Author: Helmut Volger
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-12-07
Total Pages: 980
ISBN-13: 904744454X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the second updated English edition of the German "Lexikon der Vereinten Nationen". The book provides in addition to concise and comprehensive information on the UN system, insight into recent UN developments and reform efforts in the face of global opportunities and challenges, such as the Millennium Summit 2000 and World Summit 2005, and the establishment of important new UN organs, the Human Rights Council and the Peacebuilding Commission, in 2006. The contributing authors are academic scholars of international law, economics and political sciences; active and former diplomats and UN officials; journalists and members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and offer a variety of interesting perspectives.
Author: Edmund Jan Osmańczyk
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 776
ISBN-13: 9780415939232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This thoroughly revised and updated edition is the most comprehensive and detailed reference ever published on United Nations. The book demystifies the complex workings of the world's most important and influential international body.
Author: Edmund Jan Osmańczyk
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13: 9780415939225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This thoroughly revised and updated edition is the most comprehensive and detailed reference ever published on United Nations. The book demystifies the complex workings of the world's most important and influential international body.
Author: John Allphin Moore
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 717
ISBN-13: 1438129262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Praise for the previous edition:" ... a first-rate job ... Recommended for all libraries."
Author: Helmut Volger
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-28
Total Pages: 826
ISBN-13: 9004481206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This English edition of the German "Lexikon der Vereinten Nationen" provides concise and comprehensive information not only about the structure of the UN system, its goals and functions, but about recent developments and reform efforts in the face of global opportunities and challenges. The contributing authors are academic scholars of international law, economics and political sciences; active and former diplomats and UN officials; journalists and members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and offer a variety of interesting perspectives. The entries are provided with Internet addresses for further information and are supplemented in the annex with a trilingual list (English-French-German) of the most important institutions and items of the official terminology and a list of information facilities concerning the UN. Readership: scholars and students of international law, international economics and political sciences, teachers, journalists, diplomats and politicians in the parliaments of the UN member states. "This new encyclopedia on the United Nations is a welcome addition to the works of academic research and political analysis covering the organization, its complex goals in the post-cold war era, and its ever broader role in the new millennium. While taking stock of more than half a century's achievements and setbacks, the encyclopedia also reflects the many ways in which the United Nations touches the lives of people everywhere." from the Preface by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Author: Edmund Jan Osmańczyk
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 830
ISBN-13: 9780415939218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This thoroughly revised and updated edition is the most comprehensive and detailed reference ever published on United Nations. The book demystifies the complex workings of the world's most important and influential international body.
Author: Edmund Jan Osmańczyk
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 9780415939249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This thoroughly revised and updated edition is the most comprehensive and detailed reference ever published on United Nations. The book demystifies the complex workings of the world's most important and influential international body.
Author: Edmund Jan Osmańczyk
Publisher: Philadelphia : Taylor and Francis
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 1090
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes "World population statistics, 1985-2025."
Author: Jarrod Wiener
Publisher: EOLSS Publications
Published: 2009-10-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1848260636
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →International Relations is a component of Encyclopedia of Institutional and Infrastructural Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme considers the following topics on The Development of International Relations, International Political Economy and International Relations and Contemporary World Issues. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.