Ideas and concepts have been a driving force in human progress, and they
may be the most important legacy of the United Nations. UN ideas have set past,
present, and future international agendas in ...many global economic and social arenas
and have also led to initiatives and actions that have improved the quality of human
life. This capstone volume draws upon findings of the other 14 books in the
acclaimed United Nations Intellectual History Project Series. The authors not only
assess the development and implementation of UN ideas regarding sustainable economic
development and human security, but also apply lessons learned to suggest ways in
which the United Nations can play a fuller role in confronting the challenges of
human survival with dignity in the 21st century.
UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once a
history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical
economists to the recent emphasis on human ...rights, and a history of the UN's role in
shaping and implementing development paradigms over the last half century. The
authors, all prominent in the field of development studies, argue that the UN's
founding document, the UN Charter, is infused with the human values and human
concerns that are at the center of the UN's thinking on economic and human
development today. In the intervening period, the authors show how the UN's approach
to development evolved from mainstream areas of economic development to include
issues of employment, poverty reduction, fairer distribution of the benefits of
growth, equality of men and women, child development, social justice, and
environmental sustainability.
UN Voices Weiss, Thomas G; Carayannis, Tatiana; Emmerij, Louis
2005, 20050101
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The authors have cajoled, intrigued, or reassured their 73 'voices'
into telling a fascinating story of the UN and its institutions, which is also a
story of 73 individual lives, of women and men... ...with their own complicated
histories of emigration and education, family relationships and professional
choices, hopes and successes. -- from the Foreword by Emma
Rothschild Far from being a distant bureaucracy, the UN is
composed of individuals who are reshaped by vital experiences. UN Voices gives
international civil servants human faces and shows how ideas drive the grand
experiment. It is a fascinating book. -- Arthur Schlesinger,
Jr. UN Voices presents the human and moving stories of an
extraordinary group of individuals who contributed to the economic and social record
of the UN's life and activities. Drawing from extensive interviews, the book
presents in their own words the experiences of 73 individuals from around the globe
who have spent much of their professional lives engaged in United Nations affairs.
We hear from secretaries-general and presidents, ministers and professors, social
workers and field workers, as well as diplomats and executive heads of UN agencies.
Among those interviewed are noted figures such as Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali,
Alister McIntyre, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, and Kurt
Waldheim, as well as many less well known UN professional men and women who have
made significant contributions to the international struggle for a better world.
Their personal accounts also engage their contributions in dealing with such events
and issues as the UN's founding, decolonization, the rise and fall of the Berlin
Wall, human rights, the environment, and September 11, 2001.
The location of an Organization is important. Most are located in impersonal buildings of steel and glass. In some, very few indeed, you feel the vestige of a presence of the past. The House in which ...the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation has been located since 1965 -- a few years after its inception 50 years ago -- is one of those very rare places where one gets the distinct impression that creative people have lived and worked there. Adapted from the source document.
How did the individual human being become the focus of the contemporary
discourse on security? What was the role of the United Nations in
securing the individual? What are the payoffs and costs of ...this
extension of the concept? Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong tackle these
questions by analyzing historical and contemporary debates about what is to be
secured. From Westphalia through the 19th century, the state's claim to be the
object of security was sustainable because it offered its subjects some measure of
protection. The state's ability to provide security for its citizens came under
heavy strain in the 20th century as a result of technological, strategic, and
ideological innovations. By the end of World War II, efforts to reclaim the security
rights of individuals gathered pace, as seen in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and a host of United Nations covenants and conventions. MacFarlane and Khong
highlight the UN's work in promoting human security ideas since the 1940s, giving
special emphasis to its role in extending the notion of security to include
development, economic, environmental, and other issues in the 1990s.
Responds to the arguments of Keith Griffin's "Economic Globalization and Institutions of Global Governance," (Development and Change, 2003). While there is agreement concerning the need for global ...governance for economic globalization, there are disagreements with Griffin's commentary on liberalizing labor movements from the poor countries to the rich & global tax policies to replace foreign aid. 16 References. L. Collins Leigh
Reading Keith Griffin is like listening to a Frenchman presenting his ideas in three parts and ten minutes. It is clear, brilliant, and a delight for the ear, but once it is over you scratch your ...head and wonder what exactly the meaning of it all was. In the recent article by Griffin published in this journal (
Griffin, 2003
), there were two instances where I scratched my head. The first instance was when he pleaded in favour of mobility of the factor labour, not only of labour in general, but of unskilled labour in particular in order to reduce global income inequalities. The second instance occurred when he argued in favour of a compulsory tax and transfer mechanism in replacement of the old‐style foreign aid that is ‘nearly obsolete’.
Aid as a Flight Forward Emmerij, Louis
Development and change,
April 2002, Letnik:
33, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
First reviews the evolving development theory of the last 60 years & deduces its implications for development aid. The observed changes in development thinking explain in no small measure the amazing ...shifts in, & accumulations of, aid priorities. The second part moves from theory to practice by looking into the lessons that can be learned from a concrete development success story & reviewing the present situation of development aid, touching on several points made in Jan Pronk's (2001) article. 47 References. Adapted from the source document.
