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International Organizations : Perspectives on Governance in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN: 9780130454270 | 0130454273
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2003

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SummaryTable of Contents
For undergraduate and graduate courses in International Organizations, International Relations, and International Relations Theory. Along with a comprehensive overview of International Organizations, this text examines the principles and policies of these organizations from the mainstream approaches of Realism and Liberalism and the critical approaches of Marxism and Feminism. Using actual case studies, it challenges students to critically compare and contrast their own assumptions against widely-held and competing world views, enhancing unders... MORE
Prefacevii
Introduction
1(18)
Prior Studies of International Organizations: An Overview
2(3)
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Organization of the Text
5(14)
International Organizations: Nuts and Bolts
19(20)
Intergovernmental Organizations
19(11)
The Organization of Islamic Conference
30(3)
Nongovernmental Organizations
33(3)
Multinational Corporations
36(2)
Conclusion
38(1)
Mainstream Approaches
39(31)
Realism
39(15)
Liberalism
54(16)
Critical Approaches
70(27)
Marxism
70(15)
Feminism
85(12)
International Security
97(31)
The United Nations
98(6)
Case Study 1: The Persian Gulf Crisis
104(12)
The Security Council and Iraq after the Gulf War
116(1)
Case Study 2: Srebrenica 1995
117(9)
Security Council Reforms
126(1)
Conclusion
127(1)
Regional Security
128(27)
Post-World War II Security Alliances
129(1)
Nato: History, Membership, and Structure
129(6)
Case Study 3: NATO Expansion
135(8)
NATO after the Balkans
143(2)
The Arab League
145(1)
Case Study 4: Palestinian Uprising 2000
146(7)
The Israeli-Palestinian Crisis after September 11
153(2)
Trade
155(22)
The History of International Trade
155(4)
The World Trade Organization (WTO)
159(3)
Multinational Corporations (MNCs)
162(1)
Case Study 5: The U.S. Clean Air Act
163(5)
Challenges for the WTO
168(2)
Case Study 6: Genetically Modified Foods and Organisms
170(6)
Conclusion
176(1)
Development
177(31)
What Is Development?
177(3)
Debt
180(1)
The World Bank Group
181(3)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
184(2)
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
186(3)
The UN Development Program (UNDP)
189(1)
Case Study 7: The Mexican Peso Crisis
190(9)
Contagion?
199(1)
Case Study 8: Indonesia
200(7)
Conclusion
207(1)
The Environment
208(26)
The Tragedy of the Commons
208(3)
Environmental Problems
211(1)
The Stockholm Conference (1972)
212(1)
The UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
213(1)
Efforts to Protect Biodiversity
214(1)
The Vienna Convention of the Protection of the Ozone and the Montreal Protocol (1985)
215(1)
The Rio Conference
216(2)
Case Study 9: Global Warming
218(9)
Global Warming: A Postscript
227(1)
Case Study 10: Whaling
228(5)
Conclusion
233(1)
Social and Humanitarian Issues
234(27)
Refugees
234(3)
Major Human Rights Agreements
237(2)
UN Agencies and Human Rights
239(2)
Regional Human Rights Accords and Agencies
241(1)
NGOs and Human Rights
242(2)
Humanitarian Intervention
244(3)
Case Study 11: Rwanda
247(6)
Case Study 12: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
253(7)
Conclusion
260(1)
Global Governance in 2075
261(46)
A Realist Cut
261(5)
A Liberal Cut
266(3)
A Marxist Cut
269(3)
A Feminist Cut
272(1)
Conclusion
273(1)
Appendices
Appendix A: Covenant of the League of Nations
274(9)
Appendix B: Charter of the United Nations
283(19)
Appendix C: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
302(4)
Appendix D: Purposes of the International Monetary Fund
306(1)
Bibliography307(14)
Index321

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