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People often refer to the 'United Nations' but without specifying which specific parts are responsible for success or failure. This book explores supportive the non-state actors that are essential players in developing global policies and norms, alongside the traditional categories of member states (first UN) and staff (second UN).

The revised introduction to this classic text highlights significant global developments, including the election of António Guterres as the ninth Secretary-General. It examines the rise of "new nationalisms," illustrated by events like Trump’s presidency and Brexit, alongside the growing influence of non-state actors such as ISIS and various entities within the "third UN." This updated edition provides a contemporary lens on key political dynamics shaping the world today.

Once celebrated as an answer to the myriad ills of the post-Cold War era, global governance is now in trouble. Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, Rethinking Global Governance provides an antidote to simplistic usage and an authoritative yet readable attempt to grasp the governance of our globe--past, present, and future--

He is not shy about UN achievements and failures drawn from its ideas and operations in its three substantive pillars of activities: international peace and security; The selection of Antonio Guterres as the ninth UN secretary- general should rekindle critical thinking about the potential for international cooperation.

In this revised edition, Thomas Weiss examines the complexities of humanitarian intervention post-Cold War, addressing the failures in Syria while analyzing cases like Rwanda and Kosovo. He explores the political, ethical, and operational dimensions of the responsibility to protect, engaging with ongoing debates and future challenges in international humanitarian action.

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 Timor, and Libya to Cote d'Ivoire, soldiers have rescued civilians in some of the world's most notorious war zones.

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

The continuously increasing installed power of renewable energies causes strong changes in energy and especially electricity supply systems. With increasing share of intermittent renewable energy, it is becoming more and more difficult to compensate the areal and temporal mismatches of energy production and consumption. To increase the areal balancing, transmission and distribution system extension will be needed. The temporal balancing is a more complex issue to address because there are various technical options including demand side integration, import/export of energy, excess installation of renewable energy producing units, using excess energy for other sectors like the heating and transport sector and last but not least storing the energy during times of surpluses and providing it during times of shortages. All these options will have a share in the final solution, but the particular share will still have to be defined. The question that has to be answered in the upcoming years is how much of each measure will be needed to fulfill the political goals of renewable energy integration and CO2 emissions on the one side and to maintain the system stability and the security of supply on the other side. The achievement of these goals has to be investigated against the background of economic considerations like minimum electricity generation costs. This can only be done by modeling the supply system under certain scenario assumptions. This thesis presents the Energy System Optimization Studio (ESOS), a new tool for energy system modeling including technical as well as non-technical considerations and closing the gap between physics based system-dynamic models and projection models. With ESOS it is now possible to study the influence of different framework conditions (technical, economic and political) on the power plant dispatch, energy storage needs and operation strategies, load flows, CO2 emission and costs. In general, a transparent and reproducible approach to model energy supply systems is carried out, which up to date is still missing in research and literature. The simulation period can range from few hours to multiple years with a timely resolution of 15 minutes to one hour. Even when calculating periods of multiple years, ESOS allows the modelling of the integrated technologies with much details by using a rolling optimization approach.

Problems posed by Syria s chemical weapons attacks, Egypt s ouster of an elected government, and myriad other global dilemmas beg the question of whether and how the world can be governed. The challenge is addressing what former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Problems without Passports environmental, economic, humanitarian, and political crises that threaten stability, prosperity, and even human survival. Everything is globalized everything "except" politics, which remain imprisoned behind national borders. The world has changed, but our basic way of managing it has not. We pursue fitful, tactical, short-term, and local responses for actual or looming threats that require sustained, strategic, longer-run, and global actions. With clarity and passion, Thomas G. Weiss argues for a diversity of organizational arrangements some centralized, some decentralized and a plurality of problem-solving strategies some worldwide, some local. He proposes a three-pronged strategy: the expansion of the formidable amount of practical global governance that already exists, the harnessing of political and economic possibilities opened by the communications revolution, and the recommitment by states to a fundamental revamping of the United Nations."

This book explores global governance, examining how states and organizations manage international issues without a central authority. It highlights the gap between escalating global threats and inadequate political structures, advocating for strategic, long-term solutions to address these challenges. Thomas G. Weiss offers a cautiously optimistic perspective on improving global governance.