Emerging Powers and the UN

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science, and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, USA.Adriana Erthal Abdenur is Professor of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and General Coordinator of the BRICS Policy Center.

• Introduction: emerging powers and the UN – what kind of development partnership? Part I – Inequalities And Multilateralism: Revisiting The North-South Axis 1. Assessing the G77: 50 years after UNCTAD and 40 years after the NIEO 2. South–South cooperation and the international development battlefield: between the OECD and the UN 3. How representative are BRICS? Part II – The Changing Development Cooperation Landscape 4. Financing the UN development system and the future of multilateralism 5. Emerging powers at the UN: ducking for cover? 6. A changing world: is the UN development system ready? 7. South–South cooperation and the future of development assistance: mapping actors and options 8. Emerging powers as normative agents: Brazil and China within the UN development system 9. Emerging powers and the UN development system: canvassing global views 10. War-torn countries, natural resources, emerging-power investors and the UN development system