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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A world in need of leadership	Brian Urquhart	103 p. ; 25 cm	OL11542761W
The U.S. veto and the polemics of the question of Palestine in the United Nations Security Council,…	James Ross-Nazzal	This book examines the US veto in the United Nations Security Council on the "Question of Palestine" from 1972 to 2007.	OL11952333W
Memoria y frontera	Pablo de Lora	Desde la promulgación de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos por la ONU en 1948, éstos se han convertido en una suerte de «religión civil», un elemento central de la retórica política y …	OL12015316W
Humanitarianism under fire	Ken Rutherford	The international humanitarian intervention in Somalia was one of the most challenging operations ever conducted by US and UN military forces. Until Somalia, the UN had never run a Chapter VII exerci…	OL12567922W
BUSINESS OF SOME HEAT: THE UNITED NATIONS FORCE IN CYPRUS BEFORE AND DURING THE 1974 TURKISH INVASI…	FRANCIS HENN	xxvi, 550 p., [16] p. of plates : 24 cm	OL13633584W
Im Namen der Anklage	Carla Del Ponte, Chuck Sudetic	Von der Wirtstochter aus einem kleinen Ort im Tessin hin zur international gefürchteten Anklägerin: Carla Del Ponte schildert überraschend offen ihren ungewöhnlichen Werdegang und ihren resoluten Kam…	OL13757051W
Five to rule them all	David L. Bosco	From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes …	OL13766634W
Ralph J. Bunche	Patricia McKissack	Biography of the African-American statesman and diplomat who was one of the founders of the United Nations and who received the Nobel Prize for his peacemaking efforts.	OL14860558W
The United Nations	Adam Woog	Discusses the founding of the United Nations, its peacekeeping, economic, social, and environmental roles, and possibilities for the future.	OL15073820W
Saddam's bombmaker	Khidhir Hamza,Khiḍr ʻAbd al-ʻAbbās Ḥamzah,Jeff Stein	The author who spent twenty years developing Iraq's atomic weapon, recounts his life in Saddam Hussein's inner circle and his daring flight to the West. The book delves into the darkest corners of a …	OL15456756W
Kofi Annan	Stanley Meisler	Biografie van de Ghanese diplomaat (geboren in 1938), van 1997 tot 2007 secretaris-generaal van de Verenigde Naties.	OL15837597W
No regrets	Caroline Seebohm	"Marietta Tree was both political activist and society doyenne, one of the last of her breed."--Jacket.	OL15844320W
Golden bones	Sichan Siv	Young Sichan Siv was targeted by the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide because he was a university graduate. His mother told him to run and "never give up hope!" Captured and put to work in a…	OL16055674W
Rwanda 1994 and the failure of the United Nations mission	Amadou Deme	U.N. officer Captain Amadou Deme's account of the start of the Rwandan civil war.	OL16144356W
The economics of UN peacekeeping	Nadège Sheehan	"Peacekeeping is a security concept that is very representative of the current interventionism, multilateralism, human rights, and humanitarian ideas. UN peacekeeping plays an important role in inter…	OL16149067W
Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations	Timothy L. Gall	Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, 13th Edition, presents easy-to-understand information on 194 countries and dependencies from around the world in 5 volumes. Its 4 country volumes are arranged b…	OL16343236W
We Are All Born Free	Amnesty International	The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed on 10th December 1948. It was compiled after World War Two to declare and protect the rights of all people from all countries. This beautiful coll…	OL16513051W
United Nations	Carol Greene	An introduction to the United Nations describing its purpose and organization and the work of its many specialized agencies.	OL1653370W
Threats of force	Francis Grimal	"Despite recent attempts by scholars to examine the absolute prohibition of threats of force under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, threats remain a largely un-chartered area in international law when…	OL16682005W
Here Come the Black Helicopters!	Dick Morris	Warning: Our national sovereignty and our freedom are in grave danger. Stealthily advancing, the globalists and socialists at the United Nations, and in the United States itself, are trying to dilute…	OL16796714W