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.

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?

The Competence of the International Labor Organization Under the United Nations System

1951 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Sulkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
World War I ◽  
United Nations ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
World War ◽  
International Labor ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System

The International Labor Organization (hereafter referred to as the ILO) was established by the peace treaties concluded at the close of World War I as an autonomous part of the League of Nations for the purpose of promoting social justice.

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.

Genocidal Politics and Racialization of Intervention: From Rwanda to Darfur and Beyond

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shedrack C. Agbakwa
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Community ◽  
World War ◽  
Rwandan Genocide ◽  
Legal Duty ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System

Last year marked the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide when more than 800,000 people were slaughtered within 100 days under the watch of the international community. As the United Nations has since acknowledged, “[t]he international community did not prevent the genocide, nor did it stop the killing once the genocide had begun.” The whole world failed the victims – a failure the UN Report called a fundamental “failure of the international community [and] failure of the United Nations system as a whole.” Those who could did little or nothing to help. Indeed, some actively concealed or denied the unfolding genocide. Interestingly, the genocide took place more than half a century after the victorious allies of World War II vowed “Never Again!” to genocide in response to the Nazi holocaust. Also, by 1994 the 1948Convention on the Punishment and the Prevention of the Crime of Genocideunder which states assumed a legal duty to prevent and punish the crime of genocide was nearly half a century old.

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.

6. Trusteeship Agreement for the Former Japanese Mandated Islands Approved at the One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Security Council, April 2,1947.

1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 410-414
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Second World War ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Administration And Supervision ◽  
The One ◽  
Second World

WHEREAS Article 75 of the Charter of the United Nations provides for the establishment of an international trusteeship system for the administration and supervision of such territories as may be placed thereunder by subsequent agreements; andWHEREAS under Article 77 of the said Charter the trusteeship system may be applied to territories now held under mandate; andWHEREAS on 17 December 1920 the Council of the League of Nations confirmed a mandate for the former German islands north of the equator to Japan, to be administered in accordance with Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations; andWHEREAS Japan, as a result of the Second World War, has ceased to exercise any authority in these islands;NOW, THEREFORE, the Security Council of the United Nations, having satisfied itself that the relevant articles of the Charter have been complied with, hereby resolves to approve the following terms of trusteeship for the Pacific Islands formerly under mandate to Japan.

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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