This volume addresses the central theme of adjusting the United Nations system in light of, firstly, the broadening definition of security, secondly, a perceived shift from modernity to post-modernity; and finally, the contemporary debate about reform, adaptation and institutional learning in multilateral institutions during transnational periods. The UN has not been successful in learning appropriate lessons that could facilitate requisite changes to its structure and operations. Thus the authors in this study focus on the lessons learned from the organizations' recent performance in collective security, preventative diplomacy, preventative deployment, peacekeeping, peacemaking, peace maintenance, and international legal, environmental and trade regulation.

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CHRISTOPHER ANKERSEN Security and Defence Forum Fellow, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, USA DAVID BLACK Associate Professor of Political Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada DOUGLAS LEE DONOHO Professor of Law, Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University, Florida JARAT CHOPRA Director, International Relations Programme, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA ROGER A. COATE Professor of International Relations, University of South Carolina, USA KASSU GEBREMARIAM Adjunct Professor, Wayne State University, USA AMBASSADOR JULIAN HARSTON Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina TOM KEATING Professor of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada GEOFFREY MARTIN Lecturer, St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia JOSEPH MASCIULLI Assistant Professor of Political Science, St Thomas University, Canada ANDREI I. MAXIMENKO Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina SORPONG PEOU Associate Professor of Political Science, Sophia University, Tokyo MICHAEL G. SCHECHTER Professor of International Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State University CATHERINE TINKER Lawyer, New York City ABIODUN WILLIAMS Special Assistant to the Representative of the UN Secretary General in Haiti

Zusammenfassung
We are living at a conjuncture of change and transition. Institutions of modernity, such as the United Nations system, are experiencing difficulties coping with symptoms of postmodernity. What is clear is that the challenges facing the world body are both epiphenomenal and structural. Unless this organization adapts to meet them, there is little hope of it becoming a relevant governance body in this millennium. Already we are witnessing signs that the United Nations is being bypassed as a meaningful contributor to global, regional and local problem-solving (witness Kosovo and more recently the war in Iraq) and is not adequately equipped to deal with the expanded global security problems. While the contributions here are committed to multilateral solutions, they stand outside traditional views on the United Nations in order to grapple with the lessons learned from the organizations experiences, failures and modest successes.

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List of Acronyms Acknowledgements Preface Foreword; J.Krasno PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING CHANGE IN THE UN Introduction: Adapting the United Nations; W.A. Knight Requirements of Multilateral Governance for Promoting Human Security in a Postmodern Era; R.A.Coate, W.A.Knight & A.I.Maximenko Learning in the UN: W.A.Knight PART II: ADAPTATIONS OF UN PRIMARY CONCEPTS AND INSTRUMENTS Collective Security: Changing Conceptions and Institutional Adaptation; E.M.Smith Possibilities for Preventative Diplomacy, Early Warning and Global Monitoring in the Post Cold War Era, or the Limits to Global Structural Change; M.G.Schechter The UN and Preventative Deployment in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; A.Williams Intervention and Peace-building in Somalia: Constraints and Possibilities; W.A.Knight & K.Gebemariam International Criminal Law Enforcement; J.Chopra PART III: CASES UN Fact-finding in a Postmodern World: Potential for Arms Limitations and Confidence Building; A.A.Latham Disarming Iraq? United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission and the Future of Multilateralism; C.Ankersen The Civilian Police Element in UN Peacekeeping: The Case of Haiti; J.Harston The Neutralization of Protracted Conflicts: The Case of UNTAC; S.Peou Pivots of Peace: UN Transnational Operations; D.R.Black The UN and NATO's War: the Fallout from Kosovo; T.Keating Improving the Capacity of the UN Human Rights System; D.L.Donoho Environmental Security: Finding the Balance; C.Tinker Changing the Global Trade Structure: from 'Harmonization' to a new 'Interface Principle'; G.R.Martin Rethinking Instead of Tinkering: an Ethical Consensus and General Lessons; W.A.Knight & J.Masciulli Index