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UN Voices: The Struggle for Development
and Social Justice
Thomas G. Weiss,
Tatiana Carayannis,
Louis Emmerij, and Richard
Jolly
Extracts from and introductory
material for key interviews about the role of UN ideas in development
discourse and policy from some 75 oral history interviews with key
participants at the UN. One of the key public products of this project
is this second overarching book from three of the project's directors,
which will include the following:
- The role of the pioneer UN thinkers including
the Nobel laureates in economics (for example, Gunnar Myrdal
in the early period of the Economic Commission for Europe, Jan Tinbergen
and Sir Arthur Lewis; Raul Prebisch in the early years of ECLA and
of Robert Gardner in the early period of the Economic Commission
for Africa (ECA)).
- Views about the evolution of ideas and concepts
in relationship to major global challenges and crises (e.g., the
Depression, World War II, independence and decolonization, East-West
tensions, North-South dialogue, the end of the Cold War).
- The origins of UN thinking on international governance
(e.g., leadership, the international civil service, institutional
rivalries); and the impact on discourse, coalition-building, decision-making,
institutions.
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