Author: Thomas G. Weiss

Ideas and concepts have been a driving force in human progress, and they may be the most important legacy of the United Nations. UN ideas have set ...

Arguing forcefully that changing times are a clarion call for new thinking, this book convincingly shows that if humanitarian organizations continu...

The revised and updated Introduction to this classic text situates the UN in substantially changing world politics, including: The election of the...

Problems posed by Syria s chemical weapons attacks, Egypt s ouster of an elected government, and myriad other global dilemmas beg the question of w...

"The authors have cajoled, intrigued, or reassured their 73 'voices' into telling a fascinating story of the UN and its institutions, which is also...

There are two distinct contemporary challenges to the relief of war-induced human suffering--one within the institutions that make up the internati...

Do we need the United Nations?  Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? And where could it be had...

Do we need the United Nations?  Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? And where could it be had...

Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the...

Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the...

A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East T...

With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecede...

Problems posed by Syria s chemical weapons attacks, Egypt s ouster of an elected government, and myriad other global dilemmas beg the question of w...

What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulat...

What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulat...

One of the more prolific and influential analysts of multilateral approaches to global problem-solving over the last three decades is Thomas G. Wei...

One of the more prolific and influential analysts of multilateral approaches to global problem-solving over the last three decades is Thomas G. Wei...

This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displa...

This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displa...

There are two distinct contemporary challenges to the relief of war-induced human suffering--one within the institutions that make up the internati...

This completely revised and updated eighth edition serves as the definitive text for courses in which the United Nations is either the focus or a c...

This book concentrates on the bureaucratic aspects of the United Nation. It is intended to be educational, and indeed young people are intended to ...

Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. Its purpose is to disrupt the simple association be...