The UN and Beyond: United Democratic Nations

The UN and Beyond: United Democratic Nations is a muscular indictment of the United Nations five years after 9/11. A compilation of essays from nineteen experts in government, politics, journalism, and academia, the book challenges the assumption that there is no alternative to the UN.

The central argument is passionately argued and delivered: the UN today is a political battlefield where democracies (89 to 103) are outnumbered and outgunned; despotic regimes, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and the Non-Aligned Movement call the policy shots; and power-grabs by EU back-benchers subvert coordinated action among free nations jockeying for influence and dominance within their own sphere.

The authors turn the spotlight on escalating anti-Americanism and anti-semitism within the UN, where Islamic countries manipulate shifting coalitions to transform every and any platform - the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council, the Commission on the Status of Women - into launching pads for political, policy, and public-opinion strikes against Israel and the United States.

The answer, according to this battleplan, lies in the creation of an alternative to the UN, a "United Democratic Nations" (UDN) in which genuine democracies might reclaim and refocus the world's attention on the ideas so bravely articulated in the original UN Charter.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword: Lawrence Kadish
Introduction: Herb London
Part I: Promise and Reality at the UN
Chapter 1: Anne Bayefsky
Chapter 2: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Chapter 3: Walid Phares
Chapter 4: Michael Krauss
Chapter 5: John R. Bolton
Chapter 6: Natan Sharansky
Part II: UN Reform Fact or Fiction?
Chapter 7: Senator Norm Coleman
Chapter 8: Senator Tom Coburn
Chapter 9: Brett D. Schaefer
Chapter 10: James Bone
Chapter 11: Claudia Rosett
Chapter 12: Pedro A. Sanjuan
Part III: Beyond the UN Multilateralism for Democracies
Chapter 13: Frank Luntz
Chapter 14: Jed Babbin
Chapter 15: Joshua Muravchik
Chapter 16: Michel Gurfinkiel
Chapter 17: Bernard Lewis
Chapter 18: Norman Podhoretz
Chapter 19: William J. Bennett