This book, by the former director of research at UNITAR, the U.N.'s "think tank," examines the record of the United Nations in the light of American national interest. Franck offers a balance sheet which confirms that the U.N. often operates in a way that undermines respect for …
Argues that American expectations for the U.N. have been too high, analyzes U.N. actions in terms of U.S. interests, and suggests ways America can improve its international relations.
An introduction to the United Nations that explores the role the institution will play in the major issues that are shaping the twenty-first century and its political arena, and examines the challenges and dilemmas the UN is facing.
What are the internal and external factors which have caused so many African states to 'fail' and 'collapse'? How have developments in the broader international system affected conflicts in Africa? What determines 'success' and 'failure' in African peacekeeping? This comprehensi…
What are the internal and external factors which have caused so many African states to 'fail' and 'collapse'? How have developments in the broader international system affected conflicts in Africa? What determines 'success' and 'failure' in African peacekeeping? This comprehensi…
Papers presented at a workshop held at Colombo in 2003.
Hilderbrand explains why, with the Second World War moving toward an Allied victory in the summer of 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China began to give greater priority to protecting their own sovereignty than to preventing another global conflict.…
In recent years the United Nations has become more active in - and more generally respected for - its peacekeeping efforts than at any other period in its fifty-year history. During the same period, the United States has been engaged in a debate about the place of the U.N. in th…
This title tells of how African Americans, led by the NAACP, sought to capitalize on world revulsion at the white supremacist excesses of Nazi Germany to fight for human rights, but were hampered by the Cold War, which enabled powerful Southerners to misrepresent their cause as …