Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION
Charter of the United Nations - United Nations
The Development of International Organization in the Nineteenth Century - Inis L. Claude, Jr
From League of Nations to United Nations - Leland M. Goodrich
FDR′s Five Policemen: Creating the United Nations - Stephen Schlesinger
Victories on the International Front - Dorothy Kenyon
Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time - Ralph Bunche
Speech to the General Assembly, 11 November 1952 - Vijara Lakshmi Pandit
The Commonwealth in the United Nations - Gwendolen M. Carter
The Role of the United Nations in World Affairs - Geoffrey Goodwin
Speech to the UN General Assembly, 6 October 1963 - Haile Selassie
Apartheid and the United Nations - Ram Malhotra
The Impact of African States on the United Nations - David Kay
The United Nations and the International System - Oran R. Young
Promoting Nondiscrimination against Women: The UN Commission on the Status of Women - Margaret E. Galey
Kofi Annan Unsettles People, as He Believes UN Should Do - Barbara Crossette
United Nations - Madeleine K. Albright
In Larger Freedom – The Changing Role of the United Nations - Kofi Annan
The United Nations - Jeffrey Herbst, Roméo Dallaire, and Peter W. Galbraith
Dialectics of a Global Constitution: The Struggle over the UN Charter - Michael Doyle
The Enduring Myth of the UN - Natalie Samarasinghe
New Histories of the United Nations - Sunil Amrith and Glenda Sluga
VOLUME TWO: MACHINERY
UN System Organization Chart - United Nations
The Forgotten Design for the System - Erskine Childers and Brian Urquhart
International Organizations: Then and Now - José E. Alvarez
General Assembly - M. J. Peterson
Revitalization of the General Assembly - Lydia Swart
The Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions - Michael Wood
Assessing the UN Security Council: a Concert Perspective - David Bosco
The Security Council: Behind the Scenes - Linda Melvern
Developments at the United Nations - Written Evidence Submitted to the UK Iraq Inquiry - Jeremy Greenstock
Does the United Nations Security Council Enhance or Undermine International Law? - Kishore Mahbubani
The Influence of States and Groups of States on and in the Security Council and General Assembly, 1980–94 - Sally Morphet
Economic and Social Council - Gert Rosenthal
Implementing Rio +20: ECOSOC′s New Role and its Old Culture - Harris Gleckman
The United Nations and Colonial Development - Annette Baker Fox
The Commonwealth and the United Nations Trusteeship of Non-Self-Governing Peoples - L.P. Singh
The Role of the International Court of Justice In the Global Community - Christopher Greenwood
Departing Thoughts on the International Court of Justice - Rosalyn Higgins
Post-Cold War Justice: The UN Ad Hoc Tribunals, Mixed Courts and the ICC - Richard J. Goldstone and Adam M. Smith
Secretariat – Independence and Reform - James O. C. Jonah
The Office of the Secretary-General and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security - Nabil Elaraby
Strategic Planning in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General - Abiodun Williams
The Next Secretary-General: How to Fill a Job with No Description - Brian Urquhart
Breaking Barriers? Women’s Representation and Leadership at the United Nations - Kirsten Haack
Negotiating the UN’s budget: Multilateralism in Action - Hannah Davies
VOLUME THREE: ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPS
Collective Legitimization as a Political Function of the United Nations - Inis L. Claude, Jr
International Organization: A State of the Art and Art of the State - Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerard Ruggie
United Nations “Policy”: An Argument with Three Illustrations - Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. Weiss
Sovereignty as Responsibility” to the “Responsibility to Protect" - Francis M. Deng
Sovereignty in the Balance: Claims and Bargains at the UN Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights and Women - Kathryn Hochstetler, Ann Marie Clark and Elisabeth J. Friedman
The United Nations as a Political System: A Practicing Political Scientist’s Insights into UN Politics - J.J. Kirkpatrick
Facing 21st Century Threats: Why America Needs the UN - Susan Rice
The Centrality of the United Nations in Russian Foreign Policy - Ritsa Panagiotou
Middle Range Powers in Global Governance - Hongying Wang and Erik French
Challenges Facing Small States at the UN - Vanu Gopala Menon
How Goliath Slew David at the United Nations: A South Asian Perspective - Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury
The “Third Force” and the United Nations - Khalid I Babaa
The North-South Divide at the United Nations: Fading at Last? - David M. Malone and Lotta Hagman
Islamist Perceptions of the United Nations and its Peacekeeping Missions: Some Preliminary Findings - Brynjar Lia
The Origins and Development of UN Electoral Groups - Sam Daws
Informal Groups of States and the UN Security Council - Jochen Prantl
UN Elections: Power, Influence, Reputation - Anne Anderson
Eyes on the Prize: The Quest for Nonpermanent Seats on the UN Security Council - David M. Malone
The United Nations and Regional Organizations: The Need For Clarification and Cooperation - Tania Felicio
The UN and the African Union’s Security Architecture: Defining an Emerging Partnership? - Kwesi Aning
Nongovernmental Organizations in the United Nations System: The Emerging Role of International Civil Society - Dianne Otto
The Global Compact: Selected Experiences and Reflections - Georg Kell
VOLUME FOUR: A UN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Security, Solidarity, and Sovereignty: The Grand Themes of UN Reform - Ann-Marie Slaughter
How Not to Reform the United Nations - Ed Luck
Grand Goals, Modest Results: The UN in Search of Reform - Jeffrey Laurenti
UN Transformation in an Era of Soft Balancing - Stephen John Stedman
The John W. Holmes Lecture: Can the UN Be Reformed? - M. Malloch Brown
Reforming the United Nations - John Bolton and Richard Holbrooke
Fundamental UN Reform – A Non-Starter or Not? - Thomas G. Weiss
Reforming the United Nations - Prakash Shah
Organizational Culture, System Evolution and the United Nations of the 21st Century - Alisa Clarke
Great Expectations: UN Reform and the Role of the Secretary-General - Simon Chesterman
Management Reform in the United Nations: Between Politics and Efficiency - Joachim Müller
Security Council Reform: The Dual Risks - Sam Daws
Myths of Membership: The Politics of Legitimation in UN Security Council Reform - Ian Hurd
More Transparency and More Participation: The Informal Reform of the Working Methods of the UN Security Council - Helmut Volger
Reforming the Working Methods of the UN Security Council: the next ACT - Volker Lehmann
Making Intervention Work: Improving the UN’s Ability to Act - Morton Abramowitz and Thomas Pickering
The UN Security Council and Human Rights: State Sovereignty and Human Dignity - David P. Forsythe
United Nations: New Issues, New Ideas, Not Enough Financing - Vikas Nath
Why We – Especially the West – Need the UN Development System - Kishore Mahbubani
The Way Forward for the WTO: Reforming the Decision-Making Process - Memory Dube
An Historical Perspective - H.W. Singer
The Vision and the Reality - Mahbub ul Haq
The UN and the Financial Crisis: Breathing Life into Bretton Woods - Natalie Samarasinghe
From Keeping Peace to Building Peace: Proposal for a Revitalized United Nations Trusteeship Council - Saira Mohamed
From UN Commission on Human Rights to UN Human Rights Council: One Step Forwards or Two Steps Sideways? - Nazila Ghanea
(Re)generating Peacekeeping Authority: The Brahimi Process - Silke Weinlich
The New United Nations “Gender Architecture”: The Creation of UN Women - Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin
The UN in Practice - David Hannay
The Changing Humanitarian Landscape - Sara Pantuliano
Can the UN Ever Really Be Neutral? - John Holmes
Address to the General Assembly – 24 September 2013 - Ban Ki-moon
VOLUME FIVE: CONFLICT & CRISIS
The Evolving Role of the United Nations in International Peace and Security - Marrack Goulding
An Agenda for Peace: Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace-keeping - Boutros Boutros-Ghali
When Can Nations Go to War? Politics and Change in the UN Security System - Charlotte Ku
Recommendations of the Secretary-General′s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change: A Member′s Perspective - David Hannay
A Shared Responsibility for a More Secure World - Ramesh Thakur
The John Holmes Memorial Lecture: What Price Security? - Margaret Joan Anstee
Human Protection and the 21st Century United Nations - Ban Ki-moon
The UN as Conflict Mediator: First amongst Equals or the Last Resort? - Thant Myint-U
The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes - Ian Brownlie
Building Peace through the Political Processes of the United Nations - Courtney B. Smith
The Security Council and the Rule of Law: An Overview - Christine Gray
The Fall of Saddam Hussein: Security Council Mandates and Preemptive Self-Defense - Ruth Wedgwood
The Evolution of Security Council Innovations in Sanctions - Joanna Weschler
UN Peacekeeping: An Overview - Syed Sikander Mehdi
The UN′s Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq - James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, Andrew Rathmell, Brett Steele, Richard Teltschik and Anga Timilsina
Managing Mistrust: An Analysis of Cooperation with UN Peacekeeping in Africa - Andrea Ruggeri, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Hans Dorussen
United Nations Police Evolution, Present Capacity and Future Tasks - William J. Durch
Peacekeeping Effects in South America: Common Experiences and Divergent Effects on Civil–Military Relations - Arturo Sotomayor Velázquez
Not Just a Numbers Game: Increasing Women’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping - Sahana Dharmapuri
Strengthening the Rights of Women for a Stronger Africa - Zainab Hawa Bangura
Protecting Children in Situations of Armed Conflict: Interview with Radhika Coomaraswamy - Radhika Coomaraswamy
The UN at the Peacemaking-Peacebuilding Nexus - Kyle Beardsley
Disarmament: Old Challenges, New Opportunities - Angela Kane
Rethinking the NPT′s Role in Security: 2010 and Beyond - Rebecca Johnson
VOLUME SIX: RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND PROTECTION
The UN′s Human Rights Record: From San Francisco to Vienna and Beyond - Philip Alston
The Question of Domestic Jurisdiction and the Evolution of United Nations Law of Human Rights - Abdulrahim P. Vijapur
Advancing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: The Way Forward - Mary Robinson
An Overview of the Reform of the UN Human Rights Machinery - Françoise Hampson
UN Treaty Bodies and the Human Rights Council - Nigel S. Rodley
“To See Themselves as Others See Them": The Five Permanent Members of the Security Council and the Human Rights Council′s Universal Periodic Review - Rhona Smith
Protection of Human Rights through the Mechanism of UN Special Rapporteurs - Surya P. Subedi
Performance and Challenges of the UN Human Rights Council - Theodor Rathgeber
Beijing, Backlash, and the Future of Women′s Human Rights - Charlotte Bunch
The United Nations, Counter Terrorism, and Human Rights: Institutional Adaption and Embedded Ideas - Rosemary Foot
’New Aid Modalities’: An Opportunity or Threat to Principled Engagement on Human Rights? - Mac Darrow
The UN as a Human Rights Violator? Some Reflections on the United Nations Changing Human Rights Responsibilities - Frédéric Mégret and Florian Hoffmann
The Humanitarian Responsibilities of the United Nations Security Council: Ensuring the Security of the People - Juan Somavia
Deputy Secretary-General’s Press Conference on Rights Up Front - Jan Eliasson
Intervention - Kofi Annan
Humanitarian Intervention: Getting Past the Reefs - Shashi Tharoor and Sam Daws
The Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time Has Come ... and Gone? - Gareth Evans
The Responsibility to Protect: The First Decade - Edward C. Luck
The Relationship Between the ICC and the UN Security Council - Louise Arbour
International Justice and Diplomacy - Fatou Bensouda
Transitional Justice in the Arab Countries: Opportunities and Challenges - Mona Rishmawi
VOLUME SEVEN: POVERTY & DEVELOPMENT
Millennium Development Goals: Milestones on a Long Road - Margaret Anstee
International Norm Dynamics and the "End of Poverty": Understanding the Millennium Development Goals - Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and David Hulme
Global Goals – The UN Experience - Richard Jolly
Millennium Development Goal of Halving Poverty in Asia: Progress, Prospects and Priorities - Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai and Mani Arul Nandhi
UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice - Dharam Ghai
The World Health Organization and Global Smallpox Eradication - S. Bhattacharya
Seven Challenges in International Development Assistance for Health and Ways Forward - Devi Sridhar
The Road Not Taken: International Aid′s Choice of Copenhagen over Beijing - Rosalind Eyben
Gender Justice: The World Bank’s New Approach to the Poor? - Susanne Schech and Sanjugta Vas
The Imposition of a Global Development Architecture: The Example of Microcredit - Heloise Weber
Development Economics in the Wake of the Washington Consensus: From Smith to Smithereens? - Matthew M. Taylor
Africa Does Not Need Aid, but the Opportunity for Fair Trade - Inwani Malweyi
Life after Bali: Renewing the World Trade Negotiating Agenda - Suparna Karmakar
Reimagining the Role of the Private Sector in Development - Homi Kharas
Power Shift: Do We Need Better Global Economic Institutions? - Ngaire Woods
International Humanitarian Crises: Two Decades before and Two Decades Beyond - Randolph Kent
The Helmet and the Hoe: Linkages between United Nations Development Assistance and Conflict Management - Michèle Griffin
Extract from Reforming Development Cooperation at the United Nations: An Analysis of Policy Position and Actions of Key States on Reform Options - Silke Weinlich
Development and the United Nations: Achievements and Challenges for the Future - Lorna Gold and Eileen Connolly
Conflict & Poverty: A Vicious Cycle - Abiodun Williams
A Matter of Justice: Securing Human Rights in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda - Centre for Economic and Social Rights
Gender – Is One Goal Enough? - Sylvia Chant
Sexual and Reproductive Rights at the United Nations: Frustration or Fulfillment? - Alice M. Miller and Mindy J. Roseman
The Politics of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Is Global Partnership Really Working? - Charles Mutasa
"A New Global Partnership”: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development – Executive Summary - United Nations
A Just and Sustainable World - Amina J. Mohammed
VOLUME EIGHT: ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
Resolution XXIII: Problems of the Human Environment - General Assembly of the United Nations
The Stockholm Conference: Where Science and Politics Meet - Maurice F. Strong
Our Common Future Revisited - Gro Harlem Brundtland
The Role of International Forums in the Advancement of Sustainable Development - Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
From Stockholm to New York, via Rio and Johannesburg: Has the Environment Lost Its Way on the Global Agenda? - Paolo Galizzi
The United Nations and Global Energy Governance: Past Challenges, Future Choices - Sylvia I. Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen
Implications for UNEP - Mark Halle, Adil Najam and Christopher Beaton
The Green Economy Post Rio+20 - Edward B. Barbier
The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action and the Future of the Climate Regime - Lavanya Rajamani
Is a Global Agreement the Only Way to Tackle Climate Change? - Achim Steiner and David King
Can Climate Change Negotiations Succeed? - Jon Hovi, Tora Skodvin and Stine Aakre
Emerging Powers, North-South Relations and Global Climate Politics - Andrew Hurrell and Sandeep Sengupta
The Rise of BASIC in UN Climate Change Negotiations - Xinran Qi
The EU’s Role in Climate Change Negotiations: From Leader to ‘Leadiator’ - Karin Bäckstrand and Ole Elgström
Managing Climate Change: The Africa Group in Multilateral Environmental Negotiations - Anesu Makina
The Rio+20 Conference and International Law: Towards a Multi-Layered Multilateralism? - Fabiano de Andrade Correa
International Environmental Governance Reform within the United Nations: Seeking More Sustainability Towards and Beyond Rio + 20 Earth Environment Summit - Sylvestre-José-Tidiane Manga
Institutional Design and UNEP Reform: Historical Insights on Form, Function and Financing - Maria Ivanova
How to Build Sustainable Development Goals: Integrating Human Development and Environmental Sustainability in a New Global Agenda - Claire Melamed and Paul Ladd
Sustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries - Johan Rockström, Jeffrey Sachs, Marcus C. Öhman and Guido Schmidt-Traub
The UN Environment Programme on Climate Change and International Security - United Nations
Climate Justice: Challenge and Opportunity - Mary Robinson