The United Nations International Organization and World Politics

by Ziring, Lawrence; Riggs, Robert E.; Plano, Jack A.

• ISBN13: 9780534631864
• ISBN10: 053463186X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-22
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

THE UNITED NATIONS: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND WORLD POLITICS is a comprehensive guide to all that is relevant to the United Nations from its inception to these opening years of the millennium, analyzing the history, processes, structure and functions of the organization.While the thread of terror weaves its way through the text, the textbook discusses the United Nation's continuing role in assisting nations and peoples in distress from underdevelopment, from population overload, from pandemic disease, and political instability.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The United Nations in Historical Perspective	1	(30)
Prologue	1	(7)
In the Beginning	8	(1)
The State System and International Organization	9	(2)
The Emergence of International Institutions	11	(2)
The League Experiment	13	(10)
Organizing the United Nations	23	(8)
Legal Framework, Institutional Structures, and Financial Realities	31	(43)
The Constitutional Structure	31	(7)
Instruments of Political Decision Making	38	(27)
Financing the United Nations	65	(9)
The UN Political Process	74	(59)
Participants in the UN Decision Process	74	(11)
UN Decision Making	85	(40)
The Consequences of UN Action	125	(8)
Politics and the UN Secretariat	133	(34)
The International Civil Service	136	(2)
The UN Secretariat	138	(7)
The UN Secretariat in the Political Process	145	(15)
Revitalizing the United Nations	160	(7)
Security Through Collective Action	167	(97)
Balance of Power and Collective Security	168	(6)
The United Nations and Collective Security	174	(39)
The Peacekeeping Alternative	213	(51)
The Settlement of International Disputes	264	(60)
Procedures for Settling International Disputes	264	(3)
UN Practice	267	(15)
Case Studies in UN Conflict Resolution	282	(31)
Settling International Disputes and Humanitarian Law	313	(3)
Global Security and the United Nations	316	(2)
Conclusions on Dispute Settlement	318	(6)
Disarmament and Arms Control	324	(49)
Disarmament in Historical Perspective	325	(7)
The UN and Arms Negotiations in the Nuclear Era	332	(6)
Disarmament and Arms Control--A Balance Sheet	338	(19)
Obstacles to Disarmament	357	(9)
Approaches to the Disarmament Problem	366	(4)
Conclusion	370	(3)
The Revolution of Self-Determination	373	(24)
Mandates Under the League	374	(4)
The Effect of World War II	378	(1)
UN Trusteeship	379	(4)
The United Nations and Total Decolonization	383	(7)
The UN Role: An Appraisal	390	(2)
Self-Determination in the Twenty-first Century	392	(5)
Social and Technical Cooperation	397	(73)
Functional Cooperation in Theory and Practice	397	(7)
Human Rights Rule-Making	404	(20)
Rules in Other Functional Settings	424	(16)
Information and Promotion	440	(8)
Internationally Administered Programs	448	(16)
Conclusion	464	(6)
Promoting Economic Development	470	(45)
Problems of Development	470	(7)
A Blueprint for Economic Development	477	(9)
Promoting International Action	486	(2)
UN Programs	488	(12)
The Role of the International Monetary Fund	500	(3)
UN Development Financing Programs: The World Bank Group	503	(6)
Conclusion on Economic Development	509	(6)
The United Nations in the Twenty-First Century	515	(20)
Rethinking the United Nations in the Age of Terrorism	518	(4)
The United Nations and the Definition of Terrorism	522	(2)
Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century	524	(3)
The Realities of the Global Condition	527	(2)
Toward World Order	529	(6)
Appendix The Charter of the United Nations	535	(22)
Name Index	557	(4)
Subject Index	561