دانلود کتاب The United Nations in International History

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Series Editor’s Preface
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction: An Invitation
Chapter 2 The National and International Origins of the United Nations
A review of the literature and a case study on nutritional science and organization
The early development of internationalism and international organizations
The Treaty of Versailles creates the League of Nations system
The operation of the League of Nations system
Conclusion: The wartime transition from the League to the United Nations
Chapter 3 The Cold War Borderland
The stakeholders
Test-driving the new United Nations
A changing of the guard: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, Hammarskjöld, and decolonization
The Third World’s agenda for the United Nations, 1963–80
Changing dynamics in the United Nations, 1980–2000
The pivot to security after 9/11
Chapter 4 Preventing War and Promoting Peace through Social and Economic Programs
Wartime relief efforts
Oversight of the U.N. specialized agencies
ECOSOC functional commissions
ECOSOC’s regional economic commissions
A case study of ECOSOC coordination and management: Population
Chapter 5 The Development Enterprise
Introduction to development
The eras and philosophies of development
The 1980s and 1990s: The debt crises, the Washington Consensus, and the backlash
Conclusion: The Millennium Development Goals, 2000–15
Chapter 6 Making and Keeping the Peace: U.N. Peacekeeping and Refugee Assistance Operations
Dealing with Europe’s displaced persons (DPs): From UNRRA and theIRO to the UNHCR, 1943–55
Peacekeeping’s first major test: The United Nations and theKorean War, 1950–53
The High Commissioner develops his office’s autonomy in the 1950s
Peacekeeping in the shadow of decolonization: The United Nationsand the Republic of the Congo, 1960–64
New refugee challenges in the developing world, 1960s–1970s
New refugee challenges in the 1970s and 1980s
The end of the Cold War and the rise and decline of “peace-building”activities
Post–Cold War realities for the world’s refugees: Repatriationand another asylum crisis
Chapter 7 The Middle East and the United Nations
The United Nations’ failed Palestinian partition plan and its aftermath
The U.N. role during the Suez Crisis
U.N. peacekeeping efforts, 1956–67
The U.N. role in the June 1967 war (Six-Day War) and its aftermath
The PLO bursts onto the international stage
The Yom Kippur War of 1973
U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, 1978–2000
The Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People, December 1978
The Iran-Iraq War, 1980–88
The intifada, 1987–92
The First Persian Gulf War
The prospect of Palestinian statehood: The Madrid peace process (1991) and the Oslo Agreement (1993)
The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon since 2000
Conclusion
Chapter 8 Defining Human Rights, International Justice, and Genocide
Historiography
Defining human rights in the new United Nations
Efforts to end human rights abuses
Conclusion
Chapter 9 Conclusion: Join the Conversation!
Guide to Further Research
Notes
Index