The United Nations as a Knowledge System

Svenson, Nanette

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“…The UN has a decades‐long history of originating, incubating, consuming, and disseminating powerful ideas and social knowledge – from human rights to full employment, from climate change to the limits of GNP as a meaningful measurement of development (Jolly et al, 2009; Weiss et al, 2005). The Third UN as knowledge system has been an intellectual partner of the intergovernmental machinery since the organization’s inception (Svenson, 2016). The three UNs together can be usefully understood as a progressively evolving and symbiotic knowledge economy whose accumulated experience since 1945 has been harnessed with varied success to address some of the world’s most complex challenges.…”

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The ‘Third’ UN: Imagining Post‐COVID‐19 Multilateralism

Carayannis

Weiss

2021

Global Policy

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If the United Nations system is to remain relevant, or even survive, the thinking to re‐imagine and redesign contemporary global governance will come from the Third UN. This article focuses on the ecology of supportive non‐state actors – intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for‐profit private sector, and the media – that interacts with the intergovernmental machinery of the First UN and international civil servants of the Second UN to formulate and refine ideas and decision‐making in policy processes. Despite the growth in analyses of non‐state actors in global governance, the ‘other’ or ‘Third’ UN is poorly understood, often ignored, and normally discounted. Some advocate for particular ideas, others help analyze or operationalize their testing and implementation; in any case, many help the UN ‘think’ and have an impact on how we think about the United Nations.

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Section: Knowledge Brokers and Brokeringmentioning

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The ‘Third’ UN: Imagining Post‐COVID‐19 Multilateralism

Carayannis

Weiss

2021

Global Policy

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Haack

2021

Women's Access, Representation and Leadership in the United Nations

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Sécuritisation et logiques institutionnelles

Maertens

2018

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Depuis les années 1990, l’Onu produit et diffuse un discours construisant l’environnement comme une menace contre la sécurité internationale. Ce processus de sécuritisation ne fait toutefois pas l’unanimité au sein d’une organisation internationale composée d’acteurs multiples aux stratégies différenciées. Quels sont les obstacles à la sécuritisation de l’environnement à l’Onu ? Que nous apprennent-ils du processus de sécuritisation ? Comment l’exemple onusien nous renseigne-t-il sur la relation entre sécuritisation et logiques institutionnelles ? Cet article vise à répondre à ces questions à partir du cas de la sécuritisation de l’environnement à l’Onu. Il dévoile les interactions entre logiques institutionnelles et sécuritisation, qu’il étudie à l’aune des obstacles rencontrés dans la construction discursive de la menace, dans la diffusion du cadrage sécuritaire et dans les pratiques de sécuritisation.

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The United Nations as a Knowledge System

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The ‘Third’ UN: Imagining Post‐COVID‐19 Multilateralism

The ‘Third’ UN: Imagining Post‐COVID‐19 Multilateralism

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