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Intended for use as a basic text in international organization, world order and global/peace studies, this anthology encourages students to deepen their understanding of the UN as a global actor. It contains essays, articles and documents, and suggestions for further reading.

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• Preface(p. xi)
• Credits(p. xiii)
• General Introduction(p. 1)
• Section 1 The Role of Social Movements(p. 13)
• 1 Dilemmas of Antisystemic Movements(p. 16)
• 2 Party and State in Our Times: the Rise of Non-Party Political Formations(p. 29)
• 3 The Peace Movement: a Comparative and Analytical Survey(p. 46)
• Part 1 Changes and Continuities(p. 67)
• Section 2 A Normative and Structural Overview(p. 83)
• 4 The United Nations in Historical Perspective: What Have We Learned about Peacebuilding?(p. 87)
• 5 The United Nations, Lawmaking, and World Order(p. 109)
• 6 Developments in Decision Making in the United Nations(p. 125)
• Section 3 Diverse Perspectives(p. 137)
• 7 The Management of Power in the Changing United Nations(p. 143)
• 8 The Functional Approach to World Organization(p. 153)
• 9 World Peace through World Law: Two Alternate Plans(p. 163)
• 10 On the Prospects of Global Governance(p. 166)
• 11 No Development without Peace, No Peace without Development(p. 178)
• 12 A Statement Made by Premier Zhao Ziyang at the Un General Assembly for the Commemoration of the 40Th Anniversary of the Founding of the United Nations(p. 184)
• 13 Realities and Guarantees for a Secure World(p. 188)
• 14 Prospects for a New Era of World Peace(p. 198)
• Part 2 The United Nations and World Order Values(p. 207)
• Section 4 The United Nations and International Peace and Security(p. 213)
• 15 The Nuremberg Principles(p. 220)
• 16 The United Nations and the Resolution of International Conflicts(p. 222)
• 17 Relationship between Disarmament and Development: an Overview of United Nations Involvement(p. 240)
• 18 Toward an Alternative Security System(p. 252)
• 19 Building a Permanent and Globalist Peace Movement(p. 276)
• Section 5 The United Nations and the World Economy(p. 281)
• 20 The Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order(p. 288)
• 21 The New International Economic Order and the Basic Needs Approach(p. 292)
• 22 The World Bank: a New Role in the Debt Crisis?(p. 307)
• 23 Towards a Development Strategy and Action Programme for the South(p. 319)
• 24 Role of People in the Future Global Order(p. 327)
• Section 6 The United Nations and Social Justice(p. 345)
• 25 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights(p. 351)
• 26 Global Human Rights and World Order(p. 356)
• 27 The United Nations and Human Rights, 1945-1985(p. 377)
• 28 The Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, Adopted by the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women(p. 392)
• 29 A Crime of Silence: the Armenian Genocide(p. 403)
• Section 7 The United Nations and Ecological Balance(p. 419)
• 30 The Stockholm Declaration(p. 427)
• 31 What Happened at Stockholm(p. 433)
• 32 On the Problem of "The Global Problematique": What Roles for International Organizations?(p. 447)
• 33 The World Charter for Nature(p. 467)
• 34 Towards Common Action: Proposals for Institutional and Legal Change(p. 471)
• Part 3 The United Nations and the Future(p. 497)
• Section 8 The United Nations at a Crossroads(p. 501)
• 35 Secretary-General PéRez de CuéLlar's 1988 Report on the Work of the Organization(p. 504)
• 36 The Future of the United Nations System: Some Questions on the Occasion of an Anniversary(p. 519)
• 37 A Successor Vision: the United Nations of Tomorrow(p. 535)
• 38 Towards Comprehensive Security through the Enhancement of the Role of the United Nations(p. 542)
• 39 The Establishment of a World Authority: Working Hypotheses(p. 546)
• 40 Openings for Peace and Justice in World of Danger and Struggle(p. 550)
• 41 Struggles for a Just World Peace: a Transition Strategy(p. 565)
• Bibliography(p. 573)
• Acronyms(p. 585)
• About the Book and Editors(p. 589)

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CHOICE Review

Any huge book like this one (588 pages of fine print and 41 chapters) is bound to contain a mixture of interesting and tedious selections. The articles and documents were published from 1948 through 1989 (most in the 1980s). One of a series of "Studies on a Just World Order" under the general editorship of well-known peace advocates Falk and Mendlovitz, the volume would be useful for courses on world order as a good representation of the "peace" perspective (i.e., supportive of values associated with peace, nonviolence, social justice, nuclear abolition, economic redistribution, and ecological balance) or conversely, against "the current war system," the nation-state system, and generally opposed to the foreign policies of the two superpowers. But even as a text, this book needs substantial pruning and it is much too formidable and ponderous for the general reader. Upper-division undergraduates.-J. L. Nogee, University of Houston

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Richard Falk is Professor of Law at Princeton University.

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