Powerhouse of Ideas: The United Nations Intellectual History Project
| Autor: | D. J. Shaw |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Human rights media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Management Monitoring Policy and Law Development Preventive diplomacy Public administration Intellectual history Economic Justice Scholarship Political science Political history Human security media_common |
| Zdroj: | Development Policy Review. 28:503-507 |
| ISSN: | 0950-6764 1999-2009 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2010.00494.x |
| Popis: | This is the concluding volume of the United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP). In his Foreword to the book, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed his gratitude to the project’s directors ‘for their unstinting efforts to document how UN ideas have been among the world organization’s most important achievements. I am certain that the project will continue to inspire innovation and scholarship for many decades to come’ (p. xv). Over the past decade (1999-2009), the project has sought to provide a history of the ideas and concepts for human progress formed and launched at the UN, which hitherto had been lacking. Directed by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly and Thomas Weiss, all with long and distinguished academic and UN careers, whom Kofi Annan described as ‘independent thinkers who have an inside knowledge but who write in their personal and professional capacities’, it was also guided by an ‘International Advisory Council’ of 11 distinguished authorities, and financed by funds from eight governments and six foundations. The UNHIP has been an ambitious undertaking. It has produced an impressive output, consisting of two parts. The first is a series of 15 volumes, all published by Indiana University Press. Of these, four overarching books have been produced by the directors themselves: Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges (2001); UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice (with Dharam Ghai and Frederic Lapeyre) (2004); UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (with Tatiana Carayannis) (2005) and this concluding volume (2009). The remaining 11 were commissioned studies written by authorities in their respective fields and covering a wide array of subjects, including, in the order in which they were published: Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas: Perspectives from the UN Regional Commissions (2003); Quantifying the World: UN Contributions to Statistics (2004); The UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance and Development (2004); Women, Development and the United Nations (2005); Human Security and the UN: A Critical History (2006); Preventive Diplomacy at the UN (2007); Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice (2008); The UN and Transnational Corporations: From Code of Conduct to Global Compact (2008); The UN and |
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