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  • INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
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    INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
    THOMAS G. WEISS
    Completely revised and updated, this textbook continues to offer the most comprehensive resource available. Concise chapters from a diverse mix of established and emerging global scholars offer accessible, in-depth coverage of the history and theories of international organization and global governance and discussions of the full range of state, intergovernmental, and non-state...

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  • GLOBAL GOVERNANCE FUTURES
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    GLOBAL GOVERNANCE FUTURES
    THOMAS G. WEISS
    Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the twenty-first century by exploring today’s most pressing and enduring health, social, ecological, economic, and political challenges. Each of the expert contributors...

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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON THE UN AND DEVELOPMENT
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    ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON THE UN AND DEVELOPMENT
    STEPHEN BROWNE / ‎THOMAS G WEISS
    International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN’s development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an essential contributor to progress and peacebuilding. This handbook explores the activities of the UN development system (UNDS), the largest operational pillar of the organization and ar...

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  • THE UNITED NATIONS AND CHANGING WORLD POLITICS
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    THE UNITED NATIONS AND CHANGING WORLD POLITICS
    THOMAS G. WEISS
    This completely revised and updated eighth edition serves as the definitive text for courses in which the United Nations is either the focus or a central component. Built around three critical themes in international relations (peace and security, human rights and humanitarian affairs, and sustainable human development) the eighth edition of The United Nations and Changing Worl...

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  • THE NATURE OF UNITED NATIONS BUREAUCRACIES
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    THE NATURE OF UNITED NATIONS BUREAUCRACIES
    DAVID PITT / THOMAS G WEISS
    This book concentrates on the bureaucratic aspects of the United Nation. It is intended to be educational, and indeed young people are intended to be a special audience. The book attempts to identify explanations for stability and initiative within international secretariats. ...

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  • HUMANITARIAN CHALLENGES AND INTERVENTION
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    HUMANITARIAN CHALLENGES AND INTERVENTION
    THOMAS G WEISS / CINDY COLLINS
    There are two distinct contemporary challenges to the relief of war-induced human suffering--one within the institutions that make up the international humanitarian system, the other on the ground in war zones. Varied interests, resources, and organizational structures within institutions hamper the effectiveness of efforts on behalf of war victims. And at the same time, on the...

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  • THE UN AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH, 1945 AND 2015
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    THE UN AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH, 1945 AND 2015
    THOMAS G. WEISS
    There is a woeful neglect of the current United Nations in the academic and policy literatures, and so it is unsurprising that an examination of that multilateral structure before 1945 shows an even more egregious absence of analytical attention. Such ignorance conveniently ignores the forgotten genius of 1942–1945, namely in the wide substantive and geographic relevance of mul...

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  • GOVERNING THE WORLD?
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    GOVERNING THE WORLD?
    THOMAS G WEISS
    Problems posed by Syria s chemical weapons attacks, Egypt s ouster of an elected government, and myriad other global dilemmas beg the question of whether and how the world can be governed. The challenge is addressing what former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Problems without Passports environmental, economic, humanitarian, and political crises that threaten stability, ...

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  • POST-2015 UN DEVELOPMENT
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    POST-2015 UN DEVELOPMENT
    STEPHEN BROWNE & THOMAS G. WEISS
    In 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed to the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration included development targets to be reached by 2015, which were to become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Progress has been made towards the achievement of the MDGs, but poverty remains widespread. With the terminal year approaching, the interna...

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  • HUMANITARIANISM CONTESTED
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    HUMANITARIANISM CONTESTED
    MICHAEL BARNETT / THOMAS G. WEISS
    This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case studies, the book: provides a brief survey of the history of humanitarianism, begin...

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  • THINKING ABOUT GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
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    THINKING ABOUT GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
    THOMAS G. WEISS
    One of the more prolific and influential analysts of multilateral approaches to global problem-solving over the last three decades is Thomas G. Weiss. Thinking about Global Governance, Why People and Ideas Matter, assembles key scholarly and policy writing. This collection organizes his most recent work addressing the core issues of the United Nations, global governance, and hu...

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  • INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT
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    INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT
    THOMAS G. WEISS / DAVID A. KORN
    This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs). The crisis of IDPs was first confronted in the 1980s, and the problems of those suffering from this type of forced migration has grown continually since then. Drawing on official and confidential documents as well...

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  • GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND THE UN
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    GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND THE UN
    THOMAS G. WEISS / RAMESH THAKUR
    In the 21st century, the world is faced with threats of global scale that cannot be confronted without collective action. Although global government as such does not exist, formal and informal institutions, practices, and initiatives—together forming "global governance"—bring a greater measure of predictability, stability, and order to trans-border issues than might be expected...

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