The Third United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think

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Tatiana Carayannis (Director of the Social Science Research Council's 'Understanding Violent Conflict' program and the 'Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum') Thomas G. Weiss (Presidential Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies)

The Third United Nations

How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think

Tatiana Carayannis (Director of the Social Science Research Council's 'Understanding Violent Conflict' program and the 'Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum'), Thomas G. Weiss (Presidential Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies)

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Oxford University Press
15 February 2021

Political science & theory; International relations; Geopolitics; United Nations & UN agencies

The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the intergovernmental machinery of the First UN (member states) and the Second UN (staff members of international secretariats) to formulate and refine ideas and decision-making at key junctures in policy processes. Some advocate for particular ideas, others help analyze or operationalize their testing and implementation; many thus help the UN 'think'. While think tanks, knowledge brokers, and epistemic communities are phenomena that have entered both the academic and policy lexicons, their intellectual role remains marginal to analyses of such intergovernmental organizations as the United Nations.

By: Tatiana Carayannis (Director of the Social Science Research Council's 'Understanding Violent Conflict' program and the 'Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum'), Thomas G. Weiss (Presidential Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 474g
ISBN: 9780198855859
ISBN 10: 0198855850
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 15 February 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1: The 'Third' UN: Non-State Actors and the World Body's Thinking 2: NGOs: Sovereignty-Free Partners for UN Policy Development 3: Commissions and High-Level Panels: How Eminent Individuals Shape UN Thinking 4: The UN's Knowledge Economy: Think Tanks, Academics, and Knowledge Brokers 5: Alternative Voices: Challengers of the Normative Post-War Order 6: Fitter for Purpose? The UN's Normative Future

Tatiana Carayannis is director of the Social Science Research Council's Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF) and Understanding Violent Conflict (UVC) program. She also leads the Council's China-Africa Knowledge Project and has a visiting appointment at the London School of Economics and Political Science's Africa Centre and Department of International Development, where she also serves as a Research Director for the Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID). Her publications include of UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice? (with T G Weiss, L Emmerij, & R Jolly, Indiana University Press, 2005). Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York's Graduate Center; he is also Co-Chair, Cultural Heritage at Risk Project, J. Paul Getty Trust; Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and Eminent Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Korea. His most recent single-authored publications include Would the World Be Better without the UN? (Polity Press, 2018), What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (Polity Press, 2016); and Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (Polity Press, 2016).