Mark F Imber
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark F Imber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark F |
| FAMILY NAME | Imber |
| SIGNATURE | IMBER M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Flanders to Fallujah: Rethinking remembrance
This article questions the attitudes of a sample group of British young people to the rituals of remembrance commonly observed in the United Kingdom during the second week of November. In view of the complete transformation of war and war service since 1919 - none of the fallen from current and recent wars in Afghanistan or Iraq are buried abroad or buried unknown, and none were conscripted - this article seeks to establish whether or not the est…
The Reform of the UN Security Council
This article focuses on the United Nations' reform debates, particularly those surrounding changes to the Security Council. These debates are largely about rules, both formal and informal, that shape the roles of the veto powers and the ways in which other member-states can attain a seat on the Council. In order to implement the largely rule-governed system of collective security, it is necessary to have a Security Council that reflects a legitim…
The Environment and International Relations
Environmental issues and questions of global change are now firmly established on the international political agenda. This book provides a wide-ranging survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in international relations. This book begins by looking at the relevance of the different theoretical approaches current in international relations to the study of the environment. It analyzses a wide range of approaches from the debate betwe…
Books reviewed
Global Economy, Global Justice: Theoretical and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism George F. DeMartino Routledge (2000), London, ISBN 0415224012. Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future Finn Tarp, ed. Routledge (2000), London, ISBN 0415233631. Evaluating Development Aid: Issues, Problems and Solutions B.E. Cracknell Sage (2000), London. ISBN 0761994033. The Third World in the Age of Globalisation: Requiem or Ne…
The impasse in UN reform
Sustaining the United Nations
The United Nations system: The policies of member states and State, society and the UN system: changing perspectives on multilateralism
Journal Article The United Nations system: the policies of member states and State, society and the UN system: changing perspectives on multilateralism Get access The United Nations system: the policies of member states. Edited by Chadwick F. Alger, Gene M. Lyonsand John E. Trent. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. 1995. 510pp. $60.00. ISBN 92 808 0884 2.State, society and the UN system: changing perspectives on multilateralism. Edited by Ke…
State of the world 1995: A Worldwatch Institute report on the progress toward a sustainable society
Journal Article State of the world 1995: a Worldwatch Institute report on the progress toward a sustainable society Get access State of the world 1995: a Worldwatch Institute report on the progress toward a sustainable society. By Lester R. Brownand others. London: Earthscan. 1995. 255pp. Index. Pb.: £12.95.ISBN 1 85383 247 2. Mark Imber Mark Imber 1University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Social theory and the global environment
Journal Article Social theory and the global environment Get access Social theory and the global environment. Edited by Michael Redcliftand Ted Benton. London: Routledge. 1994. 271pp. Index. £40.00; ISBN 0 415 11169 2. Pb.: £12.99; ISBN 0 415 11170 6. Mark Imber Mark Imber 1University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 1, January 1995, Page 154, https://do…
Environment, Security and UN Reform
This book presents a study of international relations theory and the role of the United Nations in international environmental negotiations. The book links discussion of three issues: the persistence
Too many cooks? The post-Rio reform of the United Nations
The UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio agreed to the creation of a new organ within the UN to coordinate the implementation of sustainable development policies. The Sustainable Development Commission represents a surprising achievement in view of the generally critical attitudes of some among the Group of Seven to creating new organs within the UN system. The UN Environmental Programme, cited for an expansion of its role has, ove…
The United Nations' role in sustainable development
Overhauling and coordinating the UN's internal organisation to reflect the change in consciousness from environment and development as two separate areas to sustainable development as an integrated policy is a formidable task. The newly created Commission on Sustainable Development has been charged with the tasks of UNCED follow up and national reporting, as well as aspects of UN system coordination. The role of UNEP has been strengthened. The UN…
Environmental security: A task for the UN system
Two issues have dramatized the revived potential for a decisive UN contribution to diplomacy in the 1990s. One is the rise of the environmental agenda as an issue at once, both genuinely global, and politically divisive. Conflict is generated because global warming, acid deposition, ozone depletion and marine pollution create real but also differential costs to the states of the world. The second issue, apparent since 1989, is the renewed opportu…
Teaching the politics of international organization
June 1985 marked the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the San Francisco conference on international organization that adopted the UN charter. This period, distinguished by the absence of war between the superpowers, is double the period that elapsed between 1918 and 1939. It was the hope and intention of those gathered at San Francisco that their labours would produce an institutional framework of collective security in which a recurrence o…
A comment
Robert McLaren is to be commended for his stimulating response to my article ‘Re-Reading Mitrany’ (Review of International Studies, 10, 2, 1984). He suggests that my discussion constituted the creation of ‘...an interpretive subset of Mitranian functionalism’. I would like to disclaim the attribution and attempt to demonstrate that the set of propositions derived from my discussion are: (a) genuinely attributable to the thrust of Mitrany's origin…
Re-reading Mitrany: A pragmatic assessment of sovereignty
David Mltrany's functionalism has provided an inspired, if widely criticized approach to the study of international organization, 1 Although originally conceived without regional restrictions in its application, it has been interpreted as a prescription for European integration hence the development of the formerly pervasive but now largely discredited neo-functionalist school. 2 The contention that will be advanced here is that Mitrany's work ma…
From Flanders to Fallujah: Rethinking remembrance
This article questions the attitudes of a sample group of British young people to the rituals of remembrance commonly observed in the United Kingdom during the second week of November. In view of the complete transformation of war and war service since 1919 - none of the fallen from current and recent wars in Afghanistan or Iraq are buried abroad or buried unknown, and none were conscripted - this article seeks to establish whether or not the est…
The Reform of the UN Security Council
This article focuses on the United Nations' reform debates, particularly those surrounding changes to the Security Council. These debates are largely about rules, both formal and informal, that shape the roles of the veto powers and the ways in which other member-states can attain a seat on the Council. In order to implement the largely rule-governed system of collective security, it is necessary to have a Security Council that reflects a legitim…
Sustaining the United Nations
Too many cooks? The post-Rio reform of the United Nations
The UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio agreed to the creation of a new organ within the UN to coordinate the implementation of sustainable development policies. The Sustainable Development Commission represents a surprising achievement in view of the generally critical attitudes of some among the Group of Seven to creating new organs within the UN system. The UN Environmental Programme, cited for an expansion of its role has, ove…
The United Nations' role in sustainable development
Overhauling and coordinating the UN's internal organisation to reflect the change in consciousness from environment and development as two separate areas to sustainable development as an integrated policy is a formidable task. The newly created Commission on Sustainable Development has been charged with the tasks of UNCED follow up and national reporting, as well as aspects of UN system coordination. The role of UNEP has been strengthened. The UN…
Environmental security: A task for the UN system
Two issues have dramatized the revived potential for a decisive UN contribution to diplomacy in the 1990s. One is the rise of the environmental agenda as an issue at once, both genuinely global, and politically divisive. Conflict is generated because global warming, acid deposition, ozone depletion and marine pollution create real but also differential costs to the states of the world. The second issue, apparent since 1989, is the renewed opportu…
Re-reading Mitrany: A pragmatic assessment of sovereignty
David Mltrany's functionalism has provided an inspired, if widely criticized approach to the study of international organization, 1 Although originally conceived without regional restrictions in its application, it has been interpreted as a prescription for European integration hence the development of the formerly pervasive but now largely discredited neo-functionalist school. 2 The contention that will be advanced here is that Mitrany's work ma…
Re-reading Mitrany: A pragmatic assessment of sovereignty
David Mltrany's functionalism has provided an inspired, if widely criticized approach to the study of international organization, 1 Although originally conceived without regional restrictions in its application, it has been interpreted as a prescription for European integration hence the development of the formerly pervasive but now largely discredited neo-functionalist school. 2 The contention that will be advanced here is that Mitrany's work ma…
Teaching the politics of international organization
June 1985 marked the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the San Francisco conference on international organization that adopted the UN charter. This period, distinguished by the absence of war between the superpowers, is double the period that elapsed between 1918 and 1939. It was the hope and intention of those gathered at San Francisco that their labours would produce an institutional framework of collective security in which a recurrence o…
A comment
Robert McLaren is to be commended for his stimulating response to my article ‘Re-Reading Mitrany’ (Review of International Studies, 10, 2, 1984). He suggests that my discussion constituted the creation of ‘...an interpretive subset of Mitranian functionalism’. I would like to disclaim the attribution and attempt to demonstrate that the set of propositions derived from my discussion are: (a) genuinely attributable to the thrust of Mitrany's origin…
Environmental security: A task for the UN system
Two issues have dramatized the revived potential for a decisive UN contribution to diplomacy in the 1990s. One is the rise of the environmental agenda as an issue at once, both genuinely global, and politically divisive. Conflict is generated because global warming, acid deposition, ozone depletion and marine pollution create real but also differential costs to the states of the world. The second issue, apparent since 1989, is the renewed opportu…
Too many cooks? The post-Rio reform of the United Nations
The UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio agreed to the creation of a new organ within the UN to coordinate the implementation of sustainable development policies. The Sustainable Development Commission represents a surprising achievement in view of the generally critical attitudes of some among the Group of Seven to creating new organs within the UN system. The UN Environmental Programme, cited for an expansion of its role has, ove…
The United Nations' role in sustainable development
Overhauling and coordinating the UN's internal organisation to reflect the change in consciousness from environment and development as two separate areas to sustainable development as an integrated policy is a formidable task. The newly created Commission on Sustainable Development has been charged with the tasks of UNCED follow up and national reporting, as well as aspects of UN system coordination. The role of UNEP has been strengthened. The UN…
Environment, Security and UN Reform
This book presents a study of international relations theory and the role of the United Nations in international environmental negotiations. The book links discussion of three issues: the persistence
State of the world 1995: A Worldwatch Institute report on the progress toward a sustainable society
Journal Article State of the world 1995: a Worldwatch Institute report on the progress toward a sustainable society Get access State of the world 1995: a Worldwatch Institute report on the progress toward a sustainable society. By Lester R. Brownand others. London: Earthscan. 1995. 255pp. Index. Pb.: £12.95.ISBN 1 85383 247 2. Mark Imber Mark Imber 1University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Social theory and the global environment
Journal Article Social theory and the global environment Get access Social theory and the global environment. Edited by Michael Redcliftand Ted Benton. London: Routledge. 1994. 271pp. Index. £40.00; ISBN 0 415 11169 2. Pb.: £12.99; ISBN 0 415 11170 6. Mark Imber Mark Imber 1University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 1, January 1995, Page 154, https://do…
The United Nations system: The policies of member states and State, society and the UN system: changing perspectives on multilateralism
Journal Article The United Nations system: the policies of member states and State, society and the UN system: changing perspectives on multilateralism Get access The United Nations system: the policies of member states. Edited by Chadwick F. Alger, Gene M. Lyonsand John E. Trent. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. 1995. 510pp. $60.00. ISBN 92 808 0884 2.State, society and the UN system: changing perspectives on multilateralism. Edited by Ke…
Sustaining the United Nations
The impasse in UN reform
Books reviewed
Global Economy, Global Justice: Theoretical and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism George F. DeMartino Routledge (2000), London, ISBN 0415224012. Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future Finn Tarp, ed. Routledge (2000), London, ISBN 0415233631. Evaluating Development Aid: Issues, Problems and Solutions B.E. Cracknell Sage (2000), London. ISBN 0761994033. The Third World in the Age of Globalisation: Requiem or Ne…
The Environment and International Relations
Environmental issues and questions of global change are now firmly established on the international political agenda. This book provides a wide-ranging survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in international relations. This book begins by looking at the relevance of the different theoretical approaches current in international relations to the study of the environment. It analyzses a wide range of approaches from the debate betwe…
The Reform of the UN Security Council
This article focuses on the United Nations' reform debates, particularly those surrounding changes to the Security Council. These debates are largely about rules, both formal and informal, that shape the roles of the veto powers and the ways in which other member-states can attain a seat on the Council. In order to implement the largely rule-governed system of collective security, it is necessary to have a Security Council that reflects a legitim…
From Flanders to Fallujah: Rethinking remembrance
This article questions the attitudes of a sample group of British young people to the rituals of remembrance commonly observed in the United Kingdom during the second week of November. In view of the complete transformation of war and war service since 1919 - none of the fallen from current and recent wars in Afghanistan or Iraq are buried abroad or buried unknown, and none were conscripted - this article seeks to establish whether or not the est…
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