Adapting the United Nations to a Post Modern Era: Lessons Learned
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780333801505
Subjects: United Nations & UN agencies; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; International; International Relations - General; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Law-International; Political Science / International Security; Political Science / Treaties; Political Science-International Relations - General; International Relations - Treaties; Postmodernism; United Nations
First sentence: In this new millennium, creating the capacity to deal effectively with poverty, malnutrition, environmental degradation, resource depletion and other conditions associated with the dual processes of under-and over-development stands as one of the greatest challenges for those who profess a commitment to modernism's promise of 'progress' with respect to improving human well-being worldwide.
Notes: Global Issues Series (New York, N.Y. : 1999).