President of the United Nations General Assembly: least-known leader

Alistair D. Edgar

Chapter 14 in Handbook on Governance in International Organizations, 2023, pp 215-230 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the evolution of the Office of the President of the General Assembly (OPGA) as an institution, and in particular the role and influence of the President of the General Assembly (PGA) as an individual actor. It reviews the presidencies of Paul-Henri Spaak, Vijay Lakshmi Pandit, and Mogens Lykketoft, and efforts towards the ‘revitalization’ of the General Assembly, to evaluate whether, and how, the OPGA as an institution and the PGA as an individual, exercise agency. Do they make a substantive - independent, effective - difference in the operations and outputs of the General Assembly and the UN system?

Keywords: Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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