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The Oxford handbook on the United Nations / edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: xxviii, 810 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780199560103 (pbk.)
  • 0199560102 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • United Nations
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.23
LOC classification:
  • R JZ 4970 O98 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
pt.1. Introduction -- World politics: continuity and change since 1945.
pt.2. Theoretical frameworks -- Political approaches -- Legal perspectives -- Evolution in knowledge.
pt.3. Principal organs -- General Assembly -- Security Council -- Economic and Social Council -- Trusteeship Council -- Secretariat: independence and reform -- Secretary-General -- International Court of Justice.
pt.4. Relationships with other actors -- Regional groups and alliances -- Bretton Woods institutions -- Civil society -- Private sector -- Media.
pt.5. International peace and security -- Disarmament -- Peaceful settlement of disputes and conflict prevention -- Peacekeeping operations -- Sanctions -- Peace enforcement -- Humanitarian intervention -- Post-conflict peacebuilding -- terrorism.
pt.6. Human rights -- Norms and machinery -- International criminal court and ad hoc tribunals -- Humanitarian action and coordination -- Women and gender -- Children -- Minorities and indigenous peoples -- Human security.
pt.7. Development -- Coordinating economic and social affairs -- Health and infectious disease -- Natural resource management and sustainable development -- Organized crime -- Democracy and good governance -- Human development.
pt.8. Prospects for reform -- Principal organs -- Financing -- Widening participation.
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First paperback edition. 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [716]-732) and indexes.

pt.1. Introduction -- World politics: continuity and change since 1945.

pt.2. Theoretical frameworks -- Political approaches -- Legal perspectives -- Evolution in knowledge.

pt.3. Principal organs -- General Assembly -- Security Council -- Economic and Social Council -- Trusteeship Council -- Secretariat: independence and reform -- Secretary-General -- International Court of Justice.

pt.4. Relationships with other actors -- Regional groups and alliances -- Bretton Woods institutions -- Civil society -- Private sector -- Media.

pt.5. International peace and security -- Disarmament -- Peaceful settlement of disputes and conflict prevention -- Peacekeeping operations -- Sanctions -- Peace enforcement -- Humanitarian intervention -- Post-conflict peacebuilding -- terrorism.

pt.6. Human rights -- Norms and machinery -- International criminal court and ad hoc tribunals -- Humanitarian action and coordination -- Women and gender -- Children -- Minorities and indigenous peoples -- Human security.

pt.7. Development -- Coordinating economic and social affairs -- Health and infectious disease -- Natural resource management and sustainable development -- Organized crime -- Democracy and good governance -- Human development.

pt.8. Prospects for reform -- Principal organs -- Financing -- Widening participation.

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