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United Nations International Organization and World Politics

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ISBN-10: 053463186X

ISBN-13: 9780534631864

Edition: 4th 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Lawrence Ziring, Robert E. Riggs, Jack A. Plano

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The fourth edition of THE UNITED NATIONS heralds an organization at the crossroads of history. This best-selling text is a comprehensive volume of all that is relevant of the United Nations system from its inception to these opening years of the millennium, analyzing the history, processes, structure and functions of the organization. While the thread of terror weaves its way through the text, every effort has been made to discuss the world organization's continuing role in assisting nations and peoples in distress from underdevelopment, from population overload, from pandemic disease, and political instability.
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List price: $149.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 6/22/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Larry Ziring is the Arnold E. Schneider Professor of Political Science at Western Michigan University. Author/editor of more than twenty books, his latest publication is PAKISTAN: AT THE CROSSCURRENT OF HISTORY (2003). Currently engaged in studying the evolution of terrorism and its impact on the international system, he recently completed a study of the anatomy of terror in South Aisa. Among his recent publication are: PAKISTAN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1997) and an edition in Urdu (2003), INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: A POLITICAL DICTIONARY (1995), BANGLADESH FROM MUJIB TO ERSHAD (1992), and THE MIDDLE EAST: A POLITICAL DICTIONARY (1992). Director of the Western Michigan University graduate…    

The United Nations in Historical Perspective
Prologue
In the Beginning
The State System and International Organization
The Emergence of International Institutions
The League Experiment
Organizing the United Nations
Legal Framework, Institutional Structures, and Financial Realities
The Constitutional Structure
Instruments of Political Decision Making
Financing the United Nations
The UN Political Process
Participants in the UN Decision Process
UN Decision Making
The Consequences of UN Action
Politics and the UN Secretariat
The International Civil Service
The UN Secretariat
The UN Secretariat in the Political Process
Revitalizing the United Nations
Security Through Collective Action
Balance of Power and Collective Security
The United Nations and Collective Security
The Peacekeeping Alternative
The Settlement of International Disputes
Procedures for Settling International Disputes
UN Practice
Case Studies in UN Conflict Resolution
Settling International Disputes and Humanitarian Law
Global Security and the United Nations
Conclusions on Dispute Settlement
Disarmament and Arms Control
Disarmament in Historical Perspective
The UN and Arms Negotiations in the Nuclear Era
Disarmament and Arms Control--A Balance Sheet
Obstacles to Disarmament
Approaches to the Disarmament Problem
Conclusion
The Revolution of Self-Determination
Mandates Under the League
The Effect of World War II
UN Trusteeship
The United Nations and Total Decolonization
The UN Role: An Appraisal
Self-Determination in the Twenty-first Century
Social and Technical Cooperation
Functional Cooperation in The ory and Practice
Human Rights Rule-Making
Rules in Other Functional Settings
Information and Promotion
Internationally Administered Programs
Conclusion
Promoting Economic Development
Problems of Development
A Blueprint for Economic Development
Promoting International Action
UN Programs
The Role of the International Monetary Fund
UN Development Financing Programs: the World Bank Group
Conclusion on Economic Development
The United Nations in the Twenty-First Century
Rethinking the United Nations in the Age of Terrorism
The United Nations and the Definition of Terrorism
Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century
The Realities of the Global Condition
Toward World Order
Appendix: the Charter of the United Nations