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United Nations Law, Politics, and Practice
The result of a 300-year-long experiment, the United Nations has preserved its position as an indispensable actor on the world stage. As Kofi Annan famously remarked, “more than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.” Since its formation, the international community of states averted a third World War, replaced colonialism with self-determination, reduced poverty and hunger, eradicated many diseases, and established mechanisms for promoting and protecting human rights. Yet, the way the United Nations operates to achieve these objectives is not well known. There has yet to be a comprehensive and accessible text that presents a holistic overview of the United Nations as an institution through a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the UN rather than an exclusively legal or political analysis.
United Nations Law, Politics, and Practice explores the important events that shaped the United Nations under different Secretaries-General, describes the legal framework in which it operates, and discusses its politics and practice from an insider’s viewpoint. It provides sufficient information on the UN’s evolution, structure, functioning, and activities in order to empower readers to form their own thoughts about the strengths, weaknesses, successes, and failures of the UN. Students, professors, lawyers, diplomats, international public servants, and those with any interest in international relations or international law will consider this book a valuable resource examining the world’s most prominent intergovernmental organization.
Contributors
Tavadian Alexandre
Alexandre Tavadian is the principal legal advisor of a large NATO agency headquartered in Luxembourg. Prior to joining NATO, he worked in the Office of Administration of Justice of the UN Secretariat and in the Legal Affairs Service of UNHCR in Beirut, Nairobi, and Bangkok. He appeared as counsel of record before national and international courts and tribunals at all levels, including the UN Dispute Tribunal, the UN Appeals Tribunal, NATO Administrative Tribunal, and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. Prior to joining the United Nations System, he worked as legal counsel in the Department of Justice of Canada, where he represented the interests of the Canadian government before the Federal Courts. He also worked as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal.
