The Ralph Bunche Institute fosters the production of published research on international affairs.

The following is a list of significant new and forthcoming publications (2009-10), as well as recent ones (since 2001), that were researched, written, or edited by affiliated personnel and projects.

Click here to view the Routledge "Global Institutions Series," edited by Thomas G. Weiss (The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA) and Rorden Wilkinson (University of Manchester, UK).

2010

Thomas G. Weiss and Ramesh Thakur, Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2010).

Nico Schrijver, Development Without Destruction: The UN and Global Resource Management (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2010).

2009

Thomas G. Weiss, What's Wrong with the UN and How to Fix It (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009).

Jane Boulden, Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. Weiss ed., The United Nations and Nuclear Orders (New York: United Nations University Press, forthcoming 2009).

Olav Stokke, The UN and Development: From Aid to Cooperation (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2009).

Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss, UN Ideas That Changed the World (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2009).

Thomas G. Weiss, Tapio Kanninen, and Michael K. Busch, "Sustainable Global Governance for the 21st Century," Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Occasional Paper #45, September 2009. (pdf format).

2008

Tagi Sagafi-nejad, The UN and Transnational Corporations: From Code of Conduct to Global Compact (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008).

Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss, eds., Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008).

Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi, Human Rights at the United Nations: The Political History of Universal Justice (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008).

B. G. Ramcharan, Preventive Diplomacy at the UN: The Journey of an Idea (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008).

2007

Thomas G. Weiss, Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007).

Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws, eds., The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

2006

Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss, Sword & Salve: Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006).

S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong, Human Security and the UN: A Critical History (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006).

Thomas G. Weiss and David A. Korn, Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and Its Consequences (London: Routledge, 2006).

2005

Devaki Jain, Women, Development and the UN: A Sixty Year Quest for Equality and Justice (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005).

Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly, UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005).

Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss The Power of UN Ideas: Lessons from the First 60 Years June 2005 (pdf format).

Thomas G. Weiss, "Overcoming the Security Council Reform Impasse: The Implausible versus the Plausible," Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Occasional Paper #14, January 2005. (pdf format).

2004

"A Conversation with Tom Weiss," Folio (Highlighting Scholarship and Research at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York), Spring 2004, p. 1. (pdf format).

Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, Dharam Ghai, and Frédéric Lapeyre, UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).

John Toye and Richard Toye, The UN and Global Political Econom: Trade Finance, and Development (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004) (more).

Thomas G. Weiss, Military-Civilian Interactions: Humanitarian Crises and the Responsibility to Protect, 2nd edition (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefied Publishers, Inc., 2004).

Thomas G. Weiss, David P. Forsythe, Roger Coate, The United Nations and Changing World Politics, 4th edition (Boulder: Westview Press, 2004).

Michael Ward, Quantifying the World: UN Contributions to Statistics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).

Thomas G. Weiss, Margaret E. Crahan, and John Goering, eds., Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy (London: Routledge, 2004).

Jane Boulden and Thomas G. Weiss, eds., Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11 (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2004).

Jane Boulden, ed., Dealing with Conflict in Africa: The United Nations and Regional Organizations (New York: Palgrave, 2004).

Maivân Clech Lâm, "Remembering the Country of Their Birth: Indigenous Peoples and Territoriality," Journal of International Affairs , Spring 2004, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 129-150. (pdf format).

2003

Yves Berthelot with contributions from Adebayo Adedeji, Yves Berthelot, Leelananda de Silva, Paul Rayment, Gert Rosenthal, and Blandine Destremeau, Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas: Perspectives from the UN Regional Commissions (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003).

The Stanley Foundation, UN on the Ground (Muscatine, Iowa: The Stanley Foundation, October 2003) (more).

Neil Smith, American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).

Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss, Ahead of the Curve?: UN Ideas and Global Challenges (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2nd edition, 2003; French, German, Arabic editions published 2003).

Mauricio Font and Anthony Peter Spanakos, eds., Reforming Brazil (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2003).

2002

Fernado Henrique Cardoso, Charting A New Course: The Politics of Globalization and Social Transformation (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001) (more). Edited and introduction by Mauricio Font.

International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The Responsibility to Protect: The Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2001), volume 1 (more).

International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The Responsibility to Protect: Research, Bibliography, Background (Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2001), volume 2 (more). Authored by Thomas G. Weiss and Don Hubert.

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