This collection presents Thomas G. Weiss’ most important contributions to debates on UN Reform, non-state actors and global governance and humanitarian action in a turbulent world.

With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion…

This book shows how institutional concerns within the international humanitarian system, combined with the domestic context of armed conflicts, often yield policies that do not serve the immediate requirements of…

This book concentrates on the bureaucratic aspects of the United Nation. It is intended to be educational, and indeed young people are intended to be a special audience. The book…

Based on scholarly research and in-depth interviews with humanitarian, political, and military officials in active war zones, this book articulates key principles of humanitarian action and shows what has to…

This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant…

This book addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the…

Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What…