Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword to Spencer Zifcak: United Nations Reform: Heading North or South?; 1 The grand vision; 2 The Security Council; 3 The General Assembly; 4 The Human Rights Council; 5 The use of force; 6 The responsibility to protect; 7 International action to combat terrorism; 8 Explaining what happened; 9 Reforming the United Nations: the NorthSouth impasse; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book evaluates Kofi Annan's endeavor to reform the United Nations, seeking to understand why it was unsuccessful in so many cases, but also how global politics and ideological divisions played so forcefully into the many intra-institutional debates
