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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... strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to enhance multilateral co- operation at a time of fundamental change in the inter-state system. But any assessment of the United Nations requires a longer and wider frame of reference to ...
... strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to enhance multilateral co- operation at a time of fundamental change in the inter-state system. But any assessment of the United Nations requires a longer and wider frame of reference to ...
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... strengthen Diplomacy (1) by adding Peaceful Settle- ment (4) of disputes (through mediation, conciliation, and the ... strengthening of collective security. But by far the greatest dif- ference between the Covenant and the Charter is ...
... strengthen Diplomacy (1) by adding Peaceful Settle- ment (4) of disputes (through mediation, conciliation, and the ... strengthening of collective security. But by far the greatest dif- ference between the Covenant and the Charter is ...
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... Strengthening Peace and International Understanding and to Combating War Propaganda, Racialism and Apartheid 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 1981 Declaration on the Elimination of All ...
... Strengthening Peace and International Understanding and to Combating War Propaganda, Racialism and Apartheid 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 1981 Declaration on the Elimination of All ...
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... strengthening and revitalization of the present structure of multilateral institutions ... ' and went on to explain : 22 Various factors have contributed to the present difficulties of many multilat- eral organizations . We are still ...
... strengthening and revitalization of the present structure of multilateral institutions ... ' and went on to explain : 22 Various factors have contributed to the present difficulties of many multilat- eral organizations . We are still ...
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... strengthening to serve effectively in an international system in which governments in- creasingly organize their political and economic relations through a highly decentralized complex of multilateral arrangements . Over the years , the ...
... strengthening to serve effectively in an international system in which governments in- creasingly organize their political and economic relations through a highly decentralized complex of multilateral arrangements . Over the years , the ...
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