Since the end of the Cold War, international organisations have assumed a greater importance on the world stage. The United Nations has played a key role in all of the major security issues during this period - increasingly called upon to address other global problems such as poverty and international crime - while the European Union has created a single currency and moved towards the adoption of a constitution. The growing significance of the World Trade Organisation and other economic institutions has led some to talk of the emergence of a structure of global governance; and international non-governmental organisations and social movements are now widely seen as forming a kind of global civil society that both challenges and participates in these developments.
Building on the success of the previous edition (Versailles to Maastricht: International Organisation in the Twentieth Century), this book is a valuable introduction to the complex history of modern international organisation. David Armstrong, Lorna Lloyd and John Redmond:
- Pay close attention to the League of Nations, the UN and the EU.
- Offer chapters on the new regionalism, global governance and international regimes and global civil society.
- Adopt a thematic and analytical approach to the subject.
- Provide a concise factual account of the rise of the international organisation.
Autorentext
DAVID ARMSTRONG is Professor of International Relations at the University of Exeter, UK.
Inhalt
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Preface
The Rise of the International Organisation
The League of Nations
The American-led, Cold War United Nations: 1945-1960
The Third World UN: 1960-1980
A Period of Crisis: The UN in the 1980s
The New World Disorder: The UN and the Maintenance of International Peace
The Post-Cold War UN
The European Community, 1945-1969: Origins and Beginnings
The European Community, 1970-1985: Turbulence, Europessimism and Eurosclerosis Widening at a Cost?
The European Community, 1985-1992: From Community to Union Deepening Dominates While Widening Waits?
The European Union, 1993-2003: Deepening and Widening?
The New Regionalism
Towards Global Governance?
The Emergence of Global Civil Society
Bibliography
Index.