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The United Nations : reality and ideal / Peter R. Baehr and Leon Gordenker.
Van Pelt Library JZ4984.5 .B34 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baehr, P. R. (Peter R.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 196 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Summary:
- The United Nations: Reality and Ideal examines the structure, operation and history of the United Nations. It explains the historical roots of the UN system and its legal and organizational structures and sets out what the organization and its partners do in relation to major global events and issues. This revised and updated edition gives extended attention to peace-maintenance, human rights, economic and social development and examines the special position of the United States.
- Contents:
- Independent states 1
- Interdependent societies 2
- International law 3
- Reforming world politics 4
- Conferences and decisions 6
- Functional cooperation in the 19th century 7
- The Concert of Europe 9
- The Hague Peace Conferences 10
- The League of Nations 10
- World War II and the UN 14
- The San Francisco Conference 17
- 2 Charter and Structure of the United Nations 19
- Close relatives 20
- The General Assembly 22
- The Security Council 24
- The Economic and Social Council 25
- The Trusteeship Council 26
- The International Court of Justice 27
- The Secretariat 29
- Cluster of UN agencies 33
- Organizational tension 35
- 3 Membership and Decision-making 42
- Chinese representation 43
- Divided states 43
- Ministates 44
- Weighted voting 45
- Decision-making processes 46
- Fundamental changes 48
- Voting groups 48
- Groups and voting positions 51
- The political significance of resolutions 52
- Slow decision-making 55
- Finances 56
- U.S. debt to UN 58
- 4 The Maintenance of Peace and Security 61
- Pacific settlement of disputes 62
- Coercive measures 64
- Practical use of Charter concepts 67
- Israel and neighbors 67
- Cyprus 68
- Congo 69
- New style peace operations 69
- Namibia 69
- Cambodia 71
- Collective coercive measures 72
- Korea 72
- Iraq and the attack on Kuwait 73
- After Iraq I 78
- Terror attacks on the United States 79
- Iraq II 79
- Frustrations in Middle East 81
- Uniting for peace 82
- Hybrid forms of peace-keeping 84
- Somalia 84
- Yugoslavia 85
- Rwanda 88
- Haiti 89
- Central America 90
- Second thoughts on peace-keeping 90
- Limits and potentials in maintaining peace 92
- Arms control and weapons of mass destruction 94
- Non-proliferation 96
- Ban on nuclear testing 96
- Demilitarized and nuclear-free zone 97
- Chemical and biological weapons 97
- 5 Human Rights and Decolonization 100
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 103
- The international covenants for human rights 106
- Other human rights activities 110
- High Commissioner for Human Rights 112
- The Israeli-Occupied Territories 113
- Specialized Agencies 113
- The International Criminal Court 114
- The right of self-determination 114
- Declaration on non-self-governing territories 115
- The Trusteeship System 116
- Declaration on Granting of Independence 116
- The imposition of economic sanctions 117
- East Timor (Timor Leste) 118
- Remaining colonial issues 118
- Apartheid 119
- 6 Cooperation for Economic and Social Progress 125
- Global conferences 126
- Economic and social data 128
- Reduction of poverty 129
- Technical assistance 130
- UN Population Fund 133
- UN Capital Development Fund 133
- UN University 133
- UN Volunteers 134
- UN Children's Fund 134
- UN Conference on Trade and Development 134
- New International Economic Order 137
- The global environment 138
- Refugees and disasters 140
- Narcotics drug control 141
- AIDS 142
- Conventional economic, social and cultural cooperation 143
- 7 The 21st Century: a Changing UN 146
- Collective legitimization 148
- The Soviet Union 149
- The Five Policemen 150
- The Third World 151
- The United States 152
- The Secretary-General 153
- The specialized agencies 155
- The UN in the 21st century 157
- Appendix Charter of the United Nations 159.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: The United Nations at the end of the 1990s. 3rd ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403949042
- 1403949050
- OCLC:
- 60516764
- Publisher Number:
- 9781403949042 (hbk.)
- 9781403949059 (pbk.)
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