What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It by Tho... - 9781509507436

What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix ItAuthor(s): Thomas G. Weiss\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509507436, 978-1509507436\nSynopsis\nSeven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-centurys world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, todays 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? 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 o.