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| List of Figures, Tables, and Photos | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Ways of Thinking About the United Nations and International Organizations | |
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| International Organizations | |
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| Theories of International Relations | |
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| Realism | |
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| Idealism | |
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| Marxism | |
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| Critical Theory and Constructivism | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Dependency Theory | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| Other Theories | |
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| The United Nations | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Many Places of the United Nations | |
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| The UN System | |
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| New York City | |
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| Geneva, Switzerland | |
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| Nairobi, Kenya | |
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| Vienna, Austria | |
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| The Hague, The Netherlands | |
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| Montreal, Canada | |
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| Rome, Italy | |
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| Pristina, Serbia-Montenegro (Kosovo Province), and Dili, Timor-Leste | |
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| The New United Nations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Resources for Further Research | |
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| Origins and History of the United Nations | |
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| Overview of Early Historical Efforts to Establish International Organization | |
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| International Relations before the Twentieth Century | |
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| The Concert of Europe | |
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| The League of Nations and World War II | |
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| The League of Nations | |
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| Woodrow Wilson and the Elemental Weaknesses of the League | |
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| U.S. and Allied Visions of the Post-World War II Period | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) | |
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| Winston Churchill (1874-1965) | |
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| Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) | |
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| Three Wartime Conferences | |
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| Dumbarton Oaks Conference | |
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| Yalta Conference | |
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| Bretton Woods Conference | |
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| UN Conference on International Organization | |
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| Eleanor's UN: Beyond International Peace and Security | |
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| Specialized Agencies and Eleanor's UN | |
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| Nongovernmental Organizations and Eleanor's UN | |
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| Millennium Summit Goals and Eleanor's UN | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| Korea | |
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| Nuclear Weapons | |
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| Persisting Tensions | |
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| Waning of the Cold War | |
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| Iraq and the Post-Cold War United Nations | |
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| September 11, 2001, and the Age of Terrorism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Resources for Further Research | |
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| The Evolving UN Charter | |
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| Contents of the Charter | |
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| Amendments to the Charter | |
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| Informal Modifications of the Charter | |
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| Chapter VI1/2 Provisions | |
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| The Cold War, Expanding Membership, and the Charter | |
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| Membership | |
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| North-South Relations and the United Nations | |
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| National Liberation and the United Nations | |
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| The Non-Aligned Movement and the United Nations | |
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| Evolution of International Law | |
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| Financial Crisis and the Impetus for Reform | |
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| The Continuing Budget Crisis | |
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| Scale of Assessment and the Budget Process | |
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| U.S. Nonpayment of UN Dues and the Demand for Reforms: Is the United Nations Worth It? | |
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| UN Reform | |
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| Efforts by Perez de Cuellar and Boutros-Ghali to Accommodate U.S. Demands for Reform | |
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| Kofi Annan and the Reform "Revolution" | |
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| Scandal and the United Nations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Resources for Further Research | |
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| Evolving Institutions | |
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| Coordination of the UN System | |
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| Principal Organs | |
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| General Assembly | |
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| Security Council | |
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| Economic and Social Council | |
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| Trusteeship Council | |
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| Secretariat | |
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| International Court of Justice | |
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| Specialized Agencies, Programmes and Funds, and Other Groups | |
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| Specialized Agencies | |
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| Programmes and Funds | |
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| Other Groups | |
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| New Structures on the Global Stage | |
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| World Conferences | |
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| The Global Compact | |
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| Special Rapporteurs | |
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| Human Rights Tribunals | |
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| Globalization, Bretton Woods Institutions, and the United Nations | |
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| Bretton Woods Conference | |
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| World Bank | |
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| International Monetary Fund | |
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| World Trade Organization | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Resources for Further Research | |
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| Maintenance of International Peace and Security | |
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| Historical Perspective on International Peace and Security | |
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| The Concept of Collective Security | |
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| Collective Security Provisions of the UN Charter | |
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| Legal Authority for Collective Security: UN Charter Chapters VI and VII | |
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| Collective Security under Cold War Conditions | |
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| Uniting for Peace Resolution | |
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| Emergency Special Sessions of the General Assembly | |
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| Peacekeeping and Military Observer Groups | |
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| Disarmament and Arms Control | |
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| Changing Disarmament Priorities | |
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| Post-Cold War Collective Security | |
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| Smart Sanctions | |
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| The UN's Longest Collective Security Crisis: The Arab-Israeli Dispute | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Resources for Further Research | |
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| Peacekeeping and Nation Building | |
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| The Origination of Peacekeeping in the United Nations | |
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| Important Cold War Peacekeeping Missions | |
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| UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan | |
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| UN Operation in the Congo | |
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| UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus | |
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| UN Disengagement Observer Force | |
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| UN Interim Force in Lebanon | |
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| Second-Generation Peacekeeping | |
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| UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations | |
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| Early Nation-Building Missions | |
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| Later Second-Generation Peacekeeping Missions | |
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| Brahimi Report | |
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| Peace Building | |
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| Africa | |
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| Somalia | |
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| The Congo | |
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| Sierra Leone and Liberia | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Resources for Further Research | |
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| Making Global Public Policy: Promoting Civil Society, Human Rights, and Women's Empowerment | |
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| The Emergence of Thematic Diplomacy | |
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| The Age of the Nongovernmental Organization | |
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| Special Rapporteurs | |
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| The Global Compact | |
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| Global Civil Society | |
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| Human Rights | |
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| The Policy Process | |
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| The Judicial Process | |
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| Women's Rights | |
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| Securing Group Rights through Public Mobilization | |
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| Research on Women | |
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| Assistance to Women | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Resources for Further Research | |
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| Economic Development, the Environment, and Health Policy | |
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| Backdrop to Economic Development Policy | |
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| UN Conference on Trade and Development | |
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| UN Development Programme | |
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| The Right to Development and the Least Developed Countries | |
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| The Environment and Sustainable Development | |
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| UN Environment Programme | |
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| Atmosphere and Climate Change | |
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| Water Pollution and Marine Resources | |
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| Biodiversity and Natural Resources | |
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| Desertification and Deforestation | |
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| International Financing | |
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| Sustainable Human Development: The Fight against HIV/AIDS | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Resources for Further Research | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Charter of the United Nations | |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| Un Member States | |
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| Statute of the International Court of Justice | |
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| Secretaries-General of the United Nations | |
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| Selected Un Resolutions | |
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| Acronyms and Abbreviations | |
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| Index | |