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- 2005044785 abstract "Scholar Kennedy gives a thorough history of the United Nations that explains the institution's roots and functions while also casting an eye on the UN's effectiveness as a body and on its prospects for success in meeting coming challenges. He makes sense of the commissions and committees, and how the six main operating bodies operate and interact. Citing examples from history, he shows how the five permanent members of the Security Council on numerous occasions overcame political antagonisms to spearhead military supervision of aid in humanitarian crises, and how lack of cooperation among the great powers has hamstrung such initiatives as the control of greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbated the deleterious effects of globalization on developing nations' economies. As a body, the UN emerges here for what it is: fallible, human-based, oftentimes dependent on the whims of powerful nations or the foibles of individual senior administrators, but utterly indispensable.--From publisher description.".
- 2005044785 contributor B10155292.
- 2005044785 created "c2006.".
- 2005044785 date "2006".
- 2005044785 date "c2006.".
- 2005044785 dateCopyrighted "c2006.".
- 2005044785 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-311) and index.".
- 2005044785 description "Scholar Kennedy gives a thorough history of the United Nations that explains the institution's roots and functions while also casting an eye on the UN's effectiveness as a body and on its prospects for success in meeting coming challenges. He makes sense of the commissions and committees, and how the six main operating bodies operate and interact. Citing examples from history, he shows how the five permanent members of the Security Council on numerous occasions overcame political antagonisms to spearhead military supervision of aid in humanitarian crises, and how lack of cooperation among the great powers has hamstrung such initiatives as the control of greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbated the deleterious effects of globalization on developing nations' economies. As a body, the UN emerges here for what it is: fallible, human-based, oftentimes dependent on the whims of powerful nations or the foibles of individual senior administrators, but utterly indispensable.--From publisher description.".
- 2005044785 extent "xvii, 361 p. :".
- 2005044785 identifier "0375501657".
- 2005044785 identifier "9780375501654".
- 2005044785 identifier 2005044785-b.html.
- 2005044785 identifier 2005044785-d.html.
- 2005044785 identifier 2005044785-s.html.
- 2005044785 issued "2006".
- 2005044785 issued "c2006.".
- 2005044785 language "eng".
- 2005044785 publisher "New York : Random House,".
- 2005044785 subject "341.23 22".
- 2005044785 subject "International relations.".
- 2005044785 subject "JZ4984.5 .K46 2006".
- 2005044785 subject "United Nations History.".
- 2005044785 title "The parliament of man : the past, present, and future of the United Nations / Paul Kennedy.".
- 2005044785 type "text".