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The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction (English Edition) 1st 版, Kindle版
The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimaki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new challenges in a rapidly changing world.
After a brief history of the United Nations and its predecessor, the League of Nations, the author examines the UN's successes and failures as a guardian of international peace and security, as a promoter of human rights, as a protector of international law, and as an engineer of socio-economic development. Hanhimaki stresses that the UN's greatest problem has been the impossibly wide gap between its ambitions and capabilities. In the area of international security, for instance, the UN has to settle conflicts--be they between or within states--without offending the national sovereignty of its member states, and without being sidelined by strong countries, as happened in the 2003 intervention of Iraq. Hanhimaki also provides a clear accounting of the UN and its various arms and organizations (such as UNESCO and UNICEF), and he offers a critical overview of how effective it has been in the recent crises in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, for example--and how likely it is to meet its overall goals in the future.
The United Nations, Hanhimaki concludes, is an indispensable organization that has made the world a better place. But it is also a deeply flawed institution, in need of constant reform.
After a brief history of the United Nations and its predecessor, the League of Nations, the author examines the UN's successes and failures as a guardian of international peace and security, as a promoter of human rights, as a protector of international law, and as an engineer of socio-economic development. Hanhimaki stresses that the UN's greatest problem has been the impossibly wide gap between its ambitions and capabilities. In the area of international security, for instance, the UN has to settle conflicts--be they between or within states--without offending the national sovereignty of its member states, and without being sidelined by strong countries, as happened in the 2003 intervention of Iraq. Hanhimaki also provides a clear accounting of the UN and its various arms and organizations (such as UNESCO and UNICEF), and he offers a critical overview of how effective it has been in the recent crises in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, for example--and how likely it is to meet its overall goals in the future.
The United Nations, Hanhimaki concludes, is an indispensable organization that has made the world a better place. But it is also a deeply flawed institution, in need of constant reform.
- ISBN-109780195304374
- ISBN-13978-0195304374
- 版第1
- 出版社Oxford University Press, USA
- 発売日2008/9/30
- 言語英語
- ファイルサイズ1066 KB
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著者について
Jussi M. Hanhimäki is Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. An editor of the journal Cold War History, he is the author or co-author of six books, including The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy. He won the 2002 Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
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- ASIN : B001IWL2BA
- 出版社 : Oxford University Press, USA; 第1版 (2008/9/30)
- 発売日 : 2008/9/30
- 言語 : 英語
- ファイルサイズ : 1066 KB
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- 付箋メモ : Kindle Scribeで
- 本の長さ : 185ページ
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Prof Tom Plate
5つ星のうち5.0
TREMENDOUSLY INFORMED -- AND INFORMATIVE
2012年4月6日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
A tremendously informative -- and informed -- overview of the United Nations system. This is an overview that emphasizes both the history and sprawling expanse of the UN as a checkered but inter-linked system. It avoids the journalistic fallacy of personalizing either the Office of Secretary General or the institution itself, and is rock-solid on important details and relevant problems. It accepts the UN as a necessary world institution without in any sense ignoring its yawning structural problems. Highly recommended. I will use it as the basic introductory text for my undergraduate "The Future of the United Nations" class at university. By the way, as the series title would suggest...it is pointedly concise. In an age of wasted Internet and Blog words...BRAVO!
Samantha
5つ星のうち5.0
Great!
2013年2月15日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
The parcel was delivered on the expected date and was exactly as the description mentioned in the buy. All went as planned and nothing beats that!
Peter Moffat
5つ星のうち5.0
Great clear introduction into the topic!
2013年2月3日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I found this little book very easy to read and well written. The author clearly has extensive knowledge about the history of the UN and gives a good balanced point of view pointing out both the problems and benefits that come with the largest global organisation that ever existed!
Great read.
Great read.
A A Davies
5つ星のうち4.0
An Ok intro.
2014年4月19日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
As with all very short intros - very good. Not the most interesting read - I needed it for a quick refresh prior to a career course.
Jeff Walden
5つ星のうち4.0
Nice, short overview of the UN, its structure, and its actions
2012年5月27日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
The title says it all -- this book's a short summary of the history behind the UN, the structure of the UN, the challenges facing it, and the avenues for future reform. It's a reasonably short read, although not quite one to breeze through, acronym-laden as it is (pretty much by necessity, given how the UN works).
As the author acknowledges, he's writing the book as a UN apologist. Yet at the same time, he doesn't hesitate to discuss the many times and ways the UN's fallen short of its original lofty goals. I tend to think it won't change many people's minds about the value or futility of the UN (it doesn't seem to have been written with an explicit goal of that sort), but at least it'll leave people better informed as to what the UN does and doesn't do, effectively and incompetently.
As the author acknowledges, he's writing the book as a UN apologist. Yet at the same time, he doesn't hesitate to discuss the many times and ways the UN's fallen short of its original lofty goals. I tend to think it won't change many people's minds about the value or futility of the UN (it doesn't seem to have been written with an explicit goal of that sort), but at least it'll leave people better informed as to what the UN does and doesn't do, effectively and incompetently.