The parliament of man : the past, present, and future of the United Nations /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
2007, ©2006.
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| Edition: | 1st Vintage books ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- A note on the title
- Preface
- pt. 1: Origins. The troubled advance to a new world order, 1815-1945
- pt. 2: The evolution of the many UNs since 1945. The conundrum of the Security Council
- Peacekeeping and warmaking
- Economic agendas, north and south
- The softer face of the UN' mission
- Advancing international human rights
- "We the peoples" : democracy, governments, and nongovernmental actors
- pt. 3: The present and the future. The promise and peril of the twenty-first century
- Afterword
- Appendix: Charter of the United Nations.