United Nations Intellectual History Project Series – serie
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13 produkter
Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas
Perspectives from the UN Regional Commissions
Häftad, 2004
388 kr
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This second volume from the United Nations Intellectual History Project surveys the history of the UN's regional commissions and the ideas they have developed over the last 40 years. Each essay is devoted to one of the five regional commissions—Europe, Asia and the Far East, Latin America, Africa, …
Quantifying the World
UN Ideas and Statistics
Av Michael Ward, Louis Emmerij m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
342 kr
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Good data, Michael Ward argues, serve to enhance a perception about life as well as to deepen an understanding of reality. This history of the UN's role in fostering international statistics in the postwar period demonstrates how statistics have shaped our understanding of the world. Drawing on …
UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice
Av Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
445 kr
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UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once a history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical economists to the recent emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role in shaping and implementing development paradigms over the last …
UN and Global Political Economy
Trade, Finance, and Development
Häftad, 2004
332 kr
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Against the backdrop of a 20-year revolt against free trade orthodoxy by economists inside the UN and their impact on policy discussions since the 1960s, the authors show how the UN both nurtured and inhibited creative and novel intellectual contributions to the trade and development debate. …
UN Voices
The Struggle for Development and Social Justice
Av Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
329 kr
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"The authors have cajoled, intrigued, or reassured their 73 'voices' into telling a fascinating story of the UN and its institutions, which is also a story of 73 individual lives, of women and men . . . with their own complicated histories of emigration and education, family relationships and …
Women, Development, and the UN
A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice
Av Devaki Jain
Häftad, 2005
245 kr
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"Devaki Jain opens the doors of the United Nations and shows how it has changed the female half of the world—and vice versa. Women, Development, and the UN is a book that every global citizen, government leader, journalist, academic, and self-respecting woman should read." —Gloria Steinem"Devaki …
Human Security and the UN
A Critical History
Av S. Neil MacFarlane, Yuen Foong Khong
Häftad, 2006
385 kr
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How did the individual human being become the focus of the contemporary discourse on security? What was the role of the United Nations in "securing" the individual? What are the payoffs and costs of this extension of the concept? Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong tackle these questions by …
Human Rights at the UN
The Political History of Universal Justice
Häftad, 2008
354 kr
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Human rights activists Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi provide a broad political history of the emergence and development of the human rights movement in the 20th century through the crucible of the United Nations, focusing on the hopes and expectations, concrete power struggles, national rivalries, …
Preventive Diplomacy at the UN
Häftad, 2008
301 kr
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The concept of preventive diplomacy has captivated the United Nations since it was first articulated by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld a half-century ago. Successive generations of diplomats and statesmen have invested in the idea that diplomatic efforts might be able to head off international …
UN and Transnational Corporations
From Code of Conduct to Global Compact
Av Tagi Sagafi-nejad, John H. Dunning
Häftad, 2008
289 kr
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Are transnational corporations (TNCs) and foreign direct investment beneficial or harmful to societies around the world? Since the birth of the United Nations more than 60 years ago, these questions have been major issues of interest and involvement for UN institutions. What have been the key ideas …
UN and Development
From Aid to Cooperation
Av Olav Stokke
Häftad, 2009
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
441 kr
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The UN and Development provides the first comprehensive overview of the development policies and activities of the United Nations system from the late 1940s to the present. With an explicit focus on the history of the ideas that have been generated, institutionalized, and implemented by UN …
UN Ideas That Changed the World
Av Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
273 kr
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Ideas and concepts have been a driving force in human progress, and they may be the most important legacy of the United Nations. UN ideas have set past, present, and future international agendas in many global economic and social arenas and have also led to initiatives and actions that have …
Development Without Destruction
The UN and Global Resource Management
Häftad, 2010
343 kr
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Since 1945, the UN has been actively engaged in conceptualizing strategies for both economic development and a sustainable environment. From a broad historical perspective, Development without Destruction sketches the role played by organizations and individuals in the UN system in developing and …
