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Jointly with the
United Nations University (UNU), China Institute is presenting at a
book launch event on 23 February 2008, from 2pm
to 4pm. The event will feature a new book
authored by Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud, Head of the
United Nations University Office at the UN in
New York (UNU-ONY). The book is entitled
Towards the
International Rule of Law: UN’s Response to
Humanitarian Crises (《迈向国际法治：联合国对人道主义危机的回应》),
and the preface was written by Wang Guangya,
Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations.
Towards the
International Rule of Law, by Dr.
Jean-Marc Coicaud, will be published in Chinese
by the SDX Joint publishing company in Beijing
in February 2008. The book addresses the extent
and limits of international solidarity, focusing
on the limits. It discusses the United Nations
as an international bureaucracy, the
socialization of international life by
international law, and the ambiguous role of key
democratic countries, which are at the same time
the underwriters and undermines of the
international system.
At the book launch,
Dr. Coicaud will introduce his new book and
Ambassador Wang Guangya will then give comments
on the book and contribute his insights on the
role of China in the context of the UN. It is
the hope of the event organizer that this book
launch will contribute to raising awareness and
the level of debate about the role of the UN,
multilateralism, and the role of China in the
international system.
Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud
heads the United Nations University (UNU) Office
at the United Nations in New York. He was Senior
Academic Officer at the UNU in Tokyo from 1996
to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the
Executive Office of the United Nations
Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former
fellow at Harvard University), Coicaud has held
appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative
Aide with the European Parliament, Associate
Professor at the University of Paris, and
Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale
Supérieure-Ulm in Paris. Coicaud holds a Ph.D.
in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a
Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut
d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, he
holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in
literature and linguistics.
Jean-Marc Coicaud
is the author of the following single-authored
books: L’introuvable démocratie autoritaire
(1996), Légitimité et Politique (1997),
Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to
the Study of Political Right and Political
Responsibility (Cambridge University Press,
2002, also available in Spanish, Japanese,
Chinese and Arabic), Beyond the National
Interest (2007) and, in Japanese, Limits
of the UN/Future of the UN (2007). He
co-authored Power in Transition: The Peaceful
Change of International Order (2001). He
co-edited Ethics and International Affairs:
Extent and Limits (2001), The Legitimacy
of International Organizations (2001),
The Globalization of Human Rights
(2003) and, Ethics in Action: The Ethical
Challenges of International Human Rights
Nongovernmental Organizations (2007). In
2008, he is publishing, in Chinese, Towards
the International Rule of Law, as well as
two new co-edited volumes, National Interest
and International Solidarity: Particular and
Universal Ethics in International Life and,
The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past.
Jean-Marc Coicaud is now working on a new
single-authored book, Kissing War Good-bye:
The Morality of International Politics.
Free admissions,
but advance registration is required. To
register online, please fill out the following
form. To register by phone, please call
212-744-8181, ext. 142.
For inquiries, please email
renwen@chinainstitute.org.
Location: China
Institute, 125 East 65th Street, New
York, NY 10021 |
