The Oxford handbook on the United Nations/

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Weiss, Thomas G, Ed, Daws, Sam, Ed
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
United Nations.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=j1qe-F0RU_MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Oxford+handbook+on+the+United+Nations&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8wJaB18fMAhWGjZQKHTCkChcQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Oxford%20handbook%20on%20the%20United%20Nations&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • pt.1. Introduction
  • World politics: continuity and change since 1945.
  • pt.2. Theoretical frameworks
  • Political approaches
  • Legal perspectives
  • Evolution in knowledge.
  • pt.3. Principal organs
  • General Assembly
  • Security Council
  • Economic and Social Council
  • Trusteeship Council
  • Secretariat: independence and reform
  • Secretary-General
  • International Court of Justice.
  • pt.4. Relationships with other actors
  • Regional groups and alliances
  • Bretton Woods institutions
  • Civil society
  • Private sector
  • Media.
  • pt.5. International peace and security
  • Disarmament
  • Peaceful settlement of disputes and conflict prevention
  • Peacekeeping operations
  • Sanctions
  • Peace enforcement
  • Humanitarian intervention
  • Post-conflict peacebuilding
  • terrorism.
  • pt.6. Human rights
  • Norms and machinery
  • International criminal court and ad hoc tribunals
  • Humanitarian action and coordination
  • Women and gender
  • Children
  • Minorities and indigenous peoples
  • Human security.
  • pt.7. Development
  • Coordinating economic and social affairs
  • Health and infectious disease
  • Natural resource management and sustainable development
  • Organized crime
  • Democracy and good governance
  • Human development.
  • pt.8. Prospects for reform
  • Principal organs
  • Financing
  • Widening participation.

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