United
Nations Studies at Yale (Now Closed) Please note that UNSY closed on August 31, 2006.
UN Studies
at Yale (UNSY) was established in 1993 under the auspices
of International Security Studies at Yale. Bruce
Russett,
Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and
Political Science, was its Director. UNSY was one of the premier university
centers for analysis of the UN. Beginning with its
role as the Secretariat for the Ford Foundation-sponsored
report issued in 1995, The UN in its Second Half-Century,
UNSY became an ongoing and cumulative source of ideas
about the role of international organizations in a
transforming international system. Its programs had
the goals of training the next generation of scholars
and practitioners and providing intellectual input
and assessments to analysts of the UN system.
UNSY
brought policy makers with high-level expertise in
the operation of the UN system together with skilled
academic analysts with a record of applying their analytical
techniques to important international issues. It carried
on a range of research programs, conferences, and workshops.
In addition, it sustained associated research and training
programs in Yale College and the Graduate and Professional
Schools, with activities including faculty and graduate
student colloquia; support for faculty and student
research; and policy and organizational recommendations
useful to the UN, other international organizations,
governments, and citizens.
The UNSY site formerly hosted
content for The Journal of Conflict Resolution, edited
by Prof. Russett. The Journal’s site is now hosted
by Sage Journals Online.
The following
UNSY projects related to the history of the UN are preserved
on this site:
The Gilman Conference on New
Directions in International Relations:
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UNSY became an ongoing and cumulative source of ideas
about the role of international organizations in a
transforming international system. Its programs had
the goals of training the next generation of scholars
and practitioners and providing intellectual input
and assessments to analysts of the UN system.