Contents

Tables and Illustrations

Preface

Foreword to the Seventh Edition, Michael W. Doyle

Acronyms

Introduction

        The Legal Foundations of Sovereignty

        State Sovereignty

        Changing Raisons d’État

        The United Nations: Actor or Institutional Framework?

        UN Politics

        Notes

PART ONE

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY


  1    The Theory of UN Collective Security

        Collective Security

        The United Nations and Security: Some Basics

        Regional Arrangements

        Straying from the Ideal

        Notes

  2    UN Security Efforts During the Cold War

        The Early Years: Palestine, Korea, Suez, the Congo

        Understanding Peacekeeping

        “Chapter Six and a Half” on Hold, 1978–1988

        Economic Sanctions

        Notes

  3    UN Security Operations After the Cold War, 1988–1998

        The First UN Military Operations After the End of the Cold War, 1988–1993

        The Rebirth of Peacekeeping

        Moving Toward the Next Generation

        Moving Toward Enforcement

        Nonforcible Sanctions in the Post–Cold War Era: Humanitarian Dilemmas

        Operational Quandaries: Cambodia, the Former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti

        Conclusion

        Notes

  4    Evolving Security Operations: Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Sudan, Côte d’Ivoire, Libya, and Syria

        Using Military Force for Human Protection Purposes

        Implications for the UN’s Security Efforts

        The Crisis in the Balkans

        Turmoil in Timor-Leste (East Timor)

        Reestablishing Stability in Sierra Leone

        Lebanon—Again

        Darfur, Sudan

        Côte d’Ivoire

        Libya

        Syria

        Conclusion: Whither the Responsibility to Protect?

        Notes

  5    The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

        After September 11, What’s New?

        Political Challenges

        The Challenges of Reform

        The 2005 World Summit

        Strengthening the Secretariat

        Strengthening the Role of Women

        Explaining Change

        Notes

PART TWO

HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS


  6    The United Nations, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Affairs

        The Theory

        Understanding Rights

        Basic Norms in the UN Era

        Core Norms Beyond the Charter

        Supplementing the Core

        Notes

  7    The United Nations and Applying Human Rights Standards

        Security Council

        General Assembly

        International Criminal Court

        Office of the Secretary-General

        High Commissioner for Human Rights

        Commission on Human Rights, 1946–2006

        Human Rights Council, 2006–Present

        Supplemental Human Rights Bodies

        Human Rights and Development

        Emergency Assistance

        Notes

  8    Change, the United Nations, and Human Rights

        More on Raisons d’État

        State Coalitions

        Nonstate Actors

        Theories of Change

        Notes

PART THREE

SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT


  9    Theories of Development at the United Nations

        The Politics of Changing Theories

        Notes

10    Sustainable Development as Process: UN Organizations and Norms

        Understanding the Organizational Chart: Coordination, Again

        Particular Contributions to Sustainable Development

        The World Bank, IMF, and WTO

        Norm Creation and Coherence: A History of Ideas

        The UN’s Sustainable Human Development Model

        Notes

11    The UN and Development in a Globalizing World

        Globalization

        The MDG Strategy

        Implementing the MDGs

        A Global Partnership for Development

        Explaining Change

        Notes

        Conclusion: Learning from Change

        Measuring Change

        Learning Lessons?

        Articulation and Aggregation of Interests

        Rule Making

        Applying Rules

        Some Final Thoughts

        Notes

Appendix A: The United Nations System

Appendix B: Concise List of Internet Sites Relevant to the United Nations

Appendix C: Charter of the United Nations

Appendix D: United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

About the Book and Authors

Index