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Author:   Helmut Volger
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Edition:   2nd New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 5.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.735kg
ISBN:  

9789004180048

ISBN 10:   9004180044
Pages:   962
Publication Date:   07 December 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction How to use this book Abbreviations Africa as Topic in the UN (Konrad Melchers) Addendum (Helmut Volger) Agenda for Development (Klaus Hufner) Agenda for Peace (Erwin A. Schmidl) Aggression, Definition of (Ulrich Fastenrath) Budget (Klaus Hufner) Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States (Mir A. Ferdowsi) Addendum ( Antje Hennings) Charter of the UN (Manfred Knapp) Collective Security (Peter J. Opitz) Addendum (Irene Weinz) Committees, System of (Helmut Volger) Common Heritage of Mankind (Gregor Kolk) Addendum (Christian J. Tams) Control Mechanisms in the UN, External and Internal (Klaus Hufner) Coordination in the UN System (Dieter Goethel) CSD - Commission on Sustainable Development (Jurgen Maier) Decolonization (Heike Henn) Addendum (Sally Morphet) Democratization and the UN (Jens Naumann) Addendum (Helmut Volger) Depository Libraries (Ramona Kohrs) Deutscher Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), Positions of the German Parties towards the UN (Wolfgang Ehrhart) Addendum (Helmut Volger) Deutscher Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), Subcommittee on the United Nations (Eberhard Brecht / Wolfgang Ehrhart) Addendum (Helmut Volger) Development Concepts, Development Research (Inge Kaul) Development Cooperation of the UN System (Inge Kaul) Disarmament (Hans Gunter Brauch) Documentation System (Ramona Kohrs) Economic Commissions, Regional (Peter Tobias Stoll) ECOSOC - Economic and Social Council (Wolfgang Sproete) Addendum (Helmut Volger) Electoral Assistance (Simone Schwanitz) Addendum (Helmut Volger) Enemy State Clauses (Joern Axel Kammerer) Environmental Law, International (Ulrich Beyerlin / Jenny Grote) Environmental Protection (Jurgen Maier) European Union, Common Foreign and Security Policy at the UN (Hans Arnold) Addendum (Frank Hoffmeister) FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization (Barbara Hofner) Addendum (Friederike Hoffmann) Financial Crises (Klaus Hufner) General Assembly (Jurgen Heideking ) Addendum (Reinhard Wesel) Geneva Group (Gunther Altenburg) Addendum (Helmut Volger) German Translation Section (Ruprecht Paque) Globalization (Sabine von Schorlemer) Addendum (Thomas Fues) Group of 77 and the UN (Mir A. Ferdowsi) Addendum (Sally Morphet) Groups and Groupings in the UN (Ingo Winkelmann) History of the Foundation of the UN (Helmut Volger) History of the UN (Helmut Volger) Host State Agreements (Hans-Joachim Heintze) Human Development Reports (Stephan Klingebiel / Marius Hildebrand) Human Rights (Norman Weiss) Human Rights, Protection of (Theo van Boven) Human Rights, United Nations High Commissioner for (Alfred de Zayas) Human Rights, Universal Declaration of (Peter J. Opitz) Addendum (Norman Weiss) Human Rights Committee (Eckart Klein) Human Rights Conventions and their Measures of Implementation (Martina Haedrich) Human Rights Conventions, CAT - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Martina Haedrich) Human Rights Conventions, CCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Eckart Klein) Human Rights Conventions, CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Hanna Beate Schoepp-Schilling) Human Rights Convention, CERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Martina Haedrich) Human Rights Conventions, CESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Eckart Klein) Human Rights Conventions, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Martina Haedrich) Human Rights Conventions, CRC - Convention on the Rights of the Child (Joachim Betz) Human Rights Council (Helmut Volger) Humanitarian Assistance (Gita Swamy Meier-Ewert) Humanitarian Law, International (Hans-Joachim Heintze) IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency (Marc Schattenmann) Addendum (Helmut Volger) ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization (Helmut Volger) ICC - International Criminal Court (Sabine von Schorlemer) ICJ - International Court of Justice (Karin Oellers-Frahm) Addendum (Karin Oellers-Frahm) ILC - International Law Commission (Bruno Simma) ILO - International Labour Organization (Christian Jetzlsperger) IMF - International Monetary Fund (Martina Metzger) IMO - International Maritime Organization (Helmut Volger) Independent Commissions, Reports of (Heike Henn) Addendum (Thomas Fues) INSTRAW - International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (Andreas Blatte) Addendum (Irene Weinz) International Economic Relations and New International Economic Order (NIEO) (Mir A. Ferdowsi) Addendum (Thomas Fues) International Law and the UN (Martina Haedrich) International Organizations, Theory of (Klaus Dicke / Manuel Froehlich) Internet, Websites of the UN System in the (Peter M. Schulze / Helmut Volger) Intervention, Prohibition of (Isabelle Reinery) Addendum (Markus Pallek) ITLOS - International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Stefan Talmon) ITU - International Telecommunication Union (Helmut Volger) Languages (Ruprecht Paque) Languages, Official (Ruprecht Paque) Languages, Working (Ruprecht Paque) Law of the Sea (Stefan Talmon) League of Nations (Jost Dulffer) Membership and Representation of States (Stefan Talmon) Minorities, Protection of (Ekkehard Strauss) NGOs - Non-Governmental Organizations (Peter M. Schulze / Helmut Volger) Non-Aligned Movement and the UN (Wolfgang Sproete) Addendum (Sally Morphet) North-South Relations and the UN (Joachim Betz) Observers (Erwin A. Schmidl) Observer Status (Anne-Kathrin Dippel) Peace, Peace Concept, Threat to Peace (Karlheinz Koppe) Peaceful Settlement of Disputes (Norbert Ropers) Addendum (Daniela Koerppen) Peacekeeping (Brian Urquhart) Peacekeeping Forces (Manfred Eisele) Peacekeeping Operations (Erwin A. Schmidl) Permanent Missions (Andrea Roth) Personnel (Dieter Goethel) Preventive Diplomacy (Norbert Ropers) Addendum (Daniela Koerppen) Principal Organs, Subsidiary Organs, Treaty Bodies (Helmut Volger) Public Information of the UN (Axel Wustenhagen) Addendum (Helmut Volger) Public Opinion and the UN (Reinhard Wesel) Publications (Ramona Kohrs) Reform of the UN (Klaus Dicke / Manuel Froehlich) Regional Groups in the UN (Ingo Winkelmann) Regionalization (Birgit Reichenstein) Addendum (Irene Weinz) Research about the UN (Gunther Unser) Resolution, Declaration, Decision (Bardo Fassbender) Rules of Procedure (General Assembly, Security Council) (Bardo Fassbender) Sanctions (Manfred Kulessa) Secretariat (Helmut Volger) Secretary-General (Helmut Volger) Security Council (Ingo Winkelmann) Self-Determination, Right of (Hans-Joachim Heintze) Sovereignty (Bardo Fassbender) Space Law (Hans-Joachim Heintze) Specialized Agencies (Klaus Hufner) Stamps (Ruprecht Paque) Terminology (Ruprecht Paque) Trade, International Law of (Joern Axel Kammerer) Treaties, Law of (Brigitte Reschke) Trusteeship Council (Helmut Volger) UNCITRAL - United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (Patrick Oliver Ott) Addendum (Felix Boor) UNCIVPOL - United Nations Civilian Police (Erwin A. Schmidl) UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Mir A. Ferdowsi) Addendum (Thomas Fues) UNDP - United Nations Development Programme (Stephan Klingebiel / Marius Hildebrand) UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme (Jurgen Maier) UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Klaus Hufner) UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund (Manfred Kulessa) UN Guards (Erwin A. Schmidl) UN-HABITAT (Helmut Volger) UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Athar Sultan-Khan) UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund (Jana Mittermaier) Addendum (Helmut Volger) UNIDIR - United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (Sverre Lodgaard) UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Manfred Kulessa) UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women (Andreas Blatte) Addendum (Sabrina Neutz) UN in Bonn (Helmut Volger) UNITAR - United Nations Institute for Training and Research (Marina Walter / Daniela Bottigelli) Uniting for Peace Resolution (Helmut Volger) Universality (Bardo Fassbender) UN Office Geneva (Hans J. Lassen / Egbert C. Kaltenbach) UN Office Nairobi (Helmut Volger) UN Office New York (Helmut Volger) UN Office Vienna (Helmut Volger) UN Policy, China (Oskar Weggel) UN Policy, France (Ursula Stiel) Addendum (Therese Gastaut) UN Policy, German Democratic Republic (Bernhard Neugebauer) Addendum (Bernhard Neugebauer) UN Policy, Germany (Hans Arnold) Addendum (Helmut Volger) UN Policy, Japan (Gunther Unser) Addendum (Gunther Unser) UN Policy, Russian Federation (Gunther Unser) UN Policy, United Kingdom (Alexander Theodoridis / Gregor Kolk) Addendum (Jochen Prantl) UN Policy, USA (Frank Zitka) Addendum (Jochen Prantl) UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Hans Peter Kotthaus) Addendum (Denise Junker) UN Simulations, Model United Nations (Reinhard Wesel) UN System (Klaus Hufner) UNTS - United Nations Treaty Series (Claudia Shirin Weisser / Sherry Holbrook) UNU - United Nations University (Klaus Hufner) UNV - United Nations Volunteers (Manfred Kulessa) UNWTO - World Tourism Organization (Helmut Volger) UPU - Universal Postal Union (Helmut Volger) Use of Force, Prohibition of (Brigitte Reschke) Veto, Right of Veto (Volker Loewe) Addendum (Christian J. Tams) Voting Right and Decision-Making Procedures (Bardo Fassbender) WFC - World Food Council (Barbara Hofner) Addendum (Friederike Hoffmann) WFP - World Food Programme (Barbara Hofner) Addendum (Friederike Hoffmann) WFUNA - World Federation of United Nations Associations (Klaus Hufner) WHO - World Health Organization (Wilfried Kreisel) WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization (Helmut Volger) WMO - World Meteorological Organization (Helmut Volger) Women and the UN (Sonja Woelte) World Bank (IBRD), World Bank Group (IFC/IDA/MIGA/ICSD) (Martina Metzger) World Conferences (Franz Nuscheler) World Reports (Helmut Volger) WTO - World Trade Organization, GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Peter Tobias Stoll) Charter of the United Nations List of the Member States of the United Nations Information Facilities of the United Nations UN Documentation System Contributing Authors Index

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'.. .this Concise Encyclopedia is an excellent resource for anyone serious about the United Nations.'<br>Jeffrey Laurenti, The InterDepent.<br>'.. .a single volume that impressively brings together historical background, current dilemmas, political analysis, and extant proposals for reform as they affect the many agencies of the decentralized UN system.'<br>Jeffrey Laurenti, Security Dialogue, 2003.<br>' The Encylopedia is a usefool tool for academics and practitioners alike.'<br>Anja Papenfuss, Transatlantic Internationale Politik, 2002.

'.. .this Concise Encyclopedia is an excellent resource for anyone serious about the United Nations.'Jeffrey Laurenti, The InterDepent.'.. .a single volume that impressively brings together historical background, current dilemmas, political analysis, and extant proposals for reform as they affect the many agencies of the decentralized UN system.'Jeffrey Laurenti, Security Dialogue, 2003.' The Encylopedia is a usefool tool for academics and practitioners alike.'Anja Papenfuss, Transatlantic Internationale Politik, 2002.

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Dr. Helmut Volger (Dr. phil. 1987 in Political Sciences, Free University Berlin) has written, co-edited and edited numerous books and encyclopedias on the United Nations.

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