03234cam a2200193 a 4500020002800000020003100028050001700059100002600076245009200102250001200194260006300206300003600269500002000305505255100325650002802876650003202904650004502936856005902981  a0132285339 (alk. paper)  a9780132285339 (alk. paper)00aJZ 4839bPEA1 aPease, Kelly-Kate S.,10aInternational organizations :bperspectives on governance in the twenty-first century /  a3rd ed.  aUpper Saddle River, N.J. :bPearson Prentice Hall,cc2008.  ax, 345 pages :bIllustrations ;  aIncludes index.0 aIntroduction -- 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. 0aInternational agencies. 0aInternational organization. 0aRegionalism (International organization)41uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006025645.html