An edition of International Organizations: perspectives on governance in the twenty-first century
(1999)
International organizations
perspectives on governance in the twenty-first century
3rd ed.
by Kelly-Kate S. Pease
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Prior studies of international organizations: an overview
Organization of the text
International organizations: nuts and bolts
Intergovernmental organizations
The organization of Islamic Conference
Nongovernmental organizations
Multinational corporations
Conclusion
Mainstream approaches
Realism
Liberalism
Critical approaches
Marxism
Feminism
International security
The United Nations
Case study 1: The Persian Gulf crisis
The Security Council and Iraq after the Gulf War
Case study 2: Srebrenica 1995
Security Council reforms
Conclusion
Regional security
Post-World War II security alliances
NATO: history, membership, and structure
Case study 3: NATO expansion
NATO after the Balkans
The Arab League
Case study 4: Palestinian uprising 2000
The Israeli-Palestinian crisis after September 11
Trade
The history of international trade
The World Trade Organization (WTO)
Multinational corporations (MNCS)
Case study 5: The U.S. Clean Air Act
Challenges for the WTO
Case study 6: Genetically modified foods and organisms
Conclusion
Development
What is development?
Debt
The World Bank group
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
The UN Development Program (UNDP)
Case study 7: The Mexican peso crisis
Contagion?
Case study 8: Indonesia
Conclusion
The environment
The tragedy of the commons
Environmental problems
The Stockholm conference (1972)
The UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
Efforts to protect biodiversity
The Vienna convention of the protection of the ozone and the Montreal protocol (1985)
The Rio Conference
Case study 9: Global warming
Global warming: a postscript
Case study 10: Whaling
Conclusion
Social and humanitarian issues
Refugees
Major human rights agreements
UN agencies and human rights
Regional human rights accords and agencies
NGOs and human rights
Humanitarian intervention
Case study 11: Rwanda
Case study 12: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Conclusion
Global governance in 2075
A realist cut
A liberal cut
A marxist cut
A feminist cut
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix A: covenant of the League of Nations
Appendix B: Charter of the United Nations
Appendix C: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Appendix D: Purposes of the International Monetary Fund
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-334) and index.
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