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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... initiative was joined by the International Peace Re- search Association (IPRA), the International Studies Association (ISA), and the newly formed Academic Council on the United Na- tions System (ACUNS), and exploratory sessions were ...
... initiative was joined by the International Peace Re- search Association (IPRA), the International Studies Association (ISA), and the newly formed Academic Council on the United Na- tions System (ACUNS), and exploratory sessions were ...
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... initiatives . Imagine , too , how much easier their task would have been had they been able to approach the future with these achieve- ments already in place . This imagination will set the stage on which we will now consider each ...
... initiatives . Imagine , too , how much easier their task would have been had they been able to approach the future with these achieve- ments already in place . This imagination will set the stage on which we will now consider each ...
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... initiative came from the industrialized countries , and at first the environment was perceived to be their issue . Initially the third world even suspected that environmental initiatives from the industrialized countries were a covert ...
... initiative came from the industrialized countries , and at first the environment was perceived to be their issue . Initially the third world even suspected that environmental initiatives from the industrialized countries were a covert ...
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... initiatives for disinvestment in corporations doing business in South Africa, for nuclear-free cities, and for the freeing of political prison- ers in distant countries. The emergence of these local initiatives in support of global ...
... initiatives for disinvestment in corporations doing business in South Africa, for nuclear-free cities, and for the freeing of political prison- ers in distant countries. The emergence of these local initiatives in support of global ...
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... initiative on reform by Sadruddin Aga Khan and Maurice Strong , both of whom had served in high - ranking UN positions : Prince Sad- ruddin as UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Strong as director- general of the UN Environment ...
... initiative on reform by Sadruddin Aga Khan and Maurice Strong , both of whom had served in high - ranking UN positions : Prince Sad- ruddin as UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Strong as director- general of the UN Environment ...
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