The United Nations: How it Works and What it Does

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'This book is exactly what the subtitle indicates. It is a highly knowledgeable, realistic - yet positive - review and assessment of the United Nations. Convenient for use in courses on international organization. The reviewer would particularly recommend it to individuals connected officially or otherwise professionally concerned with the United Nations'. American Journal of International Law In the first edition of this book the late Evan Luard questioned whether or not the UN had failed and suggested ways in which the institution could be improved. Into this context he placed analyses of the operation of the Security Council, the General Assembly, economic and social bodies, the World Court and the International Law Commission, the Secretariat and the budget. In preparing this new edition Derek Heater has up-dated the core material and written a new concluding chapter showing how, since the mid- 1980s, the UN has perhaps been acquiring a new lease of life. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: Has the UN Failed?....Pages 1-9 The Security Council: Keeping the Peace....Pages 10-37 The General Assembly: Discussion of World Issues....Pages 38-61 The Economic and Social Institutions: Securing a Fairer World....Pages 62-79 The Legal Institutions: Laying Down the International Law....Pages 80-101 The Secretariat: Running the Organisation....Pages 102-125 The Budgetary System: Finding the Money....Pages 126-152 The Fundamental Political Problems....Pages 153-172 Conclusions: A New Lease of Life?....Pages 173-189 Back Matter....Pages 190-203