Secretary or general? the UN Secretary-General in world politics

"The Secretary-General of the United Nations is a unique figure in world politics. At once civil servant, the world's diplomat, lackey of the UN Security Council, and commander-in-chief of up to a hundred thousand peacekeepers, he or she depends on states for both the legitimacy and resour...

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Otros Autores: Chesterman, Simon (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2007.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Kofi A. Annan
  • Introduction : secretary or general? / Simon Chesterman
  • The evolution of the Secretary-General / Brian E. Urquhart
  • 'The most impossible job' description / Shashi Tharoor
  • Selecting the world's diplomat / Colin Keating
  • Relations with the Security Council / James Cockayne and David M. Malone
  • Good offices and 'groups of friends' / Teresa Whitfield
  • The bully pulpit / Quang Trinh
  • The Secretary-General as norm entrepreneur / Ian Johnstone
  • Pope, pharaoh, or prophet? The Secretary-General after the Cold War / Adekeye Adebajo
  • Leader, clerk, or policy entrepreneur? The Secretary-General in a complex world / David Kennedy
  • The Secretary-General's political space / James Traub
  • The Secretary-General in a unipolar world / Edward C. Luck
  • Resolving the contradictions of the office / Simon Chesterman and Thomas M. Franck
  • Appendix. 1. Charter of the United Nations, 26 June 1945
  • 2. Report of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, 23 December 1945
  • 3. General Assembly resolution 11(I), 24 January 1946
  • 4. The Wisnumurti Guidelines for selecting a candidate for Secretary-General, 12 November 1996
  • 5. General Assembly resolution 51/241, 22 August 1997
  • 6. Canadian non-paper on the process for the selection of the next Secretary-General, 15 February 2006
  • 7. General Assembly resolution 60/286, 8 September 2006.