The United Nations trusteeship system: legacies, continuities, and change

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Contextualizing Trusteeship: From Colonial Interests Toward Anti-Colonial Ambitions -- Situated in Interdisciplinary Research -- Notes -- 2 Institutional Design of the UN Trusteeship System: Between Colonial Interests and Anti-Colonial Ambitions -- From the League of Nations to the United Nations -- Laying the Groundwork: From the US Department of State Working Paper to the Yalta Conference -- From San Francisco to London: Carving Out Substantive and Procedural Inroads -- UNCIO Committee II/4: Innovating Within a Bifurcated Colonial System -- Innovating Access and Participatory Mechanisms Through Committee II/4 -- The Preparatory Commission of the United Nations: Securing Compliance -- Securing Voluntary Compliance: The Approval of Trust Territory Agreements -- Delegated Authority By the Secretary-General: Creating a NSGTs Venue -- A Wedge in the Colonial System: Petitions and Visiting Missions -- Uncharted Ground: Petitioning Via the Trusteeship Council -- Having a Voice and an Ear With the International Audience: Oral Hearings, Written Petitions, and Visiting Missions -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- 3 Decolonization and (The Limits Of) UN Agency: The UN Secretariat and the Trusteeship System -- Introduction -- Wartime Planning -- A Secretariat View On Trusteeship -- The Confines of the Trusteeship System -- Personal Confines -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Partitioning Togoland By Nullifying the Right to Petition -- Introduction -- Significance of Petitions in the Anti-Colonial Struggle -- Right to Petition: Brief Historical Overview and State of the Art -- Antecedents: Togolese Petitions Under German Rule and the League of Nations.

This book considers the past and present legacies, continuities and change of the United Nations Trusteeship System by assessing consequences and legacies of decolonization in contemporary society, international organizations and international politics. International contributors address the UN Trusteeship System as a venue for multiple state and non- state actors and its effect on the international system. Rather than viewing UN trusteeship as a bygone phenomenon, the volume underscores its current relevance, particularly in view of the recent resurgence of trusteeship models such as in Kosovo and East Timor. Offering a novel and robust, yet simple and intuitive analytical framework through which to understand a broad range of cases related to the Trusteeship System and its impact on the international system, the book places emphasis on the agency of states in the Global South and highlights the importance of multiple actors in global governance. It will be of interest to scholars of international relations theory and history in a variety of fields, ranging from African Politics to Intergovernmental Organizations and Comparative Politics.