Do we require the United Nations? Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental company? And where could it be had the UN’s member states and staff performed better? These essential questions are checked out by the leading expert of UN history and politics, Thomas G. Weiss, in this hard-hitting, reliable book. While counterfactuals are frequently dismissed as scholastic contrivances, they can serve to focus the mind; and here, Weiss utilizes them to competently show the pluses and minuses of multilateral cooperation. He is not shy about UN achievements and failures drawn from its concepts and operations in its 3 substantive pillars of activities: international peace and security; human rights and humanitarian action; and sustainable advancement. But, he argues, the inward-looking and populist motions in electoral politics worldwide make robust multilateralism more not less engaging. The selection of António Guterres as the ninth UN secretary-general need to revive crucial considering the potential for worldwide cooperation. There is a desperate requirement to renew and update rather than jettison the United Nations in reacting to hazards from climate modification to pandemics, from proliferation to terrorism. Weiss informs you why and how.
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