The "Third" United Nations

Global Governance

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-142

  Weiss, Thomas G ^a,b,c   Carayannis, Tatiana ^a,d   Jolly, Richard ^a,e  

^a Department of Political Science ^*

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UN Intellectual History Project

^d SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intellectual history; International secretariats; Networks; Nongovernmental organizations; United Nations

Indexed keywords

EID: 59549097967     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01501008     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss, The Power of UN Ideas: Lessons from the First Sixty Years, available along with other information at www.unhistory.org.
2. See also Robert J. Berg, "The UN Intellectual History Project," Global Governance 12, no. 4 (2006): 325-341. For the capstone book in the series, see Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss, UN Ideas That Changed the World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2009).
3. Inis L. Claude Jr., Swords Into Plowshares: The Problems and Prospects of International Organization (New York: Random House, 1956);
4. Inis L. Claude Jr., "Peace and Security: Prospective Roles for the Two United Nations," Global Governance 2, no. 3 (1996): 289-298.
5. Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996);
6. Robert C. Cox, The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997).
7. Barry Carin, Richard Higgott, Jan Aart Scholte, Gordon Smith, and Diane Stone, "Global Governance: Looking Ahead," Global Governance 12, no. 1 (2006): 1-6. Other authors have begun to speak of "new multilateralism": Michael G. Schechter, ed., Innovation in Multilateralism (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999);
8. "complex multilateralism": Robert O'Brien, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte, and Marc Williams, Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000);
9. "polylateralism": Geoffrey Wiseman, "'Polylateralism' and New Modes of Global Dialogue," Discussion Paper No. 59 (Leicester: Leicester Diplomatic Studies Programme, 1999);
10. and "plurilateralism": Philip G. Cerny, "Plurilateralism: Structural Differentiation and Functional Conflict in the Post-Cold War World Order," Millennium: Journal of International Studies 22, no. 1 (1993): 27-51.
11. Thomas G. Weiss and Leon Gordenker, eds., NGOs, the UN, and Global Governance (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1996);
12. Peter Willetts, ed., The "Conscience" of the World: The Influence of Non-Governmental Organisations in the UN System (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1996);
13. Bob Deacon, Global Social Policy and Governance (London: Sage, 2007);
14. Jan Aart Scholte, Civil Society Voices and the International Monetary Fund (Ottawa: North-South Institute, 2002).
15. Wolfgang R. Reinicke, Global Public Policy: Governing Without Government? (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998);
16. Wolfgang R. Reinicke, Francis Deng, Thorsten Benner, and Jan Martin Witte, Critical Choices: The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global Governance (Ottawa: IDRC Publishers, 2000). Jan Aart Scholte has suggested that it may be more useful to distinguish between "conformist, " "rejectionist," "reformist," and " transformist" orientations rather than focus on sectors, in Democratizing the Global Economy: The Role of Civil Society (Coventry: Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, 2004).
17. Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, eds., Transnational Relations and World Politics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971).
18. Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, "Political Approaches," in Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws, eds., The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 42.
19. Dag Hammarskjöld, "The International Civil Servant in Law and in Fact," reprinted by permission of Clarendon Press, Oxford, quotes at pp. 329 and 349.
20. Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly, UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005).
21. See also The Complete Oral History Transcripts from UN Voices, CD-ROM (New York: United Nations Intellectual History Project, 2007).
22. Thant Myint-U and Amy Scott, The UN Secretariat: A Brief History (1945-2006) (New York: International Peace Academy, 2007), pp. 126-128.
23. Devaki Jain, Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005).
24. John G. Ruggie, "global-governance.net: The Global Compact as Learning Network," Global Governance 7, no. 4 (2001): 371-378.
25. See also Tagi Sagafi-nejad, in collaboration with John Dunning, The UN and Transnational Corporations: From Code of Conduct to Global Compact (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008).
26. Weiss et al., UN Voices, p. 387.
27. UNRISD, UN World Summits and Civil Society Engagement, UNRISD Research and Policy Brief 6 (Geneva: UNRISD, 2007), p. 2.
28. See also Michael G. Schechter, United Nations Global Conferences (London: Routledge, 2005).
29. Steve Charnowitz, "Two Centuries of Participation: NGOs and International Governance," Michigan Journal of International Law 18, no. 2 (1997): 183-286.
30. Stephen Schlesinger, Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations (Boulder: Westview, 2003), p. 122.
31. Moisés Naírn, "Democracy's Dangerous Impostors," Wall Street Journal, 21 April 2007.
32. "INGO Accountability Charter," available at www.ingoaccountabilitycharter.org.
33. Lester M. Salamon et al., Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, 1999).
34. Union of International Associations, "International Organizations by Type (Table 1)," in Yearbook of International Organizations, available at www.uia.org//uiastats/stbv196.htm.
35. Peter Waterman, "Global Civil Society: A Concept Worth Defining; A Terrain Worth Disputing," available at www.nigd.org/docs/ GlobalCivilSocietyPeter WatermanNovember2005.
36. "Overview by Cyril Ritchie, Secretary of CONGO," available at www.ngo congo.org/index.php?what=doc&id=1121.
37. W. Andy Knight, S. Neil MacFarlane, and Thomas G. Weiss, "Swan Song," Global Governance 11, no. 4 (2005): 527-535;
38. Leon Gordenker and Christer Jöns-son, "Knowledge," in The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, pp. 82-94.
39. Diane Stone, Global Knowledge Networks and International Development (London: Routledge, 2005);
40. Janice Gross Stein, Richard Stren, Joy Fitzgibbon, and Melissa MacLean, Networks of Knowledge: Collaborative Innovation in International Learning (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001).
41. Emanuel Adler and Peter M. Haas, "Epistemic Communities, World Order, and the Creation of a Reflective Research Program," International Organization 46, no. 1 (1992): 367-390.
42. For example, Leon Gordenker, Roger A. Coate, Christer Jönsson, and Peter Söderholm, International Cooperation in Response to AIDS (London: Pinter, 1995);
43. Peter M. Haas, Robert O. Keohane, and Marc A. Levy, eds., Institutions for the Earth: Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992).
44. Peter A. Hall, "Introduction," in Peter A. Hall, ed., The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynsianism Across Nations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), p. 26.
45. Louis Emmery, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss, Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), pp. 26-42.
46. Weiss et al., UN Voices, p. 373.
47. Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and ten reports from thematic task forces, available at www.un millenniumproject.org.
48. John Toye and Richard Toye, The UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance, and Development (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), pp. 110-136.
49. Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng, Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998);
50. Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng, eds., The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998).
51. International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The Responsibility to Protect (Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2001).
52. Kofi A. Annan, The Question of Intervention: Statements by the Secretary - General of the United Nations (New York: United Nations, 2000).
53. Thomas G. Weiss, Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (Cambridge: Polity, 2007).
54. Don Hubert, The Landmine Ban: A Case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy (Providence, RI: Watson Institute, 2000), Occasional Paper No. 42;
55. Richard Price, "Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Landmines," International Organization 52, no. 3 (1998): 613-644;
56. Motoko Mekata, "Building Partnerships Toward a Common Goal: Experiences of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines," in Ann M. Florini, ed., The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment, 2000), pp. 143-176.
57. Fanny Benedetti and John L. Washburn, "Drafting the International Criminal Court Treaty," Global Governance 5, no. 1 (1999): 1-38.
58. Craig N. Murphy, The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 232-262.
59. Ramesh Thakur, Andrew F. Cooper, and John English, International Commissions and the Power of Ideas (Tokyo: UN University Press, 2005).
60. Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New World Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), p. 5.
61. Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Without Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (New York: Cornell University Press, 1998), p. 1.
62. Matthew Evangelista, Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999).
63. Stein et al., Networks of Knowledge, p. 2.
64. Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
65. Tatiana Carayannis, "The Complex Wars of the Congo: Towards a New Analytic Approach," Journal of Asian and African Studies 38, no. 2-3 (2003): 236.
66. Barnett and Finnemore, "Political Approaches," p. 54.
67. Conor Cruise O'Brien, United Nations: Sacred Drama (London: Hutchinson & Company, 1968).
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69. Foreign Policy, no. 132 (September-October 2002): 28-46.
70. Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. Weiss, The UN and Global Governance: An Unfinished Journey (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009).