ABSTRACT

Written by best-selling author Edward C. Luck, this new text is broad and engaging enough for undergraduates, sophisticated enough for graduates and lively enough for a wider audience interested in the key institutions of international public policy.

Looking at the antecedents of the UN Security Council, as well as the current issues and future challenges that it faces, this new book includes:

  • historical perspectives 
  • the founding vision
  • procedures and practices
  • economic enforcement
  • peace operations and military enforcement
  • human security
  • proliferation and WMD
  • terrorism
  • reform, adaptation and change.

part |2 pages

PART I Context

chapter 1|6 pages

Grading the great experiment

chapter 2|7 pages

The founding vision

part |2 pages

PART II Tools

chapter 4|17 pages

Peace operations

chapter 5|10 pages

Military enforcement

chapter 7|11 pages

Enlisting and empowering partners

part |2 pages

PART III Challenges

chapter 8|12 pages

The humanitarian imperative

chapter 9|18 pages

Terrorism and weapons of mass destruction

chapter 10|16 pages

Reform, adaptation, and evolution

chapter 11|6 pages

Conclusion: Reflection and projection