An insider's guide to the UN
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
c2004.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- An overview
- UN founding documents
- The Secretary General and the Secretariat
- The American ambassadors
- The Security Council
- Peace operations
- The General Assembly
- Coordinating to fight international terrorism
- The UN village
- Rights versus sovereignty: the US and the International Criminal Court
- The call for reform
- UN finances
- A tour of UN headquarters
- The coup against Boutros-Ghali
- UN advocates, donors, and friends
- Keeping tabs on how nations vote
- Making a career at the UN
- ECOSOC
- Agencies, programs, and commissions
- Rule of law and human rights
- Social and economic development
- Protecting the biosphere and its inhabitants
- UN to the rescue
- Nuclear, biological, and chemical threats
- Guiding globalization: how the UN helps make things work
- International crime and drug trafficking.