Between Sovereignty and Global Governance : the United Nations, the State and Civil Society

This book explores the nature and problems of global governance as we enter the next millennium. It focuses on the United Nations, the most ambitious experiment to date in multilateral management of world society. Leading scholars, policy-makers, and representatives of non-governmental organizations examine the economic, security, and civil political dimensions of governance, exploring the impact of changing global conditions on national, regional, and international institutions and processes of governance. They use the experience of the United Nations system to illuminate the nature and viability of sovereign and non-sovereign forms of governance in an era of rapid political, economic, cultural, strategic, and ecological change. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Changing Patterns of Governance: From Absolutism to Global Multilateralism....Pages 3-28 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 The Place of Law in Collective Security: Reflections on the Recent Activity of the Security Council....Pages 35-59 Let Whatever is Smouldering Erupt? Conditional Sovereignty, Reviewable Intervention and Rwanda 1994....Pages 60-84 The Shortcomings of the ‘New Humanitarianism’....Pages 85-99 Peacekeeping or Peace Enforcement? Global Flux and the Dilemmas of UN Interventions....Pages 100-117 The UN Role in Facilitating Regional Nuclear-Free and Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zones....Pages 118-134 Greening the United Nations: Future Conditional?....Pages 135-161 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 The New World Disorder: If the States Collapse, Can the Nations be United?....Pages 171-185 Where are the People? The United Nations, Global Economic Institutions and Governance....Pages 186-206 The Bretton Woods Institutions and the Demise of the UN Development System....Pages 207-227 The Case for an Economic Security Council in the United Nations....Pages 228-243 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Powerful Tendencies, Enduring Tensions and Glaring Contradictions: The United Nations in a Turbulent World....Pages 252-273 The United Nations and World Order in Democratic Transition....Pages 274-295 The Outlook for UN Reform: Necessary, but Impossible....Pages 296-311 Regional Arrangements and Democratic Reform of the United Nations....Pages 312-329 Front Matter....Pages 331-331 The UN’s Place in the Era of Globalization: A Four-Dimensional Perspective....Pages 333-350 Back Matter....Pages 351-358