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UN Ideas That Changed the World

Thomas G Weiss author Richard Jolly author Louis Emmerij author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:1st Sep '09

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How UN ideas are changing the world

Assesses the development and implementation of UN ideas regarding sustainable economic development and human security, and also applies lessons learned to suggest ways in which the United Nations can play a fuller role in confronting the challenges of human survival with dignity in the 21st century.

Ideas and concepts have been a driving force in human progress, and they may be the most important legacy of the United Nations. UN ideas have set past, present, and future international agendas in many global economic and social arenas and have also led to initiatives and actions that have improved the quality of human life. This capstone volume draws upon findings of the other 14 books in the acclaimed United Nations Intellectual History Project Series. The authors not only assess the development and implementation of UN ideas regarding sustainable economic development and human security, but also apply lessons learned to suggest ways in which the United Nations can play a fuller role in confronting the challenges of human survival with dignity in the 21st century.

A telling account of ideas in action.

* The New York Review of Books *

As the book makes clear, the UN is important as a site—or as a sort of ecological environment—for not just the exercise of power but also the exercise of imagination.November/December 2009

* Foreign Affairs *

A telling account of ideas in action.May 27, 2010

* The New York Review of Boo

ISBN: 9780253221186

Dimensions: 235mm x 155mm x 24mm

Weight: unknown

336 pages