| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 255 pages) |
| Series |
Basic documents in world politics |
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Basic documents in world politics.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Ian Shapiro and Joseph Lampert -- Documents -- From the Joint Statement of Winston S. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 11, 1945 -- From the address to Congress reporting on the Yalta Conference, Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 1, 1945 -- Address to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco, Harry S. Truman, April 25, 1945 -- Charter of the United Nations -- Statute of the International Court of Justice -- Part I: The United Nations Charter : structure, origins, and institutional change -- The UN Charter : a global constitution? / Michael W. Doyle -- Lost in translation? The League of Nations and the United Nations / M. Patrick Cottrell -- Has the UN lived up to its charter? / Stephen Schlesinger -- Change and the United Nations Charter / Edward C. Luck -- Part II: Early impact and state formation -- The United Nations and the emergence of independent India / Srinath Raghavan -- Palestine and Israel at the United Nations : partition, recognition, and membership / Debra Shushan -- Namibian independence : a UN success story / Jean Krasno -- Part III: The United Nations in the contemporary world -- A history of UN peacekeeping / James Dobbins -- Fighting the last war : the United Nations Charter in the age of the War on Terror / Oona A. Hathaway -- Science and politics on a warming planet : the IPCC and the representation of future generations / Joseph Lampert |
| Summary |
This volume contains the full text of the United Nations Charter and the Statute of the International Court of Justice, as well as related historical documents. They are accompanied by ten original essays on the Charter and its legacy by distinguished scholars and former high-level UN officials. The commentaries illuminate the early and ongoing roles of the United Nations in responding to international crises, debates about the UN's architecture and its reform, and its role in global governance, climate change, peacekeeping, and development. A concise and accessible introduction to the UN for students, this collection also offers important new scholarship that will be of interest to experts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
United Nations. Charter.
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United Nations.
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| SUBJECT |
United Nations fast |
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Charter (United Nations) fast |
| Subject |
International law.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Treaties.
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International law
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shapiro, Ian, editor.
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Lampert, Joseph, editor.
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| LC no. |
2013036265 |
| ISBN |
9780300182538 |
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0300182538 |
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