International organizations : perspectives on governance in the twenty-first century /

Includes index.

Introduction -- Prior studies of international organizations: an overview -- Organization of the text -- International organizations: nuts and bolts -- Intergovernmental organizations -- UN Reform --The organization of Islamic Conference -- Nongovernmental organizations -- Multinational corporations -- Conclusion -- Mainstream approaches -- Realism -- Liberalism -- Critical approaches -- Marxism -- Feminism -- International security -- The United Nations -- Case study 1: The Persian Gulf crisis -- The Security Council and Iraq after the Gulf War -- Case study 2: Srebrenica 1995 -- Security Council and related reforms -- Conclusion -- Regional security -- Post-World War II security alliances -- NATO: history, membership, and structure -- Case study 3: NATO expansion -- NATO today -- The Arab League -- Case study 4: Palestinian uprising 2000 -- The Israeli-Palestinian crisis after September 11 -- Trade -- The history of international trade -- The World Trade Organization (WTO) -- Multinational corporations (MNCs) -- Case study 5: The U.S. Clean Air Act -- Challenges for the WTO -- Case study 6: Genetically modified foods and organisms -- Conclusion -- Development -- What is development? -- Debt -- The World Bank group -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) -- The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- The UN Development Program (UNDP) -- Case study 7: The Mexican peso crisis -- Contagion -- Case study 8: Indonesia -- Millennium development goals -- Conclusion -- The environment -- The tragedy of the commons -- Environmental problems -- The Stockholm conference (1972) -- The UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) -- Efforts to protect biodiversity -- The Vienna convention of the protection of the ozone and the Montreal protocol (1985) -- The Rio Conference -- Case study 9: Global warming -- Global warming: a postscript -- Case study 10: Whaling -- Conclusion -- Social and humanitarian issues -- Refugees -- Major human rights agreements -- UN agencies and human rights -- Regional human rights accords and agencies -- NGOs and human rights -- Humanitarian intervention -- Case study 11: Rwanda -- Case study 12: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- Conclusion -- Global governance in 2025 -- A realist cut -- A liberal cut -- A Marxist cut -- A feminist cut -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Charter of the United Nations -- Appendix B: Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Appendix C: Purposes of the International Monetary Fund -- Bibliography -- Index.