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Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development book cover

1st Edition

Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development

Edited By Stephen Browne, Thomas G Weiss Copyright 2021
332 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN’s development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an essential contributor to progress and peacebuilding. This handbook explores the activities of the UN development system (UNDS), the largest operational pillar of the organization and arguably the... Read more

Introduction: Development, the Largest of Four UN Functions

Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss

Part One: Realizing the SDGs, Opportunities and Challenges

  1. The UN Development System: Origins, Structure, Status

    2. Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss

  2. The UN and Development: Objectives and Governance

    3. José Antonio Ocampo

  3. Emerging Powers, a Declining West, and Multilateralism

    4. Kishore Mahbubani

  4. Environment and Development in the UN

    5. Maria Ivanova

  5. Gender Equality and the United Nations

    6. Saraswathi Menon

  6. Human Rights and Sustainable Development: Together at Last?

    7. Natalie Samarasinghe

  7. Sustaining Peace and the 2030 Development Agenda

    8. Sigrid Gruener and Henrik Hammergren

  8. Sustaining Peace: Changing Architecture and Priorities for UN Peacebuilding

    9. Gert Rosenthal

  9. What Does "Leave No One Behind" Mean for Humanitarians?

    10. Peter J. Hoffman

  10. Migration and Development in the UN Global Compacts

    11. Nicholas R. Micinski

    Part Two: Resources, Partnerships, and Management

  11. Funding the UN: Support or Constraint?

    12. Max-Otto Baumann and Silke Weinlich

  12. Private Finance and Partnerships at the UN

    13. Barbara Adams

  13. The "Third UN": Civil Society and the World Organization

    14. Roberto Bissio

  14. The UN and World Bank: Collaboration toward Stronger Global Governance?

    15. Richard Jolly

  15. The WTO, the UN, and the Future of Global Development

    16. Rorden Wilkinson

  16. UN Accountability: From Frameworks to Evidence and Results

    17. Richard Golding

  17. Towards Better Knowledge Management in the UN

    18. Steve Glovinski

    Part Three: Imagining the Future of the UN in Development

  18. Change in the UN Development System: Theory and Practice

    19. John Hendra and Ingrid Fitzgerald

  19. Looking to the UN’s Future

    20. Carsten Staur

  20. Reforming the UN and Governing the Globe

    21. Georgios Kostakos

  21. Reflections: Prospects for the UN Development System

Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss

Biography

Stephen Browne is Co-Director of the Future of the UN Development System (FUNDS); Senior Fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York; visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute, Geneva; and former Deputy Executive Director of the International Trade Centre, Geneva.

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; he is also Co-Chair, Cultural Heritage at Risk Project, J. Paul Getty Trust; Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and Eminent Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Korea.

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