Jeffrey Herbst, Roméo Dallaire, and Peter W. GalbraithDialectics of a Global Constitution: The Struggle over the UN Charter - Michael DoyleThe Enduring Myth of the UN - Natalie SamarasingheNew Histories of the United Nations - Sunil Amrith and Glenda SlugaVOLUME TWO: MACHINERYUN System Organization Chart - United NationsThe Forgotten Design for the System - Erskine Childers and Brian UrquhartInternational Organizations: Then and Now - José E. AlvarezGeneral Assembly - M. J. PetersonRevitalization of the General Assembly - Lydia SwartThe Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions - Michael WoodAssessing the UN Security Council: a Concert Perspective - David BoscoThe Security Council: Behind the Scenes - Linda MelvernDevelopments at the United Nations - Written Evidence Submitted to the UK Iraq Inquiry - Jeremy GreenstockDoes the United Nations Security Council Enhance or Undermine International Law? - Kishore MahbubaniThe Influence of States and Groups of States on and in the Security Council and General Assembly, 1980–94 - Sally MorphetEconomic and Social Council - Gert RosenthalImplementing Rio +20: ECOSOC′s New Role and its Old Culture - Harris GleckmanThe United Nations and Colonial Development - Annette Baker FoxThe Commonwealth and the United Nations Trusteeship of Non-Self-Governing Peoples - L.P. SinghThe Role of the International Court of Justice In the Global Community - Christopher GreenwoodDeparting Thoughts on the International Court of Justice - Rosalyn HigginsPost-Cold War Justice: The UN Ad Hoc Tribunals, Mixed Courts and the ICC - Richard J. Goldstone and Adam M. SmithSecretariat – Independence and Reform - James O. C. JonahThe Office of the Secretary-General and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security - Nabil ElarabyStrategic Planning in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General - Abiodun WilliamsThe Next Secretary-General: How to Fill a Job with No Description - Brian UrquhartBreaking Barriers? Women’s Representation and Leadership at the United Nations - Kirsten HaackNegotiating the UN’s budget: Multilateralism in Action - Hannah DaviesVOLUME THREE: ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPSCollective Legitimization as a Political Function of the United Nations - Inis L. Claude, JrInternational Organization: A State of the Art and Art of the State - Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerard RuggieUnited Nations “Policy”: An Argument with Three Illustrations - Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. WeissSovereignty as Responsibility” to the “Responsibility to Protect" - Francis M. DengSovereignty in the Balance: Claims and Bargains at the UN Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights and Women - Kathryn Hochstetler, Ann Marie Clark and Elisabeth J. FriedmanThe United Nations as a Political System: A Practicing Political Scientist’s Insights into UN Politics - J.J. KirkpatrickFacing 21st Century Threats: Why America Needs the UN - Susan RiceThe Centrality of the United Nations in Russian Foreign Policy - Ritsa PanagiotouMiddle Range Powers in Global Governance - Hongying Wang and Erik FrenchChallenges Facing Small States at the UN - Vanu Gopala MenonHow Goliath Slew David at the United Nations: A South Asian Perspective - Iftekhar Ahmed ChowdhuryThe “Third Force” and the United Nations - Khalid I BabaaThe North-South Divide at the United Nations: Fading at Last? - David M. Malone and Lotta HagmanIslamist Perceptions of the United Nations and its Peacekeeping Missions: Some Preliminary Findings - Brynjar LiaThe Origins and Development of UN Electoral Groups - Sam DawsInformal Groups of States and the UN Security Council - Jochen PrantlUN Elections: Power, Influence, Reputation - Anne AndersonEyes on the Prize: The Quest for Nonpermanent Seats on the UN Security Council - David M. MaloneThe United Nations and Regional Organizations: The Need For Clarification and Cooperation - Tania FelicioThe UN and the African Union’s Security Architecture: Defining an Emerging Partnership? - Kwesi AningNongovernmental Organizations in the United Nations System: The Emerging Role of International Civil Society - Dianne OttoThe Global Compact: Selected Experiences and Reflections - Georg KellVOLUME FOUR: A UN FOR THE 21ST CENTURYSecurity, Solidarity, and Sovereignty: The Grand Themes of UN Reform - Ann-Marie SlaughterHow Not to Reform the United Nations - Ed LuckGrand Goals, Modest Results: The UN in Search of Reform - Jeffrey LaurentiUN Transformation in an Era of Soft Balancing - Stephen John StedmanThe John W. Holmes Lecture: Can the UN Be Reformed? - M. Malloch BrownReforming the United Nations - John Bolton and Richard HolbrookeFundamental UN Reform – A Non-Starter or Not? - Thomas G. WeissReforming the United Nations - Prakash ShahOrganizational Culture, System Evolution and the United Nations of the 21st Century - Alisa ClarkeGreat Expectations: UN Reform and the Role of the Secretary-General - Simon ChestermanManagement Reform in the United Nations: Between Politics and Efficiency - Joachim MüllerSecurity Council Reform: The Dual Risks - Sam DawsMyths of Membership: The Politics of Legitimation in UN Security Council Reform - Ian HurdMore Transparency and More Participation: The Informal Reform of the Working Methods of the UN Security Council - Helmut VolgerReforming the Working Methods of the UN Security Council: the next ACT - Volker LehmannMaking Intervention Work: Improving the UN’s Ability to Act - Morton Abramowitz and Thomas PickeringThe UN Security Council and Human Rights: State Sovereignty and Human Dignity - David P. ForsytheUnited Nations: New Issues, New Ideas, Not Enough Financing - Vikas NathWhy We – Especially the West – Need the UN Development System - Kishore MahbubaniThe Way Forward for the WTO: Reforming the Decision-Making Process - Memory DubeAn Historical Perspective - H.W. SingerThe Vision and the Reality - Mahbub ul HaqThe UN and the Financial Crisis: Breathing Life into Bretton Woods - Natalie SamarasingheFrom Keeping Peace to Building Peace: Proposal for a Revitalized United Nations Trusteeship Council - Saira MohamedFrom UN Commission on Human Rights to UN Human Rights Council: One Step Forwards or Two Steps Sideways? - Nazila Ghanea(Re)generating Peacekeeping Authority: The Brahimi Process - Silke WeinlichThe New United Nations “Gender Architecture”: The Creation of UN Women - Hilary Charlesworth and Christine ChinkinThe UN in Practice - David HannayThe Changing Humanitarian Landscape - Sara PantulianoCan the UN Ever Really Be Neutral? - John HolmesAddress to the General Assembly – 24 September 2013 - Ban Ki-moonVOLUME FIVE: CONFLICT & CRISISThe Evolving Role of the United Nations in International Peace and Security - Marrack GouldingAn Agenda for Peace: Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace-keeping - Boutros Boutros-GhaliWhen Can Nations Go to War? Politics and Change in the UN Security System - Charlotte KuRecommendations of the Secretary-General′s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change: A Member′s Perspective - David HannayA Shared Responsibility for a More Secure World - Ramesh ThakurThe John Holmes Memorial Lecture: What Price Security? - Margaret Joan AnsteeHuman Protection and the 21st Century United Nations - Ban Ki-moonThe UN as Conflict Mediator: First amongst Equals or the Last Resort? - Thant Myint-UThe Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes - Ian BrownlieBuilding Peace through the Political Processes of the United Nations - Courtney B. SmithThe Security Council and the Rule of Law: An Overview - Christine GrayThe Fall of Saddam Hussein: Security Council Mandates and Preemptive Self-Defense - Ruth WedgwoodThe Evolution of Security Council Innovations in Sanctions - Joanna WeschlerUN Peacekeeping: An Overview - Syed Sikander MehdiThe UN′s Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq - James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, Andrew Rathmell, Brett Steele, Richard Teltschik and Anga TimilsinaManaging Mistrust: An Analysis of Cooperation with UN Peacekeeping in Africa - Andrea Ruggeri, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Hans DorussenUnited Nations Police Evolution, Present Capacity and Future Tasks - William J. DurchPeacekeeping Effects in South America: Common Experiences and Divergent Effects on Civil–Military Relations - Arturo Sotomayor VelázquezNot Just a Numbers Game: Increasing Women’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping - Sahana DharmapuriStrengthening the Rights of Women for a Stronger Africa - Zainab Hawa BanguraProtecting Children in Situations of Armed Conflict: Interview with Radhika Coomaraswamy - Radhika CoomaraswamyThe UN at the Peacemaking-Peacebuilding Nexus - Kyle BeardsleyDisarmament: Old Challenges, New Opportunities - Angela KaneRethinking the NPT′s Role in Security: 2010 and Beyond - Rebecca JohnsonVOLUME SIX: RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND PROTECTIONThe UN′s Human Rights Record: From San Francisco to Vienna and Beyond - Philip AlstonThe Question of Domestic Jurisdiction and the Evolution of United Nations Law of Human Rights - Abdulrahim P. VijapurAdvancing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: The Way Forward - Mary RobinsonAn Overview of the Reform of the UN Human Rights Machinery - Françoise HampsonUN Treaty Bodies and the Human Rights Council - Nigel S. Rodley“To See Themselves as Others See Them": The Five Permanent Members of the Security Council and the Human Rights Council′s Universal Periodic Review - Rhona SmithProtection of Human Rights through the Mechanism of UN Special Rapporteurs - Surya P. SubediPerformance and Challenges of the UN Human Rights Council - Theodor RathgeberBeijing, Backlash, and the Future of Women′s Human Rights - Charlotte BunchThe United Nations, Counter Terrorism, and Human Rights: Institutional Adaption and Embedded Ideas - Rosemary Foot’New Aid Modalities’: An Opportunity or Threat to Principled Engagement on Human Rights? - Mac DarrowThe UN as a Human Rights Violator? Some Reflections on the United Nations Changing Human Rights Responsibilities - Frédéric Mégret and Florian HoffmannThe Humanitarian Responsibilities of the United Nations Security Council: Ensuring the Security of the People - Juan SomaviaDeputy Secretary-General’s Press Conference on Rights Up Front - Jan EliassonIntervention - Kofi AnnanHumanitarian Intervention: Getting Past the Reefs - Shashi Tharoor and Sam DawsThe Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time Has Come ... and Gone? - Gareth EvansThe Responsibility to Protect: The First Decade - Edward C. LuckThe Relationship Between the ICC and the UN Security Council - Louise ArbourInternational Justice and Diplomacy - Fatou BensoudaTransitional Justice in the Arab Countries: Opportunities and Challenges - Mona RishmawiVOLUME SEVEN: POVERTY & DEVELOPMENTMillennium Development Goals: Milestones on a Long Road - Margaret AnsteeInternational Norm Dynamics and the "End of Poverty": Understanding the Millennium Development Goals - Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and David HulmeGlobal Goals – The UN Experience - Richard JollyMillennium Development Goal of Halving Poverty in Asia: Progress, Prospects and Priorities - Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai and Mani Arul NandhiUN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice - Dharam GhaiThe World Health Organization and Global Smallpox Eradication - S. BhattacharyaSeven Challenges in International Development Assistance for Health and Ways Forward - Devi SridharThe Road Not Taken: International Aid′s Choice of Copenhagen over Beijing - Rosalind EybenGender Justice: The World Bank’s New Approach to the Poor? - Susanne Schech and Sanjugta VasThe Imposition of a Global Development Architecture: The Example of Microcredit - Heloise WeberDevelopment Economics in the Wake of the Washington Consensus: From Smith to Smithereens? - Matthew M. TaylorAfrica Does Not Need Aid, but the Opportunity for Fair Trade - Inwani MalweyiLife after Bali: Renewing the World Trade Negotiating Agenda - Suparna KarmakarReimagining the Role of the Private Sector in Development - Homi KharasPower Shift: Do We Need Better Global Economic Institutions? - Ngaire WoodsInternational Humanitarian Crises: Two Decades before and Two Decades Beyond - Randolph KentThe Helmet and the Hoe: Linkages between United Nations Development Assistance and Conflict Management - Michèle GriffinExtract from Reforming Development Cooperation at the United Nations: An Analysis of Policy Position and Actions of Key States on Reform Options - Silke WeinlichDevelopment and the United Nations: Achievements and Challenges for the Future - Lorna Gold and Eileen ConnollyConflict & Poverty: A Vicious Cycle - Abiodun WilliamsA Matter of Justice: Securing Human Rights in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda - Centre for Economic and Social RightsGender – Is One Goal Enough? - Sylvia ChantSexual and Reproductive Rights at the United Nations: Frustration or Fulfillment? - Alice M. Miller and Mindy J. RosemanThe Politics of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Is Global Partnership Really Working? - Charles Mutasa"A New Global Partnership”: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development – Executive Summary - United Nations A Just and Sustainable World - Amina J. MohammedVOLUME EIGHT: ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITYResolution XXIII: Problems of the Human Environment - General Assembly of the United NationsThe Stockholm Conference: Where Science and Politics Meet - Maurice F. StrongOur Common Future Revisited - Gro Harlem BrundtlandThe Role of International Forums in the Advancement of Sustainable Development - Marie-Claire Cordonier SeggerFrom Stockholm to New York, via Rio and Johannesburg: Has the Environment Lost Its Way on the Global Agenda? - Paolo GalizziThe United Nations and Global Energy Governance: Past Challenges, Future Choices - Sylvia I. Karlsson-VinkhuyzenImplications for UNEP - Mark Halle, Adil Najam and Christopher BeatonThe Green Economy Post Rio+20 - Edward B. BarbierThe Durban Platform for Enhanced Action and the Future of the Climate Regime - Lavanya RajamaniIs a Global Agreement the Only Way to Tackle Climate Change? - Achim Steiner and David KingCan Climate Change Negotiations Succeed? - Jon Hovi, Tora Skodvin and Stine AakreEmerging Powers, North-South Relations and Global Climate Politics - Andrew Hurrell and Sandeep SenguptaThe Rise of BASIC in UN Climate Change Negotiations - Xinran QiThe EU’s Role in Climate Change Negotiations: From Leader to ‘Leadiator’ - Karin Bäckstrand and Ole ElgströmManaging Climate Change: The Africa Group in Multilateral Environmental Negotiations - Anesu MakinaThe Rio+20 Conference and International Law: Towards a Multi-Layered Multilateralism? - Fabiano de Andrade CorreaInternational Environmental Governance Reform within the United Nations: Seeking More Sustainability Towards and Beyond Rio + 20 Earth Environment Summit - Sylvestre-José-Tidiane MangaInstitutional Design and UNEP Reform: Historical Insights on Form, Function and Financing - Maria IvanovaHow to Build Sustainable Development Goals: Integrating Human Development and Environmental Sustainability in a New Global Agenda - Claire Melamed and Paul LaddSustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries - Johan Rockström, Jeffrey Sachs, Marcus C. Öhman and Guido Schmidt-TraubThe UN Environment Programme on Climate Change and International Security - United NationsClimate Justice: Challenge and Opportunity - Mary Robinson

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• VOLUME ONE: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTIONCharter of the United Nations - United NationsThe Development of International Organization in the Nineteenth Century - Inis L. Claude, JrFrom League of Nations to United Nations - Leland M. GoodrichFDR′s Five Policemen: Creating the United Nations - Stephen SchlesingerVictories on the International Front - Dorothy KenyonSome Reflections on Peace in Our Time - Ralph BuncheSpeech to the General Assembly, 11 November 1952 - Vijara Lakshmi PanditThe Commonwealth in the United Nations - Gwendolen M. CarterThe Role of the United Nations in World Affairs - Geoffrey GoodwinSpeech to the UN General Assembly, 6 October 1963 - Haile SelassieApartheid and the United Nations - Ram MalhotraThe Impact of African States on the United Nations - David KayThe United Nations and the International System - Oran R. YoungPromoting Nondiscrimination against Women: The UN Commission on the Status of Women - Margaret E. GaleyKofi Annan Unsettles People, as He Believes UN Should Do - Barbara CrossetteUnited Nations - Madeleine K. AlbrightIn Larger Freedom – The Changing Role of the United Nations - Kofi AnnanThe United Nations - Jeffrey Herbst, Roméo Dallaire, and Peter W. GalbraithDialectics of a Global Constitution: The Struggle over the UN Charter - Michael DoyleThe Enduring Myth of the UN - Natalie SamarasingheNew Histories of the United Nations - Sunil Amrith and Glenda SlugaVOLUME TWO: MACHINERYUN System Organization Chart - United NationsThe Forgotten Design for the System - Erskine Childers and Brian UrquhartInternational Organizations: Then and Now - José E. AlvarezGeneral Assembly - M. J. PetersonRevitalization of the General Assembly - Lydia SwartThe Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions - Michael WoodAssessing the UN Security Council: a Concert Perspective - David BoscoThe Security Council: Behind the Scenes - Linda MelvernDevelopments at the United Nations - Written Evidence Submitted to the UK Iraq Inquiry - Jeremy GreenstockDoes the United Nations Security Council Enhance or Undermine International Law? - Kishore MahbubaniThe Influence of States and Groups of States on and in the Security Council and General Assembly, 1980–94 - Sally MorphetEconomic and Social Council - Gert RosenthalImplementing Rio +20: ECOSOC′s New Role and its Old Culture - Harris GleckmanThe United Nations and Colonial Development - Annette Baker FoxThe Commonwealth and the United Nations Trusteeship of Non-Self-Governing Peoples - L.P. SinghThe Role of the International Court of Justice In the Global Community - Christopher GreenwoodDeparting Thoughts on the International Court of Justice - Rosalyn HigginsPost-Cold War Justice: The UN Ad Hoc Tribunals, Mixed Courts and the ICC - Richard J. Goldstone and Adam M. SmithSecretariat – Independence and Reform - James O. C. JonahThe Office of the Secretary-General and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security - Nabil ElarabyStrategic Planning in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General - Abiodun WilliamsThe Next Secretary-General: How to Fill a Job with No Description - Brian UrquhartBreaking Barriers? Women’s Representation and Leadership at the United Nations - Kirsten HaackNegotiating the UN’s budget: Multilateralism in Action - Hannah DaviesVOLUME THREE: ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPSCollective Legitimization as a Political Function of the United Nations - Inis L. Claude, JrInternational Organization: A State of the Art and Art of the State - Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerard RuggieUnited Nations “Policy”: An Argument with Three Illustrations - Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. WeissSovereignty as Responsibility” to the “Responsibility to Protect" - Francis M. DengSovereignty in the Balance: Claims and Bargains at the UN Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights and Women - Kathryn Hochstetler, Ann Marie Clark and Elisabeth J. FriedmanThe United Nations as a Political System: A Practicing Political Scientist’s Insights into UN Politics - J.J. KirkpatrickFacing 21st Century Threats: Why America Needs the UN - Susan RiceThe Centrality of the United Nations in Russian Foreign Policy - Ritsa PanagiotouMiddle Range Powers in Global Governance - Hongying Wang and Erik FrenchChallenges Facing Small States at the UN - Vanu Gopala MenonHow Goliath Slew David at the United Nations: A South Asian Perspective - Iftekhar Ahmed ChowdhuryThe “Third Force” and the United Nations - Khalid I BabaaThe North-South Divide at the United Nations: Fading at Last? - David M. Malone and Lotta HagmanIslamist Perceptions of the United Nations and its Peacekeeping Missions: Some Preliminary Findings - Brynjar LiaThe Origins and Development of UN Electoral Groups - Sam DawsInformal Groups of States and the UN Security Council - Jochen PrantlUN Elections: Power, Influence, Reputation - Anne AndersonEyes on the Prize: The Quest for Nonpermanent Seats on the UN Security Council - David M. MaloneThe United Nations and Regional Organizations: The Need For Clarification and Cooperation - Tania FelicioThe UN and the African Union’s Security Architecture: Defining an Emerging Partnership? - Kwesi AningNongovernmental Organizations in the United Nations System: The Emerging Role of International Civil Society - Dianne OttoThe Global Compact: Selected Experiences and Reflections - Georg KellVOLUME FOUR: A UN FOR THE 21ST CENTURYSecurity, Solidarity, and Sovereignty: The Grand Themes of UN Reform - Ann-Marie SlaughterHow Not to Reform the United Nations - Ed LuckGrand Goals, Modest Results: The UN in Search of Reform - Jeffrey LaurentiUN Transformation in an Era of Soft Balancing - Stephen John StedmanThe John W. Holmes Lecture: Can the UN Be Reformed? - M. Malloch BrownReforming the United Nations - John Bolton and Richard HolbrookeFundamental UN Reform – A Non-Starter or Not? - Thomas G. WeissReforming the United Nations - Prakash ShahOrganizational Culture, System Evolution and the United Nations of the 21st Century - Alisa ClarkeGreat Expectations: UN Reform and the Role of the Secretary-General - Simon ChestermanManagement Reform in the United Nations: Between Politics and Efficiency - Joachim MüllerSecurity Council Reform: The Dual Risks - Sam DawsMyths of Membership: The Politics of Legitimation in UN Security Council Reform - Ian HurdMore Transparency and More Participation: The Informal Reform of the Working Methods of the UN Security Council - Helmut VolgerReforming the Working Methods of the UN Security Council: the next ACT - Volker LehmannMaking Intervention Work: Improving the UN’s Ability to Act - Morton Abramowitz and Thomas PickeringThe UN Security Council and Human Rights: State Sovereignty and Human Dignity - David P. ForsytheUnited Nations: New Issues, New Ideas, Not Enough Financing - Vikas NathWhy We – Especially the West – Need the UN Development System - Kishore MahbubaniThe Way Forward for the WTO: Reforming the Decision-Making Process - Memory DubeAn Historical Perspective - H.W. SingerThe Vision and the Reality - Mahbub ul HaqThe UN and the Financial Crisis: Breathing Life into Bretton Woods - Natalie SamarasingheFrom Keeping Peace to Building Peace: Proposal for a Revitalized United Nations Trusteeship Council - Saira MohamedFrom UN Commission on Human Rights to UN Human Rights Council: One Step Forwards or Two Steps Sideways? - Nazila Ghanea(Re)generating Peacekeeping Authority: The Brahimi Process - Silke WeinlichThe New United Nations “Gender Architecture”: The Creation of UN Women - Hilary Charlesworth and Christine ChinkinThe UN in Practice - David HannayThe Changing Humanitarian Landscape - Sara PantulianoCan the UN Ever Really Be Neutral? - John HolmesAddress to the General Assembly – 24 September 2013 - Ban Ki-moonVOLUME FIVE: CONFLICT & CRISISThe Evolving Role of the United Nations in International Peace and Security - Marrack GouldingAn Agenda for Peace: Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace-keeping - Boutros Boutros-GhaliWhen Can Nations Go to War? Politics and Change in the UN Security System - Charlotte KuRecommendations of the Secretary-General′s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change: A Member′s Perspective - David HannayA Shared Responsibility for a More Secure World - Ramesh ThakurThe John Holmes Memorial Lecture: What Price Security? - Margaret Joan AnsteeHuman Protection and the 21st Century United Nations - Ban Ki-moonThe UN as Conflict Mediator: First amongst Equals or the Last Resort? - Thant Myint-UThe Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes - Ian BrownlieBuilding Peace through the Political Processes of the United Nations - Courtney B. SmithThe Security Council and the Rule of Law: An Overview - Christine GrayThe Fall of Saddam Hussein: Security Council Mandates and Preemptive Self-Defense - Ruth WedgwoodThe Evolution of Security Council Innovations in Sanctions - Joanna WeschlerUN Peacekeeping: An Overview - Syed Sikander MehdiThe UN′s Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq - James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, Andrew Rathmell, Brett Steele, Richard Teltschik and Anga TimilsinaManaging Mistrust: An Analysis of Cooperation with UN Peacekeeping in Africa - Andrea Ruggeri, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Hans DorussenUnited Nations Police Evolution, Present Capacity and Future Tasks - William J. DurchPeacekeeping Effects in South America: Common Experiences and Divergent Effects on Civil–Military Relations - Arturo Sotomayor VelázquezNot Just a Numbers Game: Increasing Women’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping - Sahana DharmapuriStrengthening the Rights of Women for a Stronger Africa - Zainab Hawa BanguraProtecting Children in Situations of Armed Conflict: Interview with Radhika Coomaraswamy - Radhika CoomaraswamyThe UN at the Peacemaking-Peacebuilding Nexus - Kyle BeardsleyDisarmament: Old Challenges, New Opportunities - Angela KaneRethinking the NPT′s Role in Security: 2010 and Beyond - Rebecca JohnsonVOLUME SIX: RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND PROTECTIONThe UN′s Human Rights Record: From San Francisco to Vienna and Beyond - Philip AlstonThe Question of Domestic Jurisdiction and the Evolution of United Nations Law of Human Rights - Abdulrahim P. VijapurAdvancing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: The Way Forward - Mary RobinsonAn Overview of the Reform of the UN Human Rights Machinery - Françoise HampsonUN Treaty Bodies and the Human Rights Council - Nigel S. Rodley“To See Themselves as Others See Them": The Five Permanent Members of the Security Council and the Human Rights Council′s Universal Periodic Review - Rhona SmithProtection of Human Rights through the Mechanism of UN Special Rapporteurs - Surya P. SubediPerformance and Challenges of the UN Human Rights Council - Theodor RathgeberBeijing, Backlash, and the Future of Women′s Human Rights - Charlotte BunchThe United Nations, Counter Terrorism, and Human Rights: Institutional Adaption and Embedded Ideas - Rosemary Foot’New Aid Modalities’: An Opportunity or Threat to Principled Engagement on Human Rights? - Mac DarrowThe UN as a Human Rights Violator? Some Reflections on the United Nations Changing Human Rights Responsibilities - Frédéric Mégret and Florian HoffmannThe Humanitarian Responsibilities of the United Nations Security Council: Ensuring the Security of the People - Juan SomaviaDeputy Secretary-General’s Press Conference on Rights Up Front - Jan EliassonIntervention - Kofi AnnanHumanitarian Intervention: Getting Past the Reefs - Shashi Tharoor and Sam DawsThe Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time Has Come ... and Gone? - Gareth EvansThe Responsibility to Protect: The First Decade - Edward C. LuckThe Relationship Between the ICC and the UN Security Council - Louise ArbourInternational Justice and Diplomacy - Fatou BensoudaTransitional Justice in the Arab Countries: Opportunities and Challenges - Mona RishmawiVOLUME SEVEN: POVERTY & DEVELOPMENTMillennium Development Goals: Milestones on a Long Road - Margaret AnsteeInternational Norm Dynamics and the "End of Poverty": Understanding the Millennium Development Goals - Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and David HulmeGlobal Goals – The UN Experience - Richard JollyMillennium Development Goal of Halving Poverty in Asia: Progress, Prospects and Priorities - Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai and Mani Arul NandhiUN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice - Dharam GhaiThe World Health Organization and Global Smallpox Eradication - S. BhattacharyaSeven Challenges in International Development Assistance for Health and Ways Forward - Devi SridharThe Road Not Taken: International Aid′s Choice of Copenhagen over Beijing - Rosalind EybenGender Justice: The World Bank’s New Approach to the Poor? - Susanne Schech and Sanjugta VasThe Imposition of a Global Development Architecture: The Example of Microcredit - Heloise WeberDevelopment Economics in the Wake of the Washington Consensus: From Smith to Smithereens? - Matthew M. TaylorAfrica Does Not Need Aid, but the Opportunity for Fair Trade - Inwani MalweyiLife after Bali: Renewing the World Trade Negotiating Agenda - Suparna KarmakarReimagining the Role of the Private Sector in Development - Homi KharasPower Shift: Do We Need Better Global Economic Institutions? - Ngaire WoodsInternational Humanitarian Crises: Two Decades before and Two Decades Beyond - Randolph KentThe Helmet and the Hoe: Linkages between United Nations Development Assistance and Conflict Management - Michèle GriffinExtract from Reforming Development Cooperation at the United Nations: An Analysis of Policy Position and Actions of Key States on Reform Options - Silke WeinlichDevelopment and the United Nations: Achievements and Challenges for the Future - Lorna Gold and Eileen ConnollyConflict & Poverty: A Vicious Cycle - Abiodun WilliamsA Matter of Justice: Securing Human Rights in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda - Centre for Economic and Social RightsGender – Is One Goal Enough? - Sylvia ChantSexual and Reproductive Rights at the United Nations: Frustration or Fulfillment? - Alice M. Miller and Mindy J. RosemanThe Politics of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Is Global Partnership Really Working? - Charles Mutasa"A New Global Partnership”: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development – Executive Summary - United Nations A Just and Sustainable World - Amina J. MohammedVOLUME EIGHT: ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITYResolution XXIII: Problems of the Human Environment - General Assembly of the United NationsThe Stockholm Conference: Where Science and Politics Meet - Maurice F. StrongOur Common Future Revisited - Gro Harlem BrundtlandThe Role of International Forums in the Advancement of Sustainable Development - Marie-Claire Cordonier SeggerFrom Stockholm to New York, via Rio and Johannesburg: Has the Environment Lost Its Way on the Global Agenda? - Paolo GalizziThe United Nations and Global Energy Governance: Past Challenges, Future Choices - Sylvia I. Karlsson-VinkhuyzenImplications for UNEP - Mark Halle, Adil Najam and Christopher BeatonThe Green Economy Post Rio+20 - Edward B. BarbierThe Durban Platform for Enhanced Action and the Future of the Climate Regime - Lavanya RajamaniIs a Global Agreement the Only Way to Tackle Climate Change? - Achim Steiner and David KingCan Climate Change Negotiations Succeed? - Jon Hovi, Tora Skodvin and Stine AakreEmerging Powers, North-South Relations and Global Climate Politics - Andrew Hurrell and Sandeep SenguptaThe Rise of BASIC in UN Climate Change Negotiations - Xinran QiThe EU’s Role in Climate Change Negotiations: From Leader to ‘Leadiator’ - Karin Bäckstrand and Ole ElgströmManaging Climate Change: The Africa Group in Multilateral Environmental Negotiations - Anesu MakinaThe Rio+20 Conference and International Law: Towards a Multi-Layered Multilateralism? - Fabiano de Andrade CorreaInternational Environmental Governance Reform within the United Nations: Seeking More Sustainability Towards and Beyond Rio + 20 Earth Environment Summit - Sylvestre-José-Tidiane MangaInstitutional Design and UNEP Reform: Historical Insights on Form, Function and Financing - Maria IvanovaHow to Build Sustainable Development Goals: Integrating Human Development and Environmental Sustainability in a New Global Agenda - Claire Melamed and Paul LaddSustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries - Johan Rockström, Jeffrey Sachs, Marcus C. Öhman and Guido Schmidt-TraubThe UN Environment Programme on Climate Change and International Security - United NationsClimate Justice: Challenge and Opportunity - Mary Robinson

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• VOLUME ONE: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTIONCharter of the United Nations - United NationsThe Development of International Organization in the Nineteenth Century - Inis L. Claude, JrFrom League of Nations to United Nations - Leland M. GoodrichFDR′s Five Policemen: Creating the United Nations - Stephen SchlesingerVictories on the International Front - Dorothy KenyonSome Reflections on Peace in Our Time - Ralph BuncheSpeech to the General Assembly, 11 November 1952 - Vijara Lakshmi PanditThe Commonwealth in the United Nations - Gwendolen M. CarterThe Role of the United Nations in World Affairs - Geoffrey GoodwinSpeech to the UN General Assembly, 6 October 1963 - Haile SelassieApartheid and the United Nations - Ram MalhotraThe Impact of African States on the United Nations - David KayThe United Nations and the International System - Oran R. YoungPromoting Nondiscrimination against Women: The UN Commission on the Status of Women - Margaret E. GaleyKofi Annan Unsettles People, as He Believes UN Should Do - Barbara CrossetteUnited Nations - Madeleine K. AlbrightIn Larger Freedom – The Changing Role of the United Nations - Kofi AnnanThe United Nations - Jeffrey Herbst, Roméo Dallaire, and Peter W. GalbraithDialectics of a Global Constitution: The Struggle over the UN Charter - Michael DoyleThe Enduring Myth of the UN - Natalie SamarasingheNew Histories of the United Nations - Sunil Amrith and Glenda SlugaVOLUME TWO: MACHINERYUN System Organization Chart - United NationsThe Forgotten Design for the System - Erskine Childers and Brian UrquhartInternational Organizations: Then and Now - José E. AlvarezGeneral Assembly - M. J. PetersonRevitalization of the General Assembly - Lydia SwartThe Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions - Michael WoodAssessing the UN Security Council: a Concert Perspective - David BoscoThe Security Council: Behind the Scenes - Linda MelvernDevelopments at the United Nations - Written Evidence Submitted to the UK Iraq Inquiry - Jeremy GreenstockDoes the United Nations Security Council Enhance or Undermine International Law? - Kishore MahbubaniThe Influence of States and Groups of States on and in the Security Council and General Assembly, 1980–94 - Sally MorphetEconomic and Social Council - Gert RosenthalImplementing Rio +20: ECOSOC′s New Role and its Old Culture - Harris GleckmanThe United Nations and Colonial Development - Annette Baker FoxThe Commonwealth and the United Nations Trusteeship of Non-Self-Governing Peoples - L.P. SinghThe Role of the International Court of Justice In the Global Community - Christopher GreenwoodDeparting Thoughts on the International Court of Justice - Rosalyn HigginsPost-Cold War Justice: The UN Ad Hoc Tribunals, Mixed Courts and the ICC - Richard J. Goldstone and Adam M. SmithSecretariat – Independence and Reform - James O. C. JonahThe Office of the Secretary-General and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security - Nabil ElarabyStrategic Planning in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General - Abiodun WilliamsThe Next Secretary-General: How to Fill a Job with No Description - Brian UrquhartBreaking Barriers? Women’s Representation and Leadership at the United Nations - Kirsten HaackNegotiating the UN’s budget: Multilateralism in Action - Hannah DaviesVOLUME THREE: ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPSCollective Legitimization as a Political Function of the United Nations - Inis L. Claude, JrInternational Organization: A State of the Art and Art of the State - Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerard RuggieUnited Nations “Policy”: An Argument with Three Illustrations - Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. WeissSovereignty as Responsibility” to the “Responsibility to Protect" - Francis M. DengSovereignty in the Balance: Claims and Bargains at the UN Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights and Women - Kathryn Hochstetler, Ann Marie Clark and Elisabeth J. FriedmanThe United Nations as a Political System: A Practicing Political Scientist’s Insights into UN Politics - J.J. KirkpatrickFacing 21st Century Threats: Why America Needs the UN - Susan RiceThe Centrality of the United Nations in Russian Foreign Policy - Ritsa PanagiotouMiddle Range Powers in Global Governance - Hongying Wang and Erik FrenchChallenges Facing Small States at the UN - Vanu Gopala MenonHow Goliath Slew David at the United Nations: A South Asian Perspective - Iftekhar Ahmed ChowdhuryThe “Third Force” and the United Nations - Khalid I BabaaThe North-South Divide at the United Nations: Fading at Last? - David M. Malone and Lotta HagmanIslamist Perceptions of the United Nations and its Peacekeeping Missions: Some Preliminary Findings - Brynjar LiaThe Origins and Development of UN Electoral Groups - Sam DawsInformal Groups of States and the UN Security Council - Jochen PrantlUN Elections: Power, Influence, Reputation - Anne AndersonEyes on the Prize: The Quest for Nonpermanent Seats on the UN Security Council - David M. MaloneThe United Nations and Regional Organizations: The Need For Clarification and Cooperation - Tania FelicioThe UN and the African Union’s Security Architecture: Defining an Emerging Partnership? - Kwesi AningNongovernmental Organizations in the United Nations System: The Emerging Role of International Civil Society - Dianne OttoThe Global Compact: Selected Experiences and Reflections - Georg KellVOLUME FOUR: A UN FOR THE 21ST CENTURYSecurity, Solidarity, and Sovereignty: The Grand Themes of UN Reform - Ann-Marie SlaughterHow Not to Reform the United Nations - Ed LuckGrand Goals, Modest Results: The UN in Search of Reform - Jeffrey LaurentiUN Transformation in an Era of Soft Balancing - Stephen John StedmanThe John W. Holmes Lecture: Can the UN Be Reformed? - M. Malloch BrownReforming the United Nations - John Bolton and Richard HolbrookeFundamental UN Reform – A Non-Starter or Not? - Thomas G. WeissReforming the United Nations - Prakash ShahOrganizational Culture, System Evolution and the United Nations of the 21st Century - Alisa ClarkeGreat Expectations: UN Reform and the Role of the Secretary-General - Simon ChestermanManagement Reform in the United Nations: Between Politics and Efficiency - Joachim MüllerSecurity Council Reform: The Dual Risks - Sam DawsMyths of Membership: The Politics of Legitimation in UN Security Council Reform - Ian HurdMore Transparency and More Participation: The Informal Reform of the Working Methods of the UN Security Council - Helmut VolgerReforming the Working Methods of the UN Security Council: the next ACT - Volker LehmannMaking Intervention Work: Improving the UN’s Ability to Act - Morton Abramowitz and Thomas PickeringThe UN Security Council and Human Rights: State Sovereignty and Human Dignity - David P. ForsytheUnited Nations: New Issues, New Ideas, Not Enough Financing - Vikas NathWhy We – Especially the West – Need the UN Development System - Kishore MahbubaniThe Way Forward for the WTO: Reforming the Decision-Making Process - Memory DubeAn Historical Perspective - H.W. SingerThe Vision and the Reality - Mahbub ul HaqThe UN and the Financial Crisis: Breathing Life into Bretton Woods - Natalie SamarasingheFrom Keeping Peace to Building Peace: Proposal for a Revitalized United Nations Trusteeship Council - Saira MohamedFrom UN Commission on Human Rights to UN Human Rights Council: One Step Forwards or Two Steps Sideways? - Nazila Ghanea(Re)generating Peacekeeping Authority: The Brahimi Process - Silke WeinlichThe New United Nations “Gender Architecture”: The Creation of UN Women - Hilary Charlesworth and Christine ChinkinThe UN in Practice - David HannayThe Changing Humanitarian Landscape - Sara PantulianoCan the UN Ever Really Be Neutral? - John HolmesAddress to the General Assembly – 24 September 2013 - Ban Ki-moonVOLUME FIVE: CONFLICT & CRISISThe Evolving Role of the United Nations in International Peace and Security - Marrack GouldingAn Agenda for Peace: Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace-keeping - Boutros Boutros-GhaliWhen Can Nations Go to War? Politics and Change in the UN Security System - Charlotte KuRecommendations of the Secretary-General′s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change: A Member′s Perspective - David HannayA Shared Responsibility for a More Secure World - Ramesh ThakurThe John Holmes Memorial Lecture: What Price Security? - Margaret Joan AnsteeHuman Protection and the 21st Century United Nations - Ban Ki-moonThe UN as Conflict Mediator: First amongst Equals or the Last Resort? - Thant Myint-UThe Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes - Ian BrownlieBuilding Peace through the Political Processes of the United Nations - Courtney B. SmithThe Security Council and the Rule of Law: An Overview - Christine GrayThe Fall of Saddam Hussein: Security Council Mandates and Preemptive Self-Defense - Ruth WedgwoodThe Evolution of Security Council Innovations in Sanctions - Joanna WeschlerUN Peacekeeping: An Overview - Syed Sikander MehdiThe UN′s Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq - James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, Andrew Rathmell, Brett Steele, Richard Teltschik and Anga TimilsinaManaging Mistrust: An Analysis of Cooperation with UN Peacekeeping in Africa - Andrea Ruggeri, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Hans DorussenUnited Nations Police Evolution, Present Capacity and Future Tasks - William J. DurchPeacekeeping Effects in South America: Common Experiences and Divergent Effects on Civil–Military Relations - Arturo Sotomayor VelázquezNot Just a Numbers Game: Increasing Women’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping - Sahana DharmapuriStrengthening the Rights of Women for a Stronger Africa - Zainab Hawa BanguraProtecting Children in Situations of Armed Conflict: Interview with Radhika Coomaraswamy - Radhika CoomaraswamyThe UN at the Peacemaking-Peacebuilding Nexus - Kyle BeardsleyDisarmament: Old Challenges, New Opportunities - Angela KaneRethinking the NPT′s Role in Security: 2010 and Beyond - Rebecca JohnsonVOLUME SIX: RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND PROTECTIONThe UN′s Human Rights Record: From San Francisco to Vienna and Beyond - Philip AlstonThe Question of Domestic Jurisdiction and the Evolution of United Nations Law of Human Rights - Abdulrahim P. VijapurAdvancing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: The Way Forward - Mary RobinsonAn Overview of the Reform of the UN Human Rights Machinery - Françoise HampsonUN Treaty Bodies and the Human Rights Council - Nigel S. Rodley“To See Themselves as Others See Them": The Five Permanent Members of the Security Council and the Human Rights Council′s Universal Periodic Review - Rhona SmithProtection of Human Rights through the Mechanism of UN Special Rapporteurs - Surya P. SubediPerformance and Challenges of the UN Human Rights Council - Theodor RathgeberBeijing, Backlash, and the Future of Women′s Human Rights - Charlotte BunchThe United Nations, Counter Terrorism, and Human Rights: Institutional Adaption and Embedded Ideas - Rosemary Foot’New Aid Modalities’: An Opportunity or Threat to Principled Engagement on Human Rights? - Mac DarrowThe UN as a Human Rights Violator? Some Reflections on the United Nations Changing Human Rights Responsibilities - Frédéric Mégret and Florian HoffmannThe Humanitarian Responsibilities of the United Nations Security Council: Ensuring the Security of the People - Juan SomaviaDeputy Secretary-General’s Press Conference on Rights Up Front - Jan EliassonIntervention - Kofi AnnanHumanitarian Intervention: Getting Past the Reefs - Shashi Tharoor and Sam DawsThe Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time Has Come ... and Gone? - Gareth EvansThe Responsibility to Protect: The First Decade - Edward C. LuckThe Relationship Between the ICC and the UN Security Council - Louise ArbourInternational Justice and Diplomacy - Fatou BensoudaTransitional Justice in the Arab Countries: Opportunities and Challenges - Mona RishmawiVOLUME SEVEN: POVERTY & DEVELOPMENTMillennium Development Goals: Milestones on a Long Road - Margaret AnsteeInternational Norm Dynamics and the "End of Poverty": Understanding the Millennium Development Goals - Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and David HulmeGlobal Goals – The UN Experience - Richard JollyMillennium Development Goal of Halving Poverty in Asia: Progress, Prospects and Priorities - Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai and Mani Arul NandhiUN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice - Dharam GhaiThe World Health Organization and Global Smallpox Eradication - S. BhattacharyaSeven Challenges in International Development Assistance for Health and Ways Forward - Devi SridharThe Road Not Taken: International Aid′s Choice of Copenhagen over Beijing - Rosalind EybenGender Justice: The World Bank’s New Approach to the Poor? - Susanne Schech and Sanjugta VasThe Imposition of a Global Development Architecture: The Example of Microcredit - Heloise WeberDevelopment Economics in the Wake of the Washington Consensus: From Smith to Smithereens? - Matthew M. TaylorAfrica Does Not Need Aid, but the Opportunity for Fair Trade - Inwani MalweyiLife after Bali: Renewing the World Trade Negotiating Agenda - Suparna KarmakarReimagining the Role of the Private Sector in Development - Homi KharasPower Shift: Do We Need Better Global Economic Institutions? - Ngaire WoodsInternational Humanitarian Crises: Two Decades before and Two Decades Beyond - Randolph KentThe Helmet and the Hoe: Linkages between United Nations Development Assistance and Conflict Management - Michèle GriffinExtract from Reforming Development Cooperation at the United Nations: An Analysis of Policy Position and Actions of Key States on Reform Options - Silke WeinlichDevelopment and the United Nations: Achievements and Challenges for the Future - Lorna Gold and Eileen ConnollyConflict & Poverty: A Vicious Cycle - Abiodun WilliamsA Matter of Justice: Securing Human Rights in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda - Centre for Economic and Social RightsGender – Is One Goal Enough? - Sylvia ChantSexual and Reproductive Rights at the United Nations: Frustration or Fulfillment? - Alice M. Miller and Mindy J. RosemanThe Politics of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Is Global Partnership Really Working? - Charles Mutasa"A New Global Partnership”: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development – Executive Summary - United Nations A Just and Sustainable World - Amina J. MohammedVOLUME EIGHT: ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITYResolution XXIII: Problems of the Human Environment - General Assembly of the United NationsThe Stockholm Conference: Where Science and Politics Meet - Maurice F. StrongOur Common Future Revisited - Gro Harlem BrundtlandThe Role of International Forums in the Advancement of Sustainable Development - Marie-Claire Cordonier SeggerFrom Stockholm to New York, via Rio and Johannesburg: Has the Environment Lost Its Way on the Global Agenda? - Paolo GalizziThe United Nations and Global Energy Governance: Past Challenges, Future Choices - Sylvia I. Karlsson-VinkhuyzenImplications for UNEP - Mark Halle, Adil Najam and Christopher BeatonThe Green Economy Post Rio+20 - Edward B. BarbierThe Durban Platform for Enhanced Action and the Future of the Climate Regime - Lavanya RajamaniIs a Global Agreement the Only Way to Tackle Climate Change? - Achim Steiner and David KingCan Climate Change Negotiations Succeed? - Jon Hovi, Tora Skodvin and Stine AakreEmerging Powers, North-South Relations and Global Climate Politics - Andrew Hurrell and Sandeep SenguptaThe Rise of BASIC in UN Climate Change Negotiations - Xinran QiThe EU’s Role in Climate Change Negotiations: From Leader to ‘Leadiator’ - Karin Bäckstrand and Ole ElgströmManaging Climate Change: The Africa Group in Multilateral Environmental Negotiations - Anesu MakinaThe Rio+20 Conference and International Law: Towards a Multi-Layered Multilateralism? - Fabiano de Andrade CorreaInternational Environmental Governance Reform within the United Nations: Seeking More Sustainability Towards and Beyond Rio + 20 Earth Environment Summit - Sylvestre-José-Tidiane MangaInstitutional Design and UNEP Reform: Historical Insights on Form, Function and Financing - Maria IvanovaHow to Build Sustainable Development Goals: Integrating Human Development and Environmental Sustainability in a New Global Agenda - Claire Melamed and Paul LaddSustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries - Johan Rockström, Jeffrey Sachs, Marcus C. Öhman and Guido Schmidt-TraubThe UN Environment Programme on Climate Change and International Security - United NationsClimate Justice: Challenge and Opportunity - Mary Robinson