United Nations Law Making

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A distinguished professor of international law and United Nations special adviser, Edward McWhinney offers a cogent exploration of the legal questions and quandaries faced by the United Nations in an era of increasing volatility in international relations. Since the advent of decolonization and national self-determination in the late 1950s, the balance of power in the world community has shifted irrevocably. The predictable, relatively conservative trends of postwar relations, dominated by theSovietUnionandtheUnitedStates, have more and more been challenged by Third World countries with widely disparate ideological approaches and ethnic-cultural histories. McWhinney charts for us this uneasy transition from the uncomfortable yet familiar East-West Big Power rivalry to the present "multipolarity" of conflicting value-systems. The challenge to the United Nations in this era, McWhinney maintains, will be to reconcile the differing legal values and differing methodologies of legal... Tovább

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A distinguished professor of international law and United Nations special adviser, Edward McWhinney offers a cogent exploration of the legal questions and quandaries faced by the United Nations in an era of increasing volatility in international relations. Since the advent of decolonization and national self-determination in the late 1950s, the balance of power in the world community has shifted irrevocably. The predictable, relatively conservative trends of postwar relations, dominated by theSovietUnionandtheUnitedStates, have more and more been challenged by Third World countries with widely disparate ideological approaches and ethnic-cultural histories. McWhinney charts for us this uneasy transition from the uncomfortable yet familiar East-West Big Power rivalry to the present "multipolarity" of conflicting value-systems. The challenge to the United Nations in this era, McWhinney maintains, will be to reconcile the differing legal values and differing methodologies of legal problem solving in a flexible manner. He suggests that it is possible to build on shared principles of law, together with projections of long-range historical trends. The responsibility of the United Nations will be to construct a new legal framework broad-ranging and resilient enough to carry the world community through the close of the twentieth century and beyond. Edward McWhinney, Q.C., is Professor of International Law and Relations at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. A Member of the Institut de Droit International, he has taught at the University of Paris, the Collége de Francé, Yale University, and numerous other universities in Europe and North America. Dr. McWhinney has served as special adviser to the Canadian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. His publications include The International Law of Détente, The World Court and the Contemporary International LawMaking Process, and Conflict and Compromise: International Law and World Order in a Revolutionary Age. Vissza