Whats Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It

by Thomas G. Weiss

Book Overview

Six decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related agencies and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century's world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745659837
• ISBN13: 9780745659831
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.3"