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Samuel S. Kim is senior research scholar at the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
United Nations and a Just World Order
by Falk, Richard A.; Kim, Samuel S.; Mendlovitz, Saul H.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-08-05
Publisher(s): Westview Pr
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Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Credits | p. xiii |
| General Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Role of Social Movements | p. 13 |
| Dilemmas of Antisystemic Movements | p. 16 |
| Party and State in Our Times: the Rise of Non-Party Political Formations | p. 29 |
| The Peace Movement: a Comparative and Analytical Survey | p. 46 |
| Changes and Continuities | p. 67 |
| A Normative and Structural Overview | p. 83 |
| The United Nations in Historical Perspective: What Have We Learned about Peacebuilding? | p. 87 |
| The United Nations, Lawmaking, and World Order | p. 109 |
| Developments in Decision Making in the United Nations | p. 125 |
| Diverse Perspectives | p. 137 |
| The Management of Power in the Changing United Nations | p. 143 |
| The Functional Approach to World Organization | p. 153 |
| World Peace through World Law: Two Alternate Plans | p. 163 |
| On the Prospects of Global Governance | p. 166 |
| No Development without Peace, No Peace without Development | p. 178 |
| A Statement Made by Premier Zhao Ziyang at the Un General Assembly for the Commemoration of the 40Th Anniversary of the Founding of the United Nations | p. 184 |
| Realities and Guarantees for a Secure World | p. 188 |
| Prospects for a New Era of World Peace | p. 198 |
| The United Nations and World Order Values | p. 207 |
| The United Nations and International Peace and Security | p. 213 |
| The Nuremberg Principles | p. 220 |
| The United Nations and the Resolution of International Conflicts | p. 222 |
| Relationship between Disarmament and Development: an Overview of United Nations Involvement | p. 240 |
| Toward an Alternative Security System | p. 252 |
| Building a Permanent and Globalist Peace Movement | p. 276 |
| The United Nations and the World Economy | p. 281 |
| The Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order | p. 288 |
| The New International Economic Order and the Basic Needs Approach | p. 292 |
| The World Bank: a New Role in the Debt Crisis? | p. 307 |
| Towards a Development Strategy and Action Programme for the South | p. 319 |
| Role of People in the Future Global Order | p. 327 |
| The United Nations and Social Justice | p. 345 |
| The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | p. 351 |
| Global Human Rights and World Order | p. 356 |
| The United Nations and Human Rights, 1945-1985 | p. 377 |
| The Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, Adopted by the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women | p. 392 |
| A Crime of Silence: the Armenian Genocide | p. 403 |
| The United Nations and Ecological Balance | p. 419 |
| The Stockholm Declaration | p. 427 |
| What Happened at Stockholm | p. 433 |
| On the Problem of "The Global Problematique": What Roles for International Organizations? | p. 447 |
| The World Charter for Nature | p. 467 |
| Towards Common Action: Proposals for Institutional and Legal Change | p. 471 |
| The United Nations and the Future | p. 497 |
| The United Nations at a Crossroads | p. 501 |
| Secretary-General PéRez de CuéLlar's 1988 Report on the Work of the Organization | p. 504 |
| The Future of the United Nations System: Some Questions on the Occasion of an Anniversary | p. 519 |
| A Successor Vision: the United Nations of Tomorrow | p. 535 |
| Towards Comprehensive Security through the Enhancement of the Role of the United Nations | p. 542 |
| The Establishment of a World Authority: Working Hypotheses | p. 546 |
| Openings for Peace and Justice in World of Danger and Struggle | p. 550 |
| Struggles for a Just World Peace: a Transition Strategy | p. 565 |
| Bibliography | p. 573 |
| Acronyms | p. 585 |
| About the Book and Editors | p. 589 |
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