Wartime origins and the future United Nations

The creation of the UN system during World War II is a largely unknown or forgotten story among contemporary decision makers, international relations specialists, and policy analysts. This book aims to recover the wartime history of the United Nations and explore how the forgotten past can shed light on a possible and more desirable future. To achieve this, each chapter takes three snapshots:""Then,"" the imaginative and transnational thinking about solutions to post-war problems demonstrated a realization that victory in WW II required an intergovernmental ""system"" with enough power and com

Introduction:Past as Prelude, Multilateralism as a Tactic and Strategy, Dan Plesch & Thomas G. Weiss 1. - PART ONE: PLANNING AND PROPAGANDA 15. - 1. Prewar and Wartime Postwar Planning: Antecedents to the UN Moment in San Francisco, J. Simon Rofe 17. - 2. UN Public Diplomacy: Communicating the Post-National Message, Giles Scott-Smith 36. - 3. Educators across Borders: The Council of Allied Ministers of Education, 1942-45, Miriam Intrator 56. - PART TWO: HUMAN SECURITY 77. - 4. A New Paradigm of International Criminal Justice? Reconsidering the 1943-1948 United Nations War Crimes Commission, Dan Plesch 79. - 5. UNRRA's Operational Genius and Institutional Design, Eli Karetny & Thomas G. Weiss 99. - 6. Towards Universal Relief and Rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the New Internationalism, Manu Bhagavan 121. - PART THREE: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 137. - 7. The United Nations and Development: From the Origins to Current Challenges, John Burley & Stephen Browne 139. - 8. Financing Gaps, Competitiveness, and Capabilities: Why Bretton Woods Needs a Radical Rethink, Pallavi Roy 160. - 9. Stable Agricultural Markets and World Order: The FAO, and ITO, 1943-1949, Ruth Jacherz 179. - 10. Conclusion: Past as Prelude, Whither the United Nations?, Dan Plesch & Thomas G. Weiss 199