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An insider's guide to the UN

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Main Author: Fasulo, Linda M.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
Subjects:
United Nations > Popular works.
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Table of Contents:
  • An overview
  • UN founding documents
  • The Secretary General and the Secretariat
  • The American ambassadors
  • The Security Council
  • Peace operations
  • The General Assembly
  • Coordinating to fight international terrorism
  • The UN village
  • Rights versus sovereignty: the US and the International Criminal Court
  • The call for reform
  • UN finances
  • A tour of UN headquarters
  • The coup against Boutros-Ghali
  • UN advocates, donors, and friends
  • Keeping tabs on how nations vote
  • Making a career at the UN
  • ECOSOC
  • Agencies, programs, and commissions
  • Rule of law and human rights
  • Social and economic development
  • Protecting the biosphere and its inhabitants
  • UN to the rescue
  • Nuclear, biological, and chemical threats
  • Guiding globalization: how the UN helps make things work
  • Drug trafficking
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices. Appendix A: membership of principal United Nations organs in 2002
  • Appendix B: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Appendix C: UN member states
  • Appendix D: How to set up a model UN meeting.

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