The United Nations : an introduction
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The United Nations : an introduction
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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Vereinten Nationen
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Nihon University College of International Relations Library国際
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Adapted and updated translation of the 3rd German ed., 2003
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-270) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This major new text, highly acclaimed in its original German version, is now available for the first time in English in a substantially revised and updated translation. It provides a systematic introduction to the main areas of activity of the United Nations today and to its organization and evolution as well as an evaluation of its likely role and prospects for reform in the twenty-first-century.
Table of Contents
- The United Nations System
- Institution-Building, Regime Impact, and Globalization: Role and Function of the UN
- The Core of the United Nations: Collective Security
- The Changing Practice of Peacekeeping
- The United Nations and Human Rights: Normative Development, Codification, and Definition
- Human Rights Protection: Institutional Framework and Code of Practice
- Economic, Developmental and Environmental Questions in the UN: problem Areas and Institutional Design
- Reforms for the 21st Century
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- Index
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