International institutions at work
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International institutions at work
Pinter, 1988
- : pbk
- : hard
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  Toyama
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  Kyoto
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  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book focuses upon the structure and work of international institutions in a range of areas that are specific to the present day. Part 1 is an account of the basic functions and the emergence of international institutions, together with a discussion of the role of Secretariats. In the second and main part of the book a range of authors examine the work of institutions in particular empirical areas. It provides a guide to the problems of maintaining international peace and security, ways of coping with disaster, approaches to human rights and the development of the poorer countries of the world. The book concludes with an assessment of present systems and possible reforms. This paperback edition is published in anticipation of the editors' "Frameworks for International Co-operation".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The emergence and capacity of international institutions: the advent of international organisation
- the United Nations as a political system
- the role of the secretariats of international institutions. Part 2 Institutions at work: the institutional basis of post war economic co-operation
- the question of peace and security
- the origin and development of the ILO and international labour organisations
- the United Nations and human rights
- the United Nations - a suitable place for disaster?
- international institutions and the common heritage of mankind - sea, space and the polar regions
- the International Telecommunications Union
- the Commonwealth - a bond that held. Part 3 Assessment and reform: reflections on the UN system
- thinking about change.
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