The United Nations And Other International Institutions

Author : Robert Edwon Riggs,Jack C. Plano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015029087437

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The United Nations by Robert Edwon Riggs,Jack C. Plano Pdf

The United Nations is an upper-division analysis of the history, processes, structure, and functions of the United Nations. It is intended for courses on international organizations, usually titled The United Nations, International Organization, International Development, or Conflict Resolution. The most successful one-volume text on the United Nations in the academic marketplace, it provides a comprehensive treatment that is adaptable to a variety of course approaches. The third edition does not alter the organization of the previous editions; no less significant, the basic historical material that made up the core of the first two editions remains intact in this latest rendering. Nevertheless, the book has been revised from cover to cover, redrafted to reflect significant changes in the world after the Cold War and the effect of those changes on the character and work of the United Nations.

Author : Simon Chesterman,Ian Johnstone,David M. Malone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199399505

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Law and Practice of the United Nations by Simon Chesterman,Ian Johnstone,David M. Malone Pdf

Law and Practice of the United Nations: Documents and Commentary combines primary materials with expert commentary demonstrating the interaction between law and practice in the UN organization, as well as the possibilities and limitations of multilateral institutions in general. Each chapter begins with a short introductory essay describing how the documents that ensue illustrate a set of legal, institutional, and political issues relevant to the practice of diplomacy and the development of public international law through the United Nations. Each chapter also includes questions to guide discussion of the primary materials, and a brief bibliography to facilitate further research on the subject. This second edition addresses the most challenging issues confronting the United Nations and the global community today, from terrorism to climate change, from poverty to nuclear proliferation. New features include hypothetical fact scenarios to test the understanding of concepts in each chapter. This edition contains expanded author commentary, while maintaining the focus on primary materials. Such materials enable a realistic presentation of the work of international diplomacy: the negotiation, interpretation and application of such texts are an important part of what actually takes place at the United Nations and other international organizations. This work is ideal for courses on the United Nations or International Organizations, taught in both law and international relations programs.

Author : Rumki Basu
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120727754

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The United Nations: Structure & Functions Of An International Organisation by Rumki Basu Pdf

Author : United Nations. Documentation, Reference, and Terminology Section
Publisher : New York : United Nations
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : UOM:39015024910138

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Acronyms and abbreviations covering the United Nations system and other international organizations by United Nations. Documentation, Reference, and Terminology Section Pdf

Author : Kuljit Ahluwalia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789401509893

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The Legal Status, Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations and Certain Other International Organizations by Kuljit Ahluwalia Pdf

The past century has been a period of revolutionary change in many fields of human activity, in institutions and in thought. This period has seen the need of adjustment of state institutions and legal concepts to the needs of greater international cooperation. During the half century preceding the First World War, cooperation by governments outside the traditional diplomatic channels and procedures was largely limited to highly technical organizations, commonly referred to as public international unions, dealing with such matters as the im provement of postal communications and the control of contagious diseases. With the establishment of the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization at the end of the First World War, organized international cooperation assumed greater importance and the need was recognized of giving to the instruments of such cooper ation legal status and rights which would facilitate the effective performance of their functions. This proved to be a difficult adjustment for legal theory to make since the enjoyment of special privileges and immunities had been based in traditional international law on the fiction of state sovereignty. The new international organizations, while performing functions of the kind performed by national govern ments, were far from possessing the powers of such governments. The failure of the League of Nations to achieve its major purpose did not signify any permanent decline in the role of organized inter national cooperation.

Author : Donald Puchala,Katie Verlin Laatikainen,Roger Coate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317342687

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United Nations Politics by Donald Puchala,Katie Verlin Laatikainen,Roger Coate Pdf

United Nations Politics takes a unique approach that focuses on the politics that is, the persistent and mostly singular emphasis that all member states place on the pursuit of national political, economic, cultural and ideological interests of UN affairs. The project began as an effort to research and write a ten-year-later sequel to The Challenge of Relevance written by Puchala and Coate in 1989. This earlier volume was an assessment of the United Nations and its operations in the late eighties. United Nations Politics builds from a series of some 200 interviews conducted at the UN and in various member-state missions between 2000 and 2005. Among other things , these interviews revealed that the existing English-language literature on the UN fails to take into appropriate account the dynamics and the impacts of the internal and external political contexts within which the UN operates. This book directly addresses this shortcoming in the academic literature.

Author : John E. Trent
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783866499102

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Modernizing the United Nations System by John E. Trent Pdf

This book contends that civil society must mobilize its capacities to bring a new will to national and international politics and oblige governments to act. It starts by demonstrating the need for institutional change at the UN and then shows how, both in the past and the present, leading individuals and nongovernmental organizations, using their knowledge base and their organizational networks, have lead the fight for international organizations. After a summary of major UN reform proposals over the years, the book concludes by identifying leading global ""reformers"" and elaborating a detailed plan for a global reform movement to spearhead the modernization of the UN system.

Author : Alvin LeRoy Bennett,James K. Oliver
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015050167538

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International Organizations by Alvin LeRoy Bennett,James K. Oliver Pdf

Preface p. IX Chapter 1 Introduction p. 1 The Role of International Organizations in Today's World p. 2 Intellectual Roots of International Organization p. 4 Early Organizational Efforts p. 9 International Relations, Globalization, and Global Governance p. 13 International Organization and Governance in a Turbulent Time p. 24 Chapter 2 A Great Experiment: The League of Nations p. 27 Founding of the League of Nations p. 28 Essential Features of the League p. 30 Successes and Failures of the League of Nations p. 38 General Assessment of the League of Nations p. 43 Chapter 3 The Genesis of the United Nations p. 46 Preliminary Stages of Postwar Planning p. 47 The Dumbarton Oaks Conversations p. 51 From Yalta to San Francisco p. 52 The San Francisco Conference p. 54 Launching the New Organization p. 57 Chapter 4 Basic Principles and Organization of the United Nations p. 59 Objectives of the United Nations p. 60 Basic Principles of the Charter p. 61 Principal Organs of the United Nations p. 65 Chapter 5 Basic Structure and Operations of the United Nations p. 80 The Membership Issue p. 80 Problems of Representation p. 85 Voting Rules and Practices p. 91 Formal and Informal Charter Amendment p. 96 Financial Problems p. 98 Chapter 6 Peaceful Settlement of Disputes p. 107 Importance of Peaceful Settlement p. 107 Charter Procedures and Methods p. 108 United Nations Experience--Survey and Case Studies p. 113 Changing Roles of UN Organs p. 139 General Appraisal and Future Requirements p. 142 Chapter 7 Collective Security and its Alternatives: Theory and Practice p. 145 The Nature of Collective Security p. 145 The League of Nations and Collective Security p. 149 Charter Provisions and Realities p. 151 Peacekeeping Innovations p. 156 Case Studies in Collective Security and Peacekeeping p. 163 General Assessment of UN Practice p. 175 Chapter 8 The Search for Justice under Law p. 178 Law in National and International Systems p. 179 Legal Developments before 1945 p. 182 The Charter as an Instrument of International Law p. 183 The Role of the International Court of Justice p. 186 The Role of the International Law Commission p. 201 Newly Established International Criminal Courts p. 204 Other Agencies Promoting World Law p. 205 Assessing Our Progress p. 209 Chapter 9 Controlling the Instruments of War p. 212 Disarmament: A Discouraging History p. 213 Disarmament and Arms Control after World War II p. 216 Continued Frustrations Within and Outside the United Nations p. 218 Arms Control--One Step at a Time p. 221 The Need for Control p. 234 Chapter 10 Varieties of Regionalism p. 236 The Pros and Cons of Regionalism p. 236 Regionalism under the UN Charter p. 239 Multipurpose Regional Organizations p. 244 Regional Security Organizations p. 256 Functional Regional Organizations p. 262 UN Regional Commissions p. 270 General Assessment of Regionalism p. 272 Chapter 11 Globalization, Transnationalism, and International Organization p. 274 Perspectives p. 274 The Multinational Corporation p. 277 Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Relations p. 282 Transnationalism and Civil Society p. 290 Conclusion p. 295 Chapter 12 Promoting Economic Welfare p. 297 World Economic Interdependence p. 298 The UN Network of Agencies p. 305 Problems of Economic Development p. 309 Development Programs of the United Nations p. 312 Financing Economic Development p. 322 Rich Nations and Poor Nations p. 326 A Perspective on the Future p. 328 Chapter 13 Managing Global Resources p. 331 Food and Agriculture p. 331 Population p. 337 Energy p. 340 Environment p. 343 Law of the Sea p. 350 Chapter 14 Promoting Social Progress p. 358 Charter Goals and World Needs p. 358 Promoting Improved Health Standards p. 361 Focus on Child Welfare and Youth p. 364 The Question of Aging p. 366 Improving Conditions of Labor p. 368 Cooperation in Education, Science, and Culture p. 372 Combating Narcotic Drugs and Crime p. 376 Refugee Programs and Disaster Relief p. 379 Assessing Social Progress p. 382 Chapter 15 Human Rights and the Struggle for Self-Government p. 384 The League Mandates System p. 385 Rush to Self-Government p. 387 The UN Trusteeship System p. 389 The Record of Trusteeship p. 392 The Charter and Non-self-governing Territories p. 396 Increasing Pressures for Emancipation p. 398 Problems of Residual Colonialism p. 400 Problems after Political Independence p. 400 Emphasis on Human Rights p. 401 Chapter 16 International Administration and the Search for Leadership p. 412 The Development of the International Civil Service p. 412 The International Civil Servant in the United Nations p. 416 The Role of the Secretariat p. 421 Tasks and Influences of the Secretary-General p. 424 Bases of Influence and Leadership p. 434 The Need for International Leadership p. 437 Chapter 17 International Organization in Retrospect and Prospect p. 439 Sources of Discouragement p. 440 Summary of Achievements p. 442 Future Needs and Prospects p. 447 Bibliography p. 451 General Sources p. 451 Selected Bibliography by Chapters p. 452 Appendix I Covenant of the League of Nations p. 462 Appendix II Charter of the United Nations p. 472 Appendix III Members of the United Nations p. 498 Index p. 503.

Author : Maurizio Ragazzi
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004256088

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Responsibility of International Organizations by Maurizio Ragazzi Pdf

In December 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Law Commission's articles on the responsibility of international organizations, bringing to conclusion not only nearly ten years of reflection by the Commission, governments and organizations on this specific topic, but also decades of study of the wider subject of international responsibility, which had initially focused on State responsibility. Parallel to this reflection by the Commission, diplomats and public officials, the body of international case-law and literature on the many facets of the topic has steadily been growing. Responsibility of International Organizations: Essays in Memory of Sir Ian Brownlie contributes to the body of international literature by collecting a broad spectrum of different and sometimes differing perspectives from well-known experts in the field, ranging from the bench to the Commission, academia, and the world of in-house counsel. The book is also a memorial to the renowned Sir Ian Brownlie, himself a former Chairman of the International Law Commission who, as a leading scholar and practitioner, greatly contributed to the reflection on international responsibility, including the responsibility of international organizations. Edited by Maurizio Ragazzi, a former pupil of Sir Ian, the book is an ideal companion to International Responsibility Today, a collection of essays on international responsibility which the same editor presented in 2005 in memory of Oscar Schachter, and to which Sir Ian Brownlie had contributed. The essays collected in Responsibility of International Organizations: Essays in Memory of Sir Ian Brownlie, conveniently grouped by the editor under broad areas for the reader's benefit, will be relevant not only to all those interested in this specific subject but also, more generally, to all those engaged in the field of international law and the law of international organizations.

Author : John E. Trent,Laura Schnurr
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847412168

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A United Nations Renaissance by John E. Trent,Laura Schnurr Pdf

This short introduction to the United Nations analyzes the organization as itis today, and how it can be transformed to respond to its critics. Combiningessential information about its history and workings with practical proposalsof how it can be strengthened, Trent and Schnurr examine what needs to bedone, and also how we can actually move toward the required reforms. Thisbook is written for a new generation of change-makers — a generation seekingbetter institutions that reflect the realities of the 21st century and that can actcollectively in the interest of all.

Author : Chadwick F. Alger
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 9280809733

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The Future of the United Nations System by Chadwick F. Alger Pdf

What does the future hold for the UN? In this book, twenty-two scholars from all continents contribute twelve chapters that cover prevention of violence, creating economic and social structures that sustain human fulfilment, sharing and protecting the commons, and peace education. The search for future potential, based on experience in these twelve "laboratories," leads to sixty-six recommendations for new institutions and programs on issues that include controlling weapons, humanitarian intervention, collaboration between UN peacekeepers and NGOs, human rights, economic policies, advancement of women, refugees, ecological security, communications, and peace education. These recommendations are brought together in a concluding chapter and summarized in the appendix. Most of the recommendations do not require amendments to the UN Charter or to the treaties establishing the UN Specialized Agencies. Instead, their implementation would require creative efforts of Member States, secretariats, NGOs, and dedicated individuals that are pointed toward attainment of multilateral capacity for coping with an array of global problems that increasingly threaten the quality of human life. This is stimultaing reading for anyone who wants to be challenged to think creatively about the potential for coping with a growing array of global problems.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210053891

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UN75 - The Future We Want, the United Nations We Need by United Nations Pdf

In January 2020, the United Nations launched the global consultation to mark its 75th anniversary. Through surveys and dialogues, it asked people about their hopes and fears for the future – representing the UN’s most ambitious effort to date to understand expectations of international cooperation and of the UN in particular. It is also the largest survey to date on priorities for recovering from the COVID-19 (coronavirus, COVID) pandemic. By September 2020, over a million people from all countries and all walks of life had taken part. Their answers provide unique insights into what the public wants at this challenging time. The key findings are contained in this publication.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9211013720

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The Essential UN. by United Nations Pdf

"Everything you always wanted to know about the United Nations in one book! This primer to the United Nations is designed for all global citizens. It covers the history of the UN, what it does and how it does it. As the world's only truly global organization, the United Nations is where countries meet to address universal issues that cannot be resolved by any one of them acting alone. From international peace and security to sustainable development, climate change, human rights, and humanitarian action, the United Nations acts on our behalf around the world." --

Author : Paul Taylor,A.J.R. Groom
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826447783

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United Nations at the Millennium by Paul Taylor,A.J.R. Groom Pdf

This book provides unparalleled coverage of each of the principal organs of the United Nations. This collection offers a survey of the life of each organ since its inception in 1945, the extent to which is has fulfilled its founding mission, and proposals for reform.As well as providing comprehensive coverage of the present role of this highly influential organization, the book addresses larger questions about the role of the U.N. and the fitness for purpose of its principal organs as a means to global governance.

Author : Jacob Katz Cogan,Ian Hurd,Ian Johnstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1345 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199672202

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The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations by Jacob Katz Cogan,Ian Hurd,Ian Johnstone Pdf

This text provides an authoritative account of the law and politics of international organisations. Looking at the role, function and history of organisations, it offers a wide ranging and thorough analysis of the area.--