The United Nations of the Future: Globalization with a Human Face

***Recipient of the 2007 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD from Choice***

The sixtieth anniversary of the UN again led to a lot of discussion about the organization, and rightly so. At the same time the debate was not very balanced, emphasizing the shortcomings of the organization, but neglecting the fact that it is often active in situations which are beyond the control of all its member states, i.e., in "messy situations" where it can do hardly any good. In this book, the authors concentra...