Research Catalog

Title

The United Nations : reality and ideal / Peter R. Baehr and Leon Gordenker.

Author

Baehr, P. R. (Peter R.)

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Gordenker, Leon, 1923-

Description

xviii, 196 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

The United Nations: Reality and Ideal examines the structure, operation and history of the United Nations. It explains the historical roots of the UN system and its legal and organizational structures and sets out what the organization and its partners do in relation to major global events and issues. This revised and updated edition gives extended attention to peace-maintenance, human rights and economic and social development and examines the special position of the United States.

Subject

• LAW > International
• United Nations
• Verenigde Naties

Note

• Rev. ed. of: The United Nations at the end of the 1990s. 3rd ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Charter and Structure of the United Nations -- Membership and Decision-Making -- The Maintenance of Peace and Security -- Human Rights and Decolonization -- Cooperation for Economic and Social Progress -- The 21st Century -- Appendix: Charter of the United Nations -- Bibliography.

ISBN

• 1403949042 (cloth)
• 1403949050 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005046333

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library