02877cam a22003614a 4500 14135561 20170105102912.0 051007s2006 nyua b 001 0 eng 2005044785 0375501657 9780375501654 (OCoLC)ocm62110019 DLC DLC BAKER C#P ZJI BUR DLC pcc JZ4984.5 .K46 2006 341.23 22 Kennedy, Paul M., 1945- The parliament of man : the past, present, and future of the United Nations / Paul Kennedy. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2006. xvii, 361 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-311) and index. THE ORIGINS: The troubled advance to a New World Order, 1815-1945 -- THE EVOLUTION OF THE MANY UNs SINCE 1954: The conundrum of the Security Council -- Peacekeeping and warmaking -- Economic agendas, north and south -- The softer face of the UN's mission -- Advancing international human rights -- "We the peoples": democracy, governments and nongovernmental actors -- THE PRESENT AND FUTURE: The promise and peril of the 21st century. Scholar Kennedy gives a thorough history of the United Nations that explains the institution's roots and functions while also casting an eye on the UN's effectiveness as a body and on its prospects for success in meeting coming challenges. He makes sense of the commissions and committees, and how the six main operating bodies operate and interact. Citing examples from history, he shows how the five permanent members of the Security Council on numerous occasions overcame political antagonisms to spearhead military supervision of aid in humanitarian crises, and how lack of cooperation among the great powers has hamstrung such initiatives as the control of greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbated the deleterious effects of globalization on developing nations' economies. As a body, the UN emerges here for what it is: fallible, human-based, oftentimes dependent on the whims of powerful nations or the foibles of individual senior administrators, but utterly indispensable.--From publisher description. United Nations History. International relations. Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2005044785-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2005044785-d.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0646/2005044785-s.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 15186 15186 0 0 0 0 NFIC CIPS CIPS GEN 2013-09-30 0 341.23 KEN 2006 CIPS0001587 2013-11-07 2013-11-07 BK