The United Nations System: The Policies of Member StatesChadwick F. Alger, Gene M. Lyons, John E. Trent United Nations University Press, 1995 - 510 pages The essays in this volume provide a comparative study of national policies towards the United Nations. Eight cases have been selected: Algeria, Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each case study details a government's historical position on the United Nations, its past, present, and possible future expectations of the organization, and UN-related issues of special interest and the circumstances behind them. |
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