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050	0	0	_aJZ4986 _b.A44 2005
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100	1		_aAlger, Chadwick F., _d1924- _9426825
245	1	4	_aThe United Nations system : _ba reference handbook / _cChadwick F. Alger.
263			_a0511
264		1	_aSanta Barbara, Calif. : _bABC-CLIO, _c2005.
300			_axvi, 375 p.
490	1		_aContemporary world issues
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tBackground and history -- _g2. _tProblems, controversies, and solutions -- _g3. _tThe ambivalent participation of the United States in the UN system -- _g4. _tChronology of the emergence and development of the UN system -- _g5. _tFacts and data -- _g6. _tAlternative futures for the UN system -- _g7. _tDirectory of organizations, associations, and agencies -- _g8. _tBiographical sketches of present heads of UN system organizations -- _g9. _tSelected print and nonprint resources.
520			_a"Rising from the ashes of World War II, the UN's birth was announced on October 24, 1945. Its military arm began in 1948 with the deployment of just 36 soldiers, tasked with supervising a fragile cease-fire in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since then it has undertaken more than 50 peacekeeping missions and concluded 500 multilateral conventions on human rights, arms control, environment, terrorism, and many other subjects.The United Nations System examines the continuing controversy that surrounds this organization. Whereas conservatives accuse the UN of wavering in the face of gross violations of its own resolutions by Saddam Hussein, many liberals have lambasted it for failing to take decisive action against genocide in the Balkans and in Rwanda. Highly readable and packed with useful facts and illustrations, this book is essential reading for those who wish to make up their own minds."--Publisher description.
610	2	0	_aUnited Nations _xHistory.
830		0	_aContemporary world issues. _9236223
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