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An insider's guide to the UN / Linda Fasulo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]Copyright date: �2021Edition: Fourth editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0300258399
  • 9780300258394
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: An Insider's Guide to the Un.DDC classification:
  • 341.23 23
LOC classification:
  • JZ4984.6 .F37 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 What Is the UN -- 2 Founding the UN -- 3 The Secretary-General and the Secretariat -- 4 The American Ambassador -- 5 The Security Council -- 6 The General Assembly -- 7 Rubbing Elbows and Egos in the UN Village -- 8 Peace Operations -- 9 International Terrorism and WMDs -- 10 Human Rights and R2P -- 11 ECOSOC and the Trusteeship Council -- 12 The UN to the Rescue -- 13 The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- 14 Global Connections -- 15 Climate Change -- 16 Keeping Tabs on How Nations Vote -- 17 Three Pillars of Reform -- 18 Paying for It All -- Appendixes A United Nations Charter -- Appendixes B Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Appendixes C UN Member States -- List of Selected Abbreviations -- Sources -- Index
Summary: Prominent NPR journalist Linda Fasulo's guide to the United Nations has established a reputation as the most lively, authoritative, and insightful book on its subject. The fourth edition comes at a time when nuclear proliferation has moved to the top of the Security Council's agenda, followed closely by the Syrian crisis, the effects of climate change, and international terrorism. Thoroughly revised and updated, with many new profiles and interviews with the organization's current diplomats, this edition remains an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to understand the role and structure of the UN.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prominent NPR journalist Linda Fasulo's guide to the United Nations has established a reputation as the most lively, authoritative, and insightful book on its subject. The fourth edition comes at a time when nuclear proliferation has moved to the top of the Security Council's agenda, followed closely by the Syrian crisis, the effects of climate change, and international terrorism. Thoroughly revised and updated, with many new profiles and interviews with the organization's current diplomats, this edition remains an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to understand the role and structure of the UN.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 28, 2021).

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 What Is the UN -- 2 Founding the UN -- 3 The Secretary-General and the Secretariat -- 4 The American Ambassador -- 5 The Security Council -- 6 The General Assembly -- 7 Rubbing Elbows and Egos in the UN Village -- 8 Peace Operations -- 9 International Terrorism and WMDs -- 10 Human Rights and R2P -- 11 ECOSOC and the Trusteeship Council -- 12 The UN to the Rescue -- 13 The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- 14 Global Connections -- 15 Climate Change -- 16 Keeping Tabs on How Nations Vote -- 17 Three Pillars of Reform -- 18 Paying for It All -- Appendixes A United Nations Charter -- Appendixes B Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Appendixes C UN Member States -- List of Selected Abbreviations -- Sources -- Index

In English.

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