Talking Democracy At The United Nations

Rechtmäßige Herrschaft auf internationaler Ebene verlangt zunehmend die Einhaltung demokratischer Standards. Das zumindest suggeriert die Prominenz des Demokratiebegriffs in den Reformdebatten internationaler Organisationen. Auf Basis eines neuen Datensatzes, der ein Jahrzehnt Demokratiediskurs von 159 Staaten über den UN-Sicherheitsrat und die UN Generalversammlung abdeckt, liefert das Buch wichtige Einblicke in das Narrativ vom demokratischen Regieren jenseits des Staates, seine Merkmale und seine Funktionsweise. Die Befunde befruchten nicht nur die Forschung zu empirischer Legitimität, Normkontestation und globaler Demokratie. In einer Zeit, in der ideologischer Wettbewerb auf dem Vormarsch ist, zeugen sie auch von der Kraft der demokratischen Idee.

A critical, conceptual-historical analysis of democracy at the United Nations, detailed in four 'visions' of democracy civilization, elections, governance and developmental democracy.

"The UN is able to recognize key global challenges but is beset by difficulties in trying to resolve them. It represents the current global political balance but is also the only international institution that can move it forward." "Civil society can be a catalyst for this kind of change. In this book, Nora McKeon provides a comprehensive analysis of UN engagement with civil society. The book pays particular attention to food and agriculture, which now lie at the heart of global governance issues. McKeon shows that politically meaningful space for civil society can be introduced into UN policy dialogue. The United Nations and Civil Society also makes the case that it is only by engaging with organizations which legitimately speak for the 'poor' that the UN can promote equitable, sustainable development and build global democracy from the ground up." "This book has strong ramifications for global governance, civil society and social movements, as well as for the contemporary debate over the future of food."--Jacket.

This book explores UN bureaucracy and the development dysfunction it sows in four 'most different' African countries: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Tanzania. Wilson's original purpose for researching this book was to uncover new solutions to some of the United Nations' most vexing implementation problems. Yet, as research unfolded, it became clear that the reasons for those problems lay tangled up in bureaucratic and philosophical quagmires of a much more fundamental nature. The United Nations and Democracy in Africa is the documentation not only of these bureaucratic and philosophical absurdities that find expression through development practice, but also the journey of the author from ardent defender of the UN to profound sceptic.

On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, the world has faced its biggest shared test since the Second World War in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Yet while our welfare, and indeed the permanence of human life, depend on us working together, international cooperation has never been harder to achieve. This report answers a call from UN Member States to provide recommendations to advance our common agenda and to respond to current and future challenges. Its proposals are grounded in a renewal of the social contract, adapted to the challenges of this century, taking into account younger and future generations, complemented by a new global deal to better protect the global commons and deliver global public goods. Through a deepening of solidarity—at the national level, between generations, and in the multilateral system—Our Common Agenda provides a path forward to a greener, safer and better future.

Presents a selection of questions and answers covering the principles of democracy, including human rights, free and fair elections, open and accountable government, and civil society.

Democracy in the South is the first international collaboration that draws attention to the complex problems of democratic consolidation across the majority world. Nine case studies, three each from Africa, Latin America and Asia, shed light on the contemporary challenges faced by democratizing countries, mostly from the perspective of emerging theorists working in their home countries.--Publisher's description.