The United Nations /
The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimaki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understandi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
c2008.
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| Series: | Very short introductions.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The best hope of mankind?: A brief history of the UN; 2 An impossible hybrid: the structure of the United Nations; 3 Facing wars, confronting threats: the UN Security Council in action; 4 Peacekeeping to peacebuilding; 5 Economic development to human development; 6 Rights and responsibilities: human rights to human security; 7 Reform and challenges: the future of the United Nations; Chronology; Glossary: acronyms of major UN organs and agencies used in the text; References; Further reading; Index.
