Preferred futures for the United Nations
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Preferred futures for the United Nations
Transnational Publishers, c1995
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"First published in slightly different form in the Fall 1994 issue of Transnational law and contemporary problems (vol. 4, no. 2) and served as preparatory reading for a symposium held at The University of Iowa on 12-14 April 1995 and entitled 'UN50: Preferred Futures for the United Nations'"--Pref
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The authors here discern a "humane" impulse rising against the prevailing tendencies of market-driven opportunism-an impulse rapidly becoming manifest in international law. With focus on the United Nations and the norms, processes, and institutions with which it responds to militarism and war, poverty and maldevelopment, ecological imbalance, social justice, and alienation, they suggest workable initiatives and procedures through which relevant United Nations agencies might be reformed and/or transformed to effectively meet the new challenges of the next century.
CONTRIBUTORS: Hilary Charlesworth, Kenneth K.S. Dadzie, Richard Falk, Hilary F. French, Bjoeern Hettne, Robert C. Johansen, David W. Kennedy, B.G. Ramcharan, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Peter Weiss.
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