Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas
Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas

Author: Yves Berthelot

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2004-01-30

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9780253110893

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This second volume from the United Nations Intellectual History Project surveys the history of the UN's regional commissions and the ideas they have developed over the last 40 years. Each essay is devoted to one of the five regional commissions -- Europe, Asia and the Far East, Latin America, Africa, and Western Asia -- and how it has approached its mission of assessing the condition of regional economies and making prognoses about future conditions. The essays describe how each commission has added local perspectives to global debates over economic development and brought an authentic regional voice to the UN. Contributors are Adebayo Adedeji, Yves Berthelot, Leelananda de Silva, Blandine Destremau, Paul Rayment, and Gert Rosenthal.

Yearbook of the United Nations, Volume 46 (1992)
Yearbook of the United Nations, Volume 46 (1992)

Author: United Nations

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2023-08-28

Total Pages: 1294

ISBN-13: 9004636781

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Fully indexed, the 1992 edition of the Yearbook is the single most current, comprehensive and authoritative reference publication about the work of the United Nations, other international organizations and related bodies. The book is designed not just for use by diplomats, officials and scholars but also by other researchers, writers, journalists, teachers and students. The year 1992 was a remarkably eventful one for the United Nations and in the conduct of international relations. This volume of the Yearbook details the activities of the United Nations, its many organs, agencies and programmes, working together to rekindle a new form of multilateral cooperation for a better world. It records the diverse and globe-encompassing activities of the United Nations and its enduring efforts to deal with the world's pressing concerns, particularly matters of international peace and security, disarmament, human rights, the settlement of regional conflicts, economic and social development, the preservation of the environment, control of drugs and narcotic substance abuse, crime prevention, adequate shelter, youth and the ageing and humanitarian assistance for refugees as well as disaster relief. The Yearbooks for the years 1988, 1989 and 1990 are expected to be published within the next two years.

Envisioning the World: Mapping and Making the Global
Envisioning the World: Mapping and Making the Global

Author: Sandra Holtgreve

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 3839455294

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The »global« is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets. It aims to provide a sense in readers of how the global is not something »out there«, but that it is embedded in a wide range of the seemingly »everyday«. The contributions appeal to a readership from a background in Sociology, History, Political Science, Literary Studies, and Social Work.

Silent Revolution
Silent Revolution

Author: Duncan Green

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2003-04

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1583670912

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'Silent Revolution' includes new or amplified discussions of capital markets and the role they play in the increasing depth and frequency of financial crisis in Latin America.

The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America
The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America

Author: Henry Veltmeyer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-11-10

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0333982924

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This study examines fundamental theoretical and conceptual issues of social change in Latin America in the context of detailed empirical analysis. It challenges the major assumptions and propositions that underlie globalization theory, reworking and fine tuning the concepts of imperialism and social class as relevant to understanding the 'new world order'. The study centers on the structural features of Latin America and the state policies reconcentrating power in the capitalist class at the expense of labor. The study surveys the contradictory tendencies of concentrated wealth and power and the emergence of new socio-political movements and alternative development strategies to the dominant paradigm.

Introduction to Latin America
Introduction to Latin America

Author: Peadar Kirby

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003-05-27

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780761973737

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Introduction to Latin America provides a completely new introduction to the political, social and economic forces shaping this essential region of undergraduate study today. It is the first textbook to place Latin America within a genuinely global context and introduce the debates and impact of globalization, neoliberalism, democratization, and the environment.