Pre-emptive compounds in the United Nations terminology --- That is a highly relevant notion for the United Nations. We use qualifiers that do no bring positive connotations, but try to consecrate new concepts. The qualifier brings new contents to the classic notion and, even more, tries to impose a new concept, independent from the original one. Marie and Andre know that already, but I need to explain what I meant.

1. The UN worked with the notion of economic development, where economic meant quantitative indicator like GDP per capita, production of steel or corn per capita. In the early 90's the UN started to work with the "human development" concept, where the "human" addition was represented by life expectancy and years of schooling.

2. Another example is the concept of "human security" where "human" was meant to change the perception that the state security coincides automatically with the security of people.

3. Sustainable development, decent work, smart sanctions were other compounds that signify the emergence of new concepts used in the global governance, not just addition of connotations.

Source author: Petru Dumitriu PetruD@diplomacy.edu