Research Catalog

Title

The United Nations : international organization and world politics / Lawrence Ziring, Robert E. Riggs, Jack C. Plano.

Author

Ziring, Lawrence, 1928-

Publication

Fort Worth : Harcourt College Publishers, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Plano, Jack C.
• Riggs, Robert Edwon, 1927-

Description

viii, 552 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• International organization
• United Nations
• World politics > 1945-
• World politics > 1945-1989

Note

• Rev. ed. of: The United Nations / Robert E. Riggs, Jack C. Plano. 2nd ed. c1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The United Nations in historical perspective -- 2. Legal framwork, institutional structures, and financial realities -- 3. The UN political process -- 4. Politics and the UN secretariat -- 5. Security through collective action -- 6. The settlement of international disputes -- 7. Disarmament and arms control -- 8. The revolution of self-determination -- 9. Social and technical cooperation -- 10. Managing international trade and finance -- 11. Promoting economic development -- 12. Looking back toward and uncertain future : the Unitd Nations and the twenty-first century -- Appendices. (A) The Covenant of the League of Nations -- (B) The Charter of the United Nations -- (C) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- (D) United Nations member states -- (E) NGO Working Group on the Security Council -- list of associated organizations.

ISBN

0155078658

LCCN

^^^99064030^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library