1st Edition
The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015
Introduction
The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015: past as prelude?
Thomas G. Weiss and Pallavi Roy
PART 1. IDEAS AND SHIFTING POWER RELATIONS
1. Idea-shift: how ideas from the rest are reshaping global order
Amitav Acharya
2. Emerging powers and the creation of the UN: three ships of Theseus
Adriana Erthal Abdenur
PART 2. INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
3. The revolt against the West: intervention and sovereignty
Adekeye Adebajo
4. The South and disarmament at the UN
Dan Plesch
5. Arab agency and the UN project: the League of Arab States between universality and regionalism
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
PART THREE. HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT
6. Normative human rights cascades, North and South
Bertrand G. Ramcharan
7. Managing the global commons: common good or common sink?
Nico Schrijver
8. Developing countries and the right to development: a retrospective and prospective African view
Fantu Cheru
9. Economic growth, the UN and the Global South: an unfulfilled promise
Pallavi Roy
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. He was named 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and 2016 Distinguished IO Scholar by the International Studies Association.
Pallavi Roy is a lecturer in International Economics at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London.
