United Nations and Global Governance

United Nations is an international organization. It came into existence in 24 October 1945 with 50 member states.

The same year its charter was signed. At present, UN has 193 members states and work on a vast array of global issues that range from climate change, sustainable development, human rights, disarmament, gender equality, food security to conflict prevention.

Below is a list of books on UN and issues of global governance:

• Swords into Plowshares: The Problems and Progress of International Organization by Inis L. Claude
• The Global Transformation Reader by David Held and Anthony McGrew
• International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance by Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst
• Peace Operations by Paul F. Diehl
• The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict by Michael E. Brown
• The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect by Ramesh Thakur
• The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws
• United Nations, Divided World: UN's Role in International Relations by Robert Adam and Kingsbury
• The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an Interdependent World by Paul F. Diehl
• Global Governance and the United Nations: An Unfinished Journey by Weiss Thomas G. and Ramesh Thakur
• The Global Environment in the Twenty-First Century by Pamela S. Chasek
• Envisioning Reform: Enhancing UN Accountability in the Twenty-First Century by Kuyama Sumihiro and Micheal Ross Fowler

 

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