Post-2015 UN Development: Making Change Happen? (Global Institutions)

Stephen Browne; Thomas G. Weiss, Eds

ISBN 10: 0415856639 / ISBN 13: 9780415856638

Verlag: Routledge, 2014

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1111190

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Post-2015 UN Development: Making Change Happen? (Global Institutions)
• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0415856639
• ISBN-13: 9780415856638
• Einband: Soft Cover
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Political Science & Sociology

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Based on extensive original research that has critically examined the role and functions of the organizations of the UN development system, this book seeks to capture in a single volume a comprehensive review of the UN’s performance and prospects for development.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Browne is Co-Director of the Future of the UN Development System (FUNDS) Project and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center. He worked for more than 30 years in different organizations of the UN development system, sharing his time almost equally between agency headquarters and country assignments. He has written books and articles on aid and development throughout his career, his most recent being The United Nations Development Programme and System (2011), The International Trade Centre (2011), and The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (2012).

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He is Past President of the ISA (2009-10). His most recent single-authored books include Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? (2013); Humanitarian Business (2013); What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (2012); and Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (2012). He is co-editor of the Routledge "Global Institutions Series" and co-director of the Wartime History and the Future United Nations Project and of the Future UN Development System Project.