U.N. Sources

Select a Topic to View General Works U.N. Bibliography U.N. Charter, Organization, and History -----U.N. Organization and Reorganization -----Rules and Practice -----History of the U.N. Collective Security and Peacekeeping -----General Works -----U.N. Enforcement Opportunities -----U.N. Peacekeeping Missions ----------General ----------Cases Human Rights ------General ------Children ------Women ------Refugees ------War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity ------U.N. Commission on Human Rights ------U.N. Commission on Truth Environment ------General Sources ------Rio Conference 1992 ------Ozone Layer ------Oceans ------Climate Change (1997-1998) ------Population ------Resource Depletion ------Water Resolutions ------General Assembly ------Security Council Relations with Particular States U.N. Database and Directories

1. General Works

• United Nations Official Website - http://www.un.org

• Armstrong, J. D. (James David), 1945- From Versailles to Maastricht : international organisation in the twentieth century / David Armstrong, Lorna Lloyd, and John Redmond. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.

• Baehr, P. R. (Peter R.) The United Nations in the 1990s / Peter R. Baehr and Leon Gordenker. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992 (1993 printing)

• Baratta, Joseph Preston. United Nations system / Joseph Preston Baratta, compiler. New Brunswick [N.J.] : Transaction Publishers, c1995.

• Benneth, A. LeRoy. International Organizations: Principles and Issues, 4^th Ed. Eaglewood Dliffs, NJ: Brentice-Hall, 1991.

• Boardman, Robert, 1945- Post-socialist world orders : Russia, China and the UN system / Robert Boardman.
  New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994.

• Claude, Inis L. Jr. Swords Into Plowshares / 4^th Ed.
  New York: Random House, 1971.

• Dell, Sidney Samuel. The United Nations and international business / Sidney Dell. Durham : United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Duke University Press, 1990.

• Hilderbrand, Robert C., 1947- Dumbarton Oaks : the origins of the United Nations and the search for postwar security / by Robert C. Hilderbrand. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1990.

• NGOs, the UN, and global governance / edited by Thomas G. Weiss, Leon Gordenker. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner, 1996.

• Riggs, Robert Edwon, 1927- The United Nations : international organization and world politics / Robert E. Riggs, Jack C. Plano. Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1994.

• Righter, Rosemary. Utopia lost : the United Nations and world order / Rosemary Righter. New York : Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995.

• Rochester, J. Martin. Waiting for the millennium : the United Nations and the future of world order / by J. Martin Rochester. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1993.

• Rosenau, James N. The United Nations in a turbulent world / James N. Rosenau. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992.

• The United Nations and a just world order / edited by Richard A. Falk, Samuel S. Kim, and Saul H. Mendlovitz. Boulder : Westview Press, 1991.

• The United Nations and nuclear non-proliferation / with an introduction by Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
  New York, NY : United Nations, Dept. of Public Information, c1995.

• Weiss, Thomas George. The United Nations and changing world politics / Thomas G. Weiss, David P. Forsythe, Roger A. Coate. Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.

• Yoder, Amos. The Evolution of the United Nations System Washington: Taylor and Francis, 1993.

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2. United Nations -- Bibliography.

• United Nations. Advisory Committee for the Co-ordination of Information Systems. Books in print of the United Nations system compiled by the Advisory Committee for the Co-ordination of Information Systems (ACCIS). New York : United Nations, 1992.

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3. United Nations – Charter, Organization and History.

    a. UN Organization and Reorganization

• Gordenker, Leon, 1923- The UN tangle : policy formation, reform, and reorganization / by Leon Gordenker. Cambridge, Mass. : World Peace Foundation, 1996.

• United States Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the United Nations. Defining purpose [microform] : the U.N. and the health of nations : final report of the United States Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the United Nations. [Washington, D.C.] : The Commission, [1993]

• Look in Gov. Docs in Library. Consult Reference Librarian about Congressional Hearings.

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    b. Rules and Practice

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    c. History of the U.N

• Hoopes, Townsend, 1922- FDR and the creation of the U.N. / Townsend Hoopes, and Douglas Brinkley. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c1997.

• Meisler, Stanley. United Nations : the first fifty years / Stanley Meisler. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1995.

• Richardot, Jean. Journeys for a better world : a personal adventure in war and peace : an inside story of the United Nations by one of its first senior officials
  / Jean Richardot. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1993.

 

 

4. Collective Security and Peacekeeping

    a. General Works

• Delusions of grandeur : the United Nations and global intervention / edited by Ted Galen Carpenter. Washington, D.C. Cato Institute, c1997

• Evered, Timothy C. United nations electoral assistance and the evolving right to democratic governance / by Timothy C. Evered. Livingston, NJ : The Center for U.N. Reform Education, c1996.

• Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century / edited by Olasa and Michael Otonnu. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996.

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   b. UN Enforcement Operations

• Scheffer, David. Post-Gulf War challenges to the UN collective security system [microform] : three views on the issue of humanitarian intervention / David J. Scheffer, Richard N. Gardner, and Gerald B. Helman. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Institute of Peace, [1992]

 

    c. UN Peacekeeping Missions

          1. General

• Reform of United Nations peacekeeping operations : a mandate for change : a staff report to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate. Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1993.

• Rikhye, Indar Jit, 1920- Strengthening UN peacekeeping microform : new challenges and proposals / Major-General Indar Jit Rikhye (Ret.).
  Washington, D.C. (1550 M St., NW, Washington 20005) : United States Institute of Peace, [1992]

• The United Nations and civil wars / edited by Thomas G. Weiss. Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner Publishers, 1995.

• UN Peacekeeping, American Policy, and the Uncivil Wars of the 1990s / edited by William J. Durch.
  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

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          2. Case Studies

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5. Human Rights

    a. General

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    b. Children

• Ennew, Judith, 1944- The next generation : lives of Third World children / Judith Ennew, Brian Milne.
  Philadelphia, PA (4527 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia 19143) : New Society Publishers, c1990.

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    c. Women

• United Nations. The United Nations and the advancement of women, 1945-1995. New York : Department of Public Information, United Nations, c1995.

 

    d. Refugees

• Warren, George. A study of selected refugee and migration issues : report of George Warren to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1992.

 

    e. War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

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    f. United Nations. Commission on Human Rights.

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    g. United Nations. Commission on the Truth.

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6. Environment

    a. General Sources

    b. Rio Conference 1992

• Negotiating international regimes : lessons learned from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) / edited by Bertram I. Spector, Gunnar Sjöstedt, and I. William Zartman. London ; Boston : Graham & Trotman/Martinus Nijhoff/Kluwer Academic, 1994.

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    c. Ozone Layer

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    d. Oceans

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    e. Climate Change (1997-1998)

• Shaping national responses to climate change : a post-Rio guide / edited by Henry Lee. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c1995.

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    f. Population

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    g. Resource Depletion

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    h. Water

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7. Resolutions (Please consult with Reference Librarian in Starr Library).

    a. General Assembly

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    b. Security Council

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8. Relations with Particular States

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9. UN Databases and Directories.

• Hajnal, Peter I., 1936- Directory of United Nations documentary and archival sources / compiled with annotations and an introduction by Peter I. Hajnal.
  [Hanover, N.H.] : Academic Council on the United Nations System ; [Millwood, NY] : Kraus International Publications ; [New York, N.Y.] : United Nations, 1991.

• United Nations. ACCIS guide to United Nations information sources on international trade and development finance / compiled by the Advisory Committee for the Co-ordination of Information Systems (ACCIS). New York : United Nations : Available from Publishing Division, Sales Section, United Nations, 1990.

• United Nations. ACCIS guide to United Nations information sources on health / the Advisory Committee for the Co-ordination of Information Systems (ACCIS). New York : United Nations, c1992.

   

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