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A comprehensive portrait of George Woods, fourth president of the World Bank, and his pivotal contributions to the Bank's transformation from a relatively passive investment organization into a leader of world development.

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Though the prevention of conflict is the first promise in the Charter of the United Nations, it is a promise constantly betrayed by international organizations, governments, and local actors alike. At the same time, and in a more positive vein, recent studies provide much-needed information about why and how today's conflicts start and what sustains them. This ground-breaking book presents some of the best scholarly and policy-relevant work on the practical challenges of conflict prevention within the UN system. The authors consider the causes and dynamics of war, the tools that are being developed to predict the eruption of conflict, and what is being done—and what could be done better—in the effort to move from promise to practice.

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The UN intervention in East Timor amply illustrates the type of complex operation that the United Nations increasingly is being asked to undertake. Michael Smith analyzes the successes and failures of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), which was designed to work in partnership with the East Timorese in guiding the country to independence following the 1999 vote to secede from Indonesia. Continuing the compelling narrative begun by Ian Martin in Self-Determination in East Timor, Smith gives a lucid first-hand account of a United Nations mission in the unfamiliar role of interim government—a mission dealing with critical requirements for good governance, sustainable development, and effective military and police forces. Evaluating the lessons learned from the experience, he highlights the urgent need for reforms within the UN. The absence of those reforms, he believes, will lead to more failed states, more refugees, more poverty, and more dead peacekeepers.

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While studies of the UN typically focus on its internal procedures, resources, and problems, this path-breaking inquiry probes the UN's external circumstances—the diverse ways in which the rapidly changing international scene is likely both to provide it with opportunities and to impose constraints.

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The principle of nonuse of force except in self-defense is central to the concept of UN peacekeeping. F.T. Liu recounts how this principle was formulated, analyzes problems that UN peacekeeping operations have encountered in its implementation, and proposes actions that would enable the UN to play a more useful role.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intergovernmental Organizations.