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Emerging Powers and the UN: What Kind of Development Partnership? book cover

1st Edition

Emerging Powers and the UN What Kind of Development Partnership?

Edited By Thomas Weiss, Adriana Abdenur Copyright 2016
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge
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The post-2015 sustainable development goals and the changing environment for development cooperation requires a renewed and transformed UN system. In line with their increasing significance as economic powers, a growing number of emerging countries will play an expanded role in the UN system, which could take the form of growing financial contributions, greater presence in governance, higher... Read more

Introduction: emerging powers and the UN – what kind of development partnership? Thomas G. Weiss and Adriana Erthal Abdenur

Part I – Inequalities And Multilateralism: Revisiting The North-South Axis

1. Assessing the G77: 50 years after UNCTAD and 40 years after the NIEO John Toye

2. South–South cooperation and the international development battlefield: between the OECD and the UN Paulo Esteves and Manaíra Assunção

3. How representative are BRICS? Ramesh Thakur

Part II – The Changing Development Cooperation Landscape

4. Financing the UN development system and the future of multilateralism Bruce Jenks

5. Emerging powers at the UN: ducking for cover? Silke Weinlich

6. A changing world: is the UN development system ready? Stephen Browne

7. South–South cooperation and the future of development assistance: mapping actors and options Paolo de Renzio and Jurek Seifert

8. Emerging powers as normative agents: Brazil and China within the UN development system Adriana Erthal Abdenur

9. Emerging powers and the UN development system: canvassing global views Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss

10. War-torn countries, natural resources, emerging-power investors and the UN development system Graciana del Castillo

Biography

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science, and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, USA.

Adriana Erthal Abdenur is Professor of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and General Coordinator of the BRICS Policy Center.

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