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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Role of International Organizations in Today's World | |
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| Intellectual Roots of International Organization | |
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| Early Organizational Efforts | |
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| International Relations, Globalization, and Global Governance | |
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| International Organization and Governance in a Turbulent Time | |
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| A Great Experiment: The League of Nations | |
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| Founding of the League of Nations | |
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| Essential Features of the League | |
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| Successes and Failures of the League of Nations | |
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| General Assessment of the League of Nations | |
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| The Genesis of the United Nations | |
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| Preliminary Stages of Postwar Planning | |
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| The Dumbarton Oaks Conversations | |
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| From Yalta to San Francisco | |
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| The San Francisco Conference | |
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| Launching the New Organization | |
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| Basic Principles and Organization of the United Nations | |
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| Objectives of the United Nations | |
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| Basic Principles of the Charter | |
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| Principal Organs of the United Nations | |
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| Basic Structure and Operations of the United Nations | |
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| The Membership Issue | |
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| Problems of Representation | |
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| Voting Rules and Practices | |
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| Formal and Informal Charter Amendment | |
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| Financial Problems | |
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| Peaceful Settlement of Disputes | |
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| Importance of Peaceful Settlement | |
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| Charter Procedures and Methods | |
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| United Nations Experience--Survey and Case Studies | |
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| Changing Roles of UN Organs | |
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| General Appraisal and Future Requirements | |
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| Collective Security and its Alternatives: Theory and Practice | |
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| The Nature of Collective Security | |
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| The League of Nations and Collective Security | |
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| Charter Provisions and Realities | |
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| Peacekeeping Innovations | |
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| Case Studies in Collective Security and Peacekeeping | |
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| General Assessment of UN Practice | |
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| The Search for Justice under Law | |
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| Law in National and International Systems | |
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| Legal Developments before 1945 | |
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| The Charter as an Instrument of International Law | |
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| The Role of the International Court of Justice | |
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| The Role of the International Law Commission | |
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| Newly Established International Criminal Courts | |
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| Other Agencies Promoting World Law | |
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| Assessing Our Progress | |
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| Controlling the Instruments of War | |
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| Disarmament: A Discouraging History | |
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| Disarmament and Arms Control after World War II | |
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| Continued Frustrations Within and Outside the United Nations | |
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| Arms Control--One Step at a Time | |
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| The Need for Control | |
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| Varieties of Regionalism | |
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| The Pros and Cons of Regionalism | |
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| Regionalism under the UN Charter | |
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| Multipurpose Regional Organizations | |
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| Regional Security Organizations | |
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| Functional Regional Organizations | |
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| UN Regional Commissions | |
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| General Assessment of Regionalism | |
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| Globalization, Transnationalism, and International Organization | |
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| Perspectives | |
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| The Multinational Corporation | |
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| Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Relations | |
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| Transnationalism and Civil Society | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Promoting Economic Welfare | |
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| World Economic Interdependence | |
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| The UN Network of Agencies | |
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| Problems of Economic Development | |
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| Development Programs of the United Nations | |
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| Financing Economic Development | |
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| Rich Nations and Poor Nations | |
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| A Perspective on the Future | |
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| Managing Global Resources | |
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| Food and Agriculture | |
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| Population | |
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| Energy | |
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| Environment | |
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| Law of the Sea | |
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| Promoting Social Progress | |
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| Charter Goals and World Needs | |
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| Promoting Improved Health Standards | |
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| Focus on Child Welfare and Youth | |
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| The Question of Aging | |
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| Improving Conditions of Labor | |
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| Cooperation in Education, Science, and Culture | |
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| Combating Narcotic Drugs and Crime | |
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| Refugee Programs and Disaster Relief | |
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| Assessing Social Progress | |
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| Human Rights and the Struggle for Self-Government | |
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| The League Mandates System | |
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| Rush to Self-Government | |
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| The UN Trusteeship System | |
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| The Record of Trusteeship | |
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| The Charter and Non-self-governing Territories | |
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| Increasing Pressures for Emancipation | |
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| Problems of Residual Colonialism | |
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| Problems after Political Independence | |
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| Emphasis on Human Rights | |
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| International Administration and the Search for Leadership | |
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| The Development of the International Civil Service | |
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| The International Civil Servant in the United Nations | |
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| The Role of the Secretariat | |
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| Tasks and Influences of the Secretary-General | |
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| Bases of Influence and Leadership | |
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| The Need for International Leadership | |
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| International Organization in Retrospect and Prospect | |
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| Sources of Discouragement | |
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| Summary of Achievements | |
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| Future Needs and Prospects | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| General Sources | |
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| Selected Bibliography by Chapters | |
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| Covenant of the League of Nations | |
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| Charter of the United Nations | |
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| Members of the United Nations | |
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| Index | |