Irrelevant or Indispensable?: The United Nations in the Twenty-First Century

by Paul Heinbecker

Suffering from a divided membership, the United Nations is at a crossroads, unable to assure human or national security. The UN has been criticized as irrelevant by its most--and least--powerful members alike because it can't reach consensus on how to respond to twenty-first-century challenges of global terrorism, endemic poverty, and crimes against humanity.

Secretary General Kofi Annan has proposed a package of sweeping reforms that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889204934
• ISBN13: 9780889204935
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"