Routledge Research on the United Nations (UN)
Norm Change in International Relations: Linked Ecologies in UN Peacekeeping Operations
1st Edition
By John Karlsrud
June 28, 2018
In recent decades there have been several constructivist scholars who have looked at how norms change in international relations. However few have taken a closer look at the particular strategies that are employed to further change, or looked at the common factors that have been in play in these ...
Reforming UN Decision-Making Procedures: Promoting a Deliberative System for Global Peace and Security
1st Edition
By Martin Daniel Niemetz
October 26, 2017
The institutional procedures for the UN’s decision-making on issues of global peace and security, first and foremost the Security Council (SC), were conceived with the objective of enabling a swift but internationally coordinated response to irregular situations of crises. Today, however, the UN is...
The UN International Criminal Tribunals: Transition without Justice?
1st Edition
By Klaus Bachmann, Aleksandar Fatić
October 26, 2017
Both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) are now about to close. Bachmann and Fatic look back at the achievements and shortcomings of both tribunals from an interdisciplinary perspective informed by ...
Chairing Multilateral Negotiations: The Case of the United Nations
1st Edition
By Spyros Blavoukos, Julie Mertus
September 23, 2013
This book examines the important role of the chairmanship office in multilateral negotiations within the UN setting. Although chairmanship is a generic feature of international politics, negotiations, and decision-making, it has been scarcely researched. The neutrality and impartiality assumptions ...