Adapting the United Nations to a Post-Modern Era: Lessons Learned

by Andy W. Knight and W. Andy Knight

Book Overview

This book addresses the central theme of adjusting the United Nations system in light of the broadening definition of security, a perceived shift from modernity to post-modernity, and the contemporary debate about reform, adaptation, and institutional learning in multilateral institutions during transitional periods. The authors in this study focus on the lessons learned from the organization's recent performance in collective security, preventive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333801504
• ISBN13: 9780333801505
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.9"