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 diplomacy and deployment, and peacekeeping, among other things.
Author(s): W. Andy Knight
Edition: 1ST
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 298
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Preface......Page 19
Foreword......Page 21
Notes on the Contributors......Page 23
Introduction: Adapting the United Nations......Page 26
Part I Conceptualizing Change in the United Nations......Page 34
1 Requirements of Multilateral Governance for Promoting Human Security in a Postmodern Era......Page 36
2 Learning in the United Nations......Page 53
Part II Adaptations of UN Primary Concepts and Instruments......Page 64
3 Collective Security: Changing Conceptions and Institutional Adaptation......Page 66
4 Possibilities for Preventive Diplomacy, Early Warning and Global Monitoring in the Post-Cold War Era; or, the Limits to Global Structural Change......Page 77
5 The United Nations and Preventive Deployment in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia......Page 90
6 UN Intervention and Peacebuilding in Somalia: Constraints and Possibilities......Page 102
7 International Criminal Law Enforcement......Page 120
Part III Cases......Page 138
8 UN Fact-Finding in a Postmodern World: Potential for Arms Limitation and Confidence-Building......Page 140
9 The Future Role of the United Nations in Disarmament: Learning from the Iraq Experience......Page 154
10 The Civilian Police Element in UN Peacekeeping: The Case of Haiti......Page 165
11 The Neutralization of Protracted Conflicts: The Case of UNTAC......Page 175
12 Pivots of Peace: UN Transitional Operations......Page 188
13 The United Nations and NATO’s War: The Fallout from Kosovo......Page 203
14 Improving the Capacity of the United Nations’ Human Rights System......Page 216
15 Environmental Security: Finding the Balance......Page 227
16 Changing the Global Trade Structure: From ‘Harmonization’ to a New ‘Interface Principle’......Page 244
Conclusion: Rethinking instead of Tinkering – an Ethical Consensus and General Lessons......Page 258
Index......Page 277
