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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Independent states | |
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| Interdependent societies | |
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| International law | |
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| Reforming world politics | |
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| Conferences and decisions | |
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| Functional cooperation in the 19th century | |
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| The Concert of Europe | |
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| The Hague Peace Conferences | |
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| The League of Nations | |
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| World War II and the UN | |
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| The San Francisco Conference | |
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| Charter and Structure of the United Nations | |
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| Close relatives | |
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| The General Assembly | |
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| The Security Council | |
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| The Economic and Social Council | |
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| The Trusteeship Council | |
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| The International Court of Justice | |
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| The Secretariat | |
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| Cluster of UN agencies | |
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| Organizational tension | |
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| Membership and Decision-making | |
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| Chinese representation | |
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| Divided states | |
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| Ministates | |
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| Weighted voting | |
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| Decision-making processes | |
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| Fundamental changes | |
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| Voting groups | |
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| Groups and voting positions | |
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| The political significance of resolutions | |
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| Slow decision-making | |
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| Finances | |
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| U.S. debt to UN | |
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| The Maintenance of Peace and Security | |
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| Pacific settlement of disputes | |
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| Coercive measures | |
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| Practical use of Charter concepts | |
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| Israel and neighbors | |
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| Cyprus | |
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| Congo | |
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| New style peace operations | |
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| Namibia | |
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| Cambodia | |
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| Collective coercive measures | |
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| Korea | |
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| Iraq and the attack on Kuwait | |
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| After Iraq I | |
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| Terror attacks on the United States | |
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| Iraq II | |
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| Frustrations in Middle East | |
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| Uniting for peace | |
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| Hybrid forms of peace-keeping | |
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| Somalia | |
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| Yugoslavia | |
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| Rwanda | |
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| Haiti | |
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| Central America | |
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| Second thoughts on peace-keeping | |
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| Limits and potentials in maintaining peace | |
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| Arms control and weapons of mass destruction | |
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| Non-proliferation | |
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| Ban on nuclear testing | |
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| Demilitarized and nuclear-free zone | |
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| Chemical and biological weapons | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Human Rights and Decolonization | |
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| The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| The international covenants for human rights | |
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| Other human rights activities | |
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| High Commissioner for Human Rights | |
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| The Israeli-Occupied Territories | |
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| Specialized Agencies | |
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| The International Criminal Court | |
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| The right of self-determination | |
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| Declaration on non-self-governing territories | |
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| The Trusteeship System | |
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| Declaration on Granting of Independence | |
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| The imposition of economic sanctions | |
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| East Timor (Timor Leste) | |
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| Remaining colonial issues | |
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| Apartheid | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Cooperation for Economic and Social Progress | |
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| Global conferences | |
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| Economic and social data | |
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| Reduction of poverty | |
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| Technical assistance | |
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| UN Population Fund | |
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| UN Capital Development Fund | |
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| UN University | |
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| UN Volunteers | |
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| UN Children's Fund | |
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| UN Conference on Trade and Development | |
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| New International Economic Order | |
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| The global environment | |
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| Refugees and disasters | |
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| Narcotics drug control | |
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| AIDS | |
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| Conventional economic, social and cultural cooperation | |
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| The 21st Century: a Changing UN | |
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| Collective legitimization | |
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| The Soviet Union | |
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| The Five Policemen | |
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| The Third World | |
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| The United States | |
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| The Secretary-General | |
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| The specialized agencies | |
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| The UN in the 21st century | |
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| Charter of the United Nations | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |