The United Nations
Subtitle: how it works and what it does
By: Evan Luard
Contributors: Heater, Derek Benjamin
Edition: 2nd ed. / revised by Derek Heater.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780312100230; 9780312100605
Subjects: United Nations
Description: "In the first edition of this book the late Evan Luard questioned whether or not the United Nations had failed and suggested ways in which the institution could be improved. Into this context he placed analyses of the operation of the Security Council, the General Assembly, economic and social bodies, the International Court of Justice and the International Law Commission, the Secretariat and the Budget." "In preparing this new edition Derek Heater has updated the core material and written a new concluding chapter showing how, since the mid-1980s, the United Nations has acquired a new lease of life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Security Council; title: The General Assembly; title: The Economic and Social Institutions; title: The Legal Institutions; title: The Secretariat; title: The Budgetary System; title: The Fundamental political problems; title: Conclusions.