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Delegations to the United Nations

Delegations to the United Nations

United Nations

... Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative, United Nations Office, Geneva •H.E. Dr. Alfonso de ROSENZWEIG DIAZ, Jr.2 Ministry of Foreign Affairs H.E. Dr. Mario Espinosa de LOS REYES2 Ambassador Extraordinary and  ...
New Millennium, New Perspectives: The United Nations, ...

New Millennium, New Perspectives: The United Nations, ...

United Nations University

The authors of this volume tie together the worlds of ideas and policy. They are united in the conviction that academic and policy debates must be integrated if they are to be translated into feasible and relevant options.
The United Nations

The United Nations

Edna Epstein

Discusses the purpose and organization of the United Nations and describes the work of its many specialized agencies.
The First Book of the United Nations

The First Book of the United Nations

Edna Epstein

Discusses the purpose and organization of the United Nations and describes the work of its many specialized agencies.
Reforming the United Nations [electronic resource]: the ...

Reforming the United Nations [electronic resource]: the ...

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The United Nations is in need of reform. There has always been widespread agreement that this is the case - indeed throughout the 60-year history of the Organization.
The United Nations

The United Nations

Harold Woods

Describes the history, goals, organization, and specialized agencies of the United Nations and examines the world problems it encounters.
Search for Peace: The Story of the United Nations

Search for Peace: The Story of the United Nations

William Jay Jacobs

An overview of the United Nations: its formation, its successes and failures as international peacekeeper, the prospects for the future.
The United Nations: Confronting the Challenges of a Global ...

The United Nations: Confronting the Challenges of a Global ...

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An accessible introduction to the politics and processes of the United Nations, tracing the evolution of the organization from its founding to the present debates about reform.
United Nations: A History

United Nations: A History

Stanley Meisler

This is an important, riveting, and impartial guide through the past and recent events of the sixty-five-year history of the United Nations.
United Nations: A History

United Nations: A History

Stanley Meisler

This is an important, riveting, and impartial guide through the past and recent events of the sixty-five-year history of the United Nations.
Effectiveness and Reform of the United Nations Development ...

Effectiveness and Reform of the United Nations Development ...

Stephan Klingebiel

The United Nations' development co-operation has often been criticized in the past; many shortcomings can indeed be identified.
Effectiveness and Reform of the United Nations Development ...

Effectiveness and Reform of the United Nations Development ...

Stephan Klingebiel

The United Nations' development co-operation has often been criticized in the past; many shortcomings can indeed be identified.
Korea and the United Nations

Korea and the United Nations

Chi Young Pak

This book deals with the political and legal issues of the Korean question in the United Nations. This is the first in-depth analysis of the meaning and effects of the Korean problem in UN politics.
The United Nations Security Council in the Age of Human Rights

The United Nations Security Council in the Age of Human Rights

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Anthony W. Gambino The United Nations (UN) has been deeply involved in the Democratic Republic of the Congo1 since just a few weeks after June 30, 1960, when the Congo gained its independence from Belgium. The post-independence  ...
The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective ...

The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective ...

Ramesh Thakur

Explains the United Nations' key roles in underwriting international security, humanitarian protection and the international rule of law.
Making Global Institutions Work

Making Global Institutions Work

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... System Thepolitics of incrementalism Silke Weinlich (DuisburgEssen University) The United Nations as a Knowledge Organization Nanette Svenson ( Tulane University) United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations ( UNCTC) Khalil ...
US-Japan-North Korea Security Relations: Irrepressible Interests

US-Japan-North Korea Security Relations: Irrepressible Interests

Anthony DiFilippo

49 United Nations,Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, New York, http://disarmament.un.org/TreatyStatus.nsf (accessedon May 2, 2007);Chi YoungPak,KoreaandtheUnitedNations (Boston: Kluwer Law ...
The European Union at the United Nations: The Functioning ...

The European Union at the United Nations: The Functioning ...

Maximilian B. Rasch

Schattenmann, Marc, “Uniting for Peace resolution”, in A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations, ed. by Helmut Volger (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002), pp. 574–6. Schermers, Henry G. and Niels M. Blokker, International ...
21st Century Democracy Promotion in the Americas: Standing ...

21st Century Democracy Promotion in the Americas: Standing ...

Jorge Heine

... incrementalism by Silke Weinlich (DuisburgEssen University) The United Nations as a Knowledge Organization by Nanette Svenson (Tulane University) United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) by Khalil Hamdani and ...
The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

Jussi M. Hanhimäki

The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete.
Transforming the United Nations System: Designs for a ...

Transforming the United Nations System: Designs for a ...

Joseph E. Schwartzberg

587–582 (arguing, counter to Childers and Urquhart, in defence of a decentralized system); Klaus Hüfner, “UN System”, in Helmut Volger (ed.), A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations, 2nd edn, Leiden and Boston, MA: Martinus Nijhoff, ...
The United Nations Development Programme and System

The United Nations Development Programme and System

Stephen Browne

This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system throughout the developing world –the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
United Nations Industrial Development Organization: ...

United Nations Industrial Development Organization: ...

Stephen Browne

The mandate of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is close to many of the core issues now confronting developing and transition economy countries, and this book offers the first concise and accessible guide to ...
United Nations Juridical Yearbook 2005

United Nations Juridical Yearbook 2005

United Nations

Edited by Thomas Cottier, Joost Pauwelyn and Elisabeth Burgi Bonanomi ( Oxford, [England]; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). p. 205- 231. Petersmann, Ernst-Ulrich. Human rights and international trade law: defining and connecting ...
United Nations Development Programme and System (UNDP)

United Nations Development Programme and System (UNDP)

Stephen Browne

This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system throughout the developing world –the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on ...

Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on ...

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Best Interests, Welfare and Well-being Elaine E. Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane. 1 Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Challenges of Vagueness and Priorities ◈ Elaine E. Sutherland A ...

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