Adapting the United Nations to a Post-Modern Era

Abstract

Requirements of multilateral governance for promoting human securtiy in a postmodern era / Roger A. Coate, W. Andy Knight and Andrei I. Maximenko -- Learning in the United Nations / W. Andy Knight -- Collective security: changing conceptions and institutional adaptation / Edwin M. Smith -- Possibilities for preventive diplomacy, ealry warning and global monitoring in the post-cold war era; or, the limits to global structural change / Michael G. Schechter -- The United Nations and preventive deployment in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia / Abiodun Williams -- UN intervention and peacebuilding in Somalia: constraints and possibilities / W. Andy Knight and Kassu Gebremariam -- International criminal law enforcement / Jarat Chopra -- UN fact-finding in a postmodern world: potential for arms limitation and confidence-building / Andrew A. Latham -- Disarming Iraq? United Nations monitoring, verification and inspection commission and the future of multilateralism / Christopher Ankersen -- The civilian police element in UN peacekeeping: the case of Haiti / Julian Harston -- The neutralization of protracted conflicts: the case of UNTAC / Sorpong Peou -- Pivots of peace: UN transitional operations / David R. Black -- The United Nations and NATO's war: the fallout from Kosovo / Tom Keating -- Improving the capacity of the United Nations' human rights system / Douglas Lee Donoho -- Environmental security: finding the balance / Catherine Tinker -- Changing he global trade structure: from 'harmonization' to a new 'interface principle' / Geoffrey R. Martin -- Conclusion: rethinking instead of tinkering - an ethical consensus and general lessons / W. Andy Knight and Joseph Masciulli.