Overview

This guide to the workings of the United Nations details the purposes and structure of the organization, with specific chapters on peace and security, disarmament and human rights. In the final chapter, the problems facing the UN are examined. Tables provide information on the size and distribution of UN membership, peace-keeping operations and the use of the Security Council veto. It also includes the full text of the UN Charter.

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Author:   Larry Bailey ,  Sam Daws ,  Sam Daws (Head, UN and Conflict Programme, United Nations Association, London)
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780333629161

ISBN 10:   0333629167
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   13 December 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9780333629178
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Purposes; structure; groups and blocs; peace and security; disarmament; human rights; has the UN a future? Appendices: the UN Charter; UN members (1 January 1994); states or territories which are not UN members.

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Sydney D. Bailey is a Visiting Research Scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Foreign Office Advisory Committee on the UN and Disarmament. Sam Daws is Head of the UN and Conflict Program at the United Nations Association in London.

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