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Unesco and international politics
IR Working paper, 5, Department of International Relations, The Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University (ANU)
1986
Abstract
UNESCO has been, and still is, an important part of the global environment. The Organisation was established in 1946 to foster intellectual cooperation at an international level and work for the development of the sciences, arts, education, culture and communications. Through these areas of activity UNESCO has come to play a significant role in international politics. In recent years Western critics have accused this UN agency of, among other things, extraneous politicisation, but it was Western countries that politicised UNESCO in the 1940s and 1950s. From the 1960s, UNESCO, like similar UN agencies, has been influenced substantially by Third World countries, which have also attempted to use their numerical preponderance to re-define certain concepts and norms of international behaviour. In spite of UNESCO's recent problems, the Organisation will continue to play an important role in world politics.
Details
- Title
- Unesco and international politics
- Authors/Creators
- Samuel M Makinda
- Series
- IR Working paper; 5
- Publisher
- Department of International Relations, The Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University (ANU); Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Number of pages
- 23
- Identifiers
- 9780731501601; 0731501608; 991005578653207891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Indo-Pacific Research Centre; College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences; Centre for Biosecurity and One Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book
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