Synopses & Reviews
The UN has suffered from its earliest days as a result of persistent financial problems, which left it on the edge of apparent bankruptcy. This book looks at the history of the regular and peace-keeping budgets. It focuses on the role of the United States, simultaneously the UN's biggest contributor of funds and its largest debtor. It examines possible solutions against the background today of the UN attempting to reform itself to meet the challenges posed by globalization and an increasing number of civil wars.
Review
...a detailed, well researched, and ultimately, very useful book...
International Journal
Synopsis
Analyses and tell the story of the financial problems and workings of the UN system in a historical and political context.
Synopsis
McDermott, a researcher at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, looks at the history of finances and budgeting in the UN, and details reforms that will enable the UN to cope with globalization and share its peacekeeping and humanitarian burdens with other international and non-governmental bodies. He examines fundraising methods, looks in detail at the regular budget and the peacekeeping budget, and describes the role of the US as the organization's most important provider of funds and simultaneously its largest debtor.
Synopsis
Analyses and tell the story of the financial problems and workings of the UN system in a historical and political context.
About the Author
Anthony McDermott is Senior Researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo.
Table of Contents
Introduction * The Business of Making Ends Meet * Changes in Problems and Principles * The Ways from the Beginning * The Regular Budget: An Uncertain Capacity to Pay * Finding and Funding the Paths to Peace * Washington: The UN's Dear Donor and Delinquent * A Gallimaufry of Money-raising Devices * Reassessing the Budgets * The Discomfort of the Run-in with Reform * And Back into the New Era