The Global Economy since the Second World War through the Lens of the United Nations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anis Chowdhury ◽  
José Antonio Ocampo
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
History Of ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Second World

This chapter presents a brief history of the United Nations annual report on the global economy (the World Economic and Social Survey). It highlights the areas in which the Survey can be said to have been ‘ahead of the curve’ in economic and social debates. The chapter also considers its contributions to the discourse in international political economy, development economics, and macroeconomic stabilization. It concentrates on the early decades of the Survey, again to highlight its path-breaking contributions to economic and social debates. Finally, it presents a brief summary of the rest of the volume, where authors look at specific periods of the seven decades of the Survey.

ON THE ROLE AND RELEVANCE OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Михаил Елизаров
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
International Peace ◽  
World War ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Second World

Born out of the ashes of the Second World War, the United Nations has made a major contribution to maintain international peace and security. Based on common goals, shared burdens and expenses, responsibility and accountability, the UN helped to reduce the risk of a repetition of a Word War, to reduce hunger and poverty, and promote human rights. But today, the legitimacy and credibility of the UN have been seriously undermined by the desire of some countries to act alone, abandoning multilateralism. So, do we need the UN today?

scholarly journals International bureaucracy and the United Nations system

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232110387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir ◽  
Ronny Patz ◽  
Steffen Eckhard
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Second World War ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
World War ◽  
International Bureaucracy ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Second World ◽  
Nations System

Built on the administrative system of the League of Nations, since the Second World War, the United Nations has grown into a sizeable, complex and multilevel system of several dozen international bureaucracies. Outside of a brief period in the 1980s, and despite growing scholarship on international public administrations over the past two decades, there have been few publications in the International Review of Administrative Sciences on the evolution of the United Nations system and its many public administrations. The special issue ‘International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System’ aims to encourage renewed scholarly focus on this global level of public administration. This introduction makes the case for why studying the United Nations’ bureaucracies matters from a public administration perspective, takes stock of key literature and discusses how the seven articles contribute to key substantive and methodological advancements in studying the administrations of the United Nations system.

Features of the Development of Vocational Education and Science in Japan after the Second World War

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
A. Baryshnikov ◽  
Sergey Shishov
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Japanese Education ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Educational Achievements ◽  
History Of ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Second World

Russian vocational education is a subject to deep modernization, in connection with this, it is necessary to consider the best practices in reforming the global educational space, identify innovative national policy priorities, rationally defining the educational reform strategy based on in-depth studies of domestic and world economic forecasting. The article discusses the features of the history of Japanese vocational education after the Second World War, the uniqueness of scientific and educational achievements. The paper indicates the main trends in the modernization of education in the 21st century, considers the likelihood of transferring the experience of Japanese education to the Russian system while preserving the national historical and cultural traditions.

scholarly journals Det negative omslag i ‘Aldrig igen!’ – om historiepolitiske manipulationer af moralske imperativer

2018 ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Ditte Marie Munch Hansen
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Genocide Convention ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Second World

In Negative Dialektik, Theodor W. Adorno claimed that after the Second World War a new categorical imperative was imposed on mankind: namely, to prevent Auschwitz – or something similar – from happening again. Today – 60 years after the United Nations Genocide Convention came into effect – it is difficult to remain optimistic about the preventive character of Adorno’s “Never Again!” imperative. In spite of its existence, the second half of the 20th Century was filled with ethnic violence andgenocide. This article undertakes a philosophical analysis of the “Never Again!” refrain and questions whether this new imperative is as preventive as we assume. The analysis looks at how Serbian nationalism used (and misused) history and expressions as “Never again!”. This example shows us that the impulse of moral abhorrence in “Never again!” does not necessarily lead to preventing atrocity, but can be an incitement to initiate new ones.

Protection by Action

1988 ◽  
Vol 28 (265) ◽  
pp. 325-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Hocké
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Main Function ◽  
World War ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Refugee Problem ◽  
Second World

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was set up in 1951 with the main function of providing protection for refugees. This mandate corresponded to the task immediately confronting it, that of solving the refugee problem affecting Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War.

The Unexpected Stabilization of Control

2019 ◽  
pp. 126-147
Author(s):  
Brendan O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Second World

This chapter emphasizes how the Second World War unexpectedly stabilized the system of control in Northern Ireland. In the late 1930s the Northern government, like that of Newfoundland, faced possible bankruptcy, and the UUP leadership looked stale and challenged. At the same time, independent Ireland was showing evidence of consolidation of its sovereignty, economic development, and stability. The Second World War, and the eventual US leadership of the United Nations against the Axis powers, reversed the rolling out of these patterns. How and why Ulster Unionists benefited more than Irish nationalists from the Second World War is explained.

Meeting on aid for victims of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia (Geneva, 29 July 1992)

1992 ◽  
Vol 32 (289) ◽  
pp. 389-390
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
World War ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Refugee Problem ◽  
Second World

The magnitude of the refugee problem in the former Yugoslavia, unprecedented in Europe since the Second World War, prompted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to convene an international meeting in Geneva on 29 July 1992 aimed at mobilizing support for some 2,300,000 people who have fled the fighting since the beginning of the Yugoslav crisis in 1991.

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