1st Edition

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Creating Norms for a Complex World

By J.P. Singh Copyright 2011
192 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book traces the history of UNESCO from its foundational idealism to its current stature as the preeminent international organization for science, education, and culture, building a well rounded understanding of this important organization. The book: provides an overview of the organization and its institutional architecture in the context of its humanistic idealism details the... Read more

1. UNESCO's Organizational History and Structure  2. Prioritizing Education  3. Making Science  4. The Prominence of Culture  5. Debating Global Communication Orders  6. Reflections and Possibilities  

Biography

J. P. Singh is Associate Professor at the graduate program in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University. He is the author of Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010); International Cultural Policies and Power (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); Negotiation and the Global Information Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008); with James N. Rosenau, Information Technologies and Global Politics (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002); and Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications Restructuring (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999).