| Bib ID |
2598902 |
| Format |
Book, Online - Google Books |
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| Description |
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001
p. cm.
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| ISBN |
0313313865 (alk. paper) 0313313865 :
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| Summary |
"Perfect for promoting student debate and critical thinking, and ideal for use by Model UN clubs, this ready-reference guide provides information and critical examinations of the 50 most important issues debated in United Nations history. Each entry consists of four narrative sections: the significance of the issue; the historical, social and economic background of the issue; the history of the UN debate and intervention on the issue and the positions of various nations; and the outcome of each debate."--BOOK JACKET.
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| Full contents |
- Disarmament (1946)
- Status and condition of children (1946)
- Southwest Africa (Namibia) dispute (1946)
- Refugees and stateless persons (1946)
- World monetary system (1947)
- Arab-Israeli dispute (1947)
- India-Pakistan dispute (1948)
- Health (1948)
- Genocide (1948)
- Human rights (1948)
- Disarmament (1946)
- Status and condition of children (1946)
- Southwest Africa (Namibia) dispute (1946)
- Refugees and stateless persons (1946)
- World monetary system (1947)
- Arab-Israeli dispute (1947)
- India-Pakistan dispute (1948)
- Health (1948)
- Genocide (1948)
- Human rights (1948)
- Membership and representation questions (1950)
- Korean War (1950)
- Defining aggression (1950)
- Apartheid in South Africa (1952)
- Population (1954)
- Hungarian question (1956)
- Congo crisis (1960)
- Decolonization (1960)
- Narcotics control (1961)
- UN financing crisis (1961)
- Rhodesian question (1962)
- Vietnam question (1963)
- Cyprus question (1963)
- Trade and development (1964)
- Third World development programming (1964)
- Nonproliferation of nuclear weapons (1965)
- Global environment (1972)
- Terrorism (1972)
- Law of the sea (1973)
- New International Economic Order (1974)
- Codes of conduct for transnational corporations (1974)
- Food issues (1974)
- Status of women (1975)
- Zionism as racism (1975)
- East Timor question (1975)
- Human settlements (1976)
- Central American wars (1978)
- Cambodia situation (1979)
- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979)
- New International Information Order (1980)
- Iran-Iraq war (1980)
- Angola situation (1981)
- UN reforms (1985)
- Persian Gulf War (1990)
- Balkan civil wars (1991)
- Somali civil war (1991)
- Mozambique situation (1992)
- Haiti situation (1993)
- Rwandan civil war (1993)
- Kosovo situation (1998).
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| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Subjects |
United Nations - Encyclopedias. | United Nations. - Encyclopedias. | Nations Unies - Encyclopedies.
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