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  • Empowering the UN Security Council

    Reforms to Address Modern Threats

    Edited by Mona Ali Khalil, Floriane Lavaud ...
    Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges and opportunities associated with empowering the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to fulfil its primary responsibility: to maintain international peace and security. Across ten chapters, this timely book addresses several areas of possible reform, without amending the UN ... Read more

    $99.19 CAD

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  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jussi M. Hanhimaki ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jussi M. Hanhimaki ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    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 Hanhimäki 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 ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Unsilenced

    Unmasking the United Nations’ Culture of Cover-Ups, Corruption and Impunity

    by Rasna Warah, Aicha Elbasri ...
    In a world experiencing increasing conflicts, terrorism and displacement, many people are wondering what the United Nations the organization established in 1945 to save future generations from the scourge of war should or could have done to prevent these disasters from escalating. UNsilenced shows that, in fact, the UN has remained a bystander in many of these conflicts and that peace-building ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Shaping the Humanitarian World

    by Peter Walker, Daniel Maxwell ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    Providing a critical introduction to the notion of humanitarianism in global politics, tracing the concept from its origins to the twenty-first century, this book examines how the so called international community works in response to humanitarian crises and the systems that bind and divide them.By tracing the history on international humanitarian action from its early roots through the birth of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Essential UN

    by United Nations DPI ...
    Everything you always wanted to know about the United Nations in one book! This primer to the United Nations is designed for all global citizens. It covers the history of the UN, what it does and how it does it. As the world’s only truly global organization,the United Nations is where countries meet to address universal issues that cannot be resolved by any one of them acting alone. From ... Read more

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  • No-Nonsense Guide to the United Nations

    by Maggie Black ...
    Series Book 24 - No-Nonsense Guides
    In the first book to distill the entire history of the United Nations into one accessible volume, Maggie Black explains how this complex organization works. In doing so, she explores its successes, failings, and limitations.This No-Nonsense Guide addresses the U.N.’s creation and early history, how it is structured, and whether it can effectively fulfill its mandate. The author considers ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Democracy in Retreat

    The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

    by Joshua Kurlantzick ...
    Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Economic Sanctions in International Law and Practice

    Edited by Masahiko Asada ...
    Providing perspectives from a range of experts, including international lawyers, political scientists, and practitioners, this book assesses current theory and practice of economic sanctions, discussing current legal and political challenges faced by the international community.It examines both the implementation of sanctions by major powers – the United States, the European Union, and Japan – as ... Read more

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  • Sanctions

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Bruce W. Jentleson ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To KnowRG
    A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another. It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another imposition of sanctions by one country on another. The United States has sanctions against more than 30 countries. Russia has repeatedly imposed sanctions ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It

    by Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Series series What's Wrong?
    Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century’s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today’s UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9 ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The State of Peacebuilding in Africa

    Lessons Learned for Policymakers and Practitioners

    Edited by Terence McNamee, Monde Muyangwa ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in Africa over the past half century. The core themes addressed by the contributors include conflict prevention, mediation, and management; post-conflict reconstruction, justice and ... Read more

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