The United Nations and the Regions

<p>Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART I: Regional Actorness and Representation.- Chapter 1: Sovereignty’s Evolution: the Role of Regions - Regional Convergence in a Transnational World; Carlos Pascual and Holly Benner.- Chapter 2: The Contribution of the Regional UN Economic Commissions to Regional Integration Processes: The Case of ECLAC; Edgard Moncayo Jiménez.- Chapter 3: Breaking the Deadlock of Regional Bloc Politics: Cross-Regional Coalitions and Human Rights in the UNGA; Robert Kissack.- Chapter 4: Measuring Regional Actorness at the UN Security Council: the EU as a Paragon of Complexity; Edith Drieskens.- Chapter 5: Weighted Regional Representation as a Basis for Security Council Reform; Joseph E. Schwartzberg.- Chapter 6: Regionalisation, Transnational Democracy and United Nations Reform: A Viewpoint; Hans Köchler.- PART II: Regional Organisations and Peace and Security.- Chapter 7: The UN and Regional Organisations for Peace: Tracking a Slippery Partnership; Luk Van Langenhove, Tânia Felício and Ademola Abass.- Chapter 8: The UN and the League of Arab States: A Point of View on Future Interaction; Amre Moussa.- Chapter 9: UN Cooperation with Regional Organisations in Peacekeeping Operations: A Legal Perspective; Ademola Abass.- Chapter 10: The False Promise of Regional Organizations?; Rodrigo Tavares.- Chapter 11: From International and Regional Organisations to Global Public Policy; Jean-Marc Coicaud and Jin Zhang.- Chapter 12: Hybrid Missions: A Promising Model Resolving the Global-Regional Debate; Vesselin Popovski and Annette Fath-Lihic.- Chapter 13: ASEAN, the United Nations, and the Security of Southeast Asia: Problems, Prospects, and Paradox; Seng Tan.- Chapter 14. The UN and Regional Organisations: Finding a Balance between the UN and the African Union in dealing with Peace and Security in Africa; Marié Muller andMaxi Schoeman.- PART III: Regional Organisations, Human Security, Sustainable Development and Human Rights.- Chapter 15: Reconceptualisation of Security and Regional Dimension of UN Activities: towards a Mediterranean Environmental and Human Security Initiative; Hans Günter Brauch.- Chapter 16: The Regional Input for ‘Delivering as One’; Kennedy Graham.- Chapter 17. UN System-Wide Coherence and the Regions: The Quest for Reforms; Eric Maertens.- Chapter 18. The UN and Regional Social Policy; Bob Deacon.- Chapter 19. The UN and the Regions: The case of Health Sector Coordination for Disaster Management in the Caribbean; Geert Haghebaert.- Chapter 20: Regionalism and Human Rights at the UN; Richard Gowan and Franziska Brantner.- Conclusions; Francis Baert, Tânia Felício and Philippe De Lombaerde.-</p>