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The United Nations in the World Political Economy

Essays in Honour of Leon Gordenker

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. David P. Forsythe

    1. University of Nebraska, USA

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • David P. Forsythe
      Pages 1-10

  4. Issues of Political Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. UNCTAD as an Agent of Change

      • Stanley J. Michalak
      Pages 69-85

    3. The UN Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations

      • Thomas G. Weiss
      Pages 86-97

    4. The UN Economic Commission for Africa: Continental Development and Self-reliance

      • Timothy M. Shaw
      Pages 98-111

    5. High Technology and the UN

      • Jeffrey A. Hart
      Pages 112-127

  5. Social Policy and Political Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. The Political Economy of UN Refugee Programmes

      • David P. Forsythe
      Pages 131-143

    3. The Struggle to Control UNESCO

      • Lawrence S. Finkelstein
      Pages 144-164

    4. The UN and Decolonisation in Namibia

      • Richard Dale
      Pages 165-178

    5. Tripartitism and the ILO

      • Gregory Kruglak
      Pages 179-196

  6. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Perspective on the United Nations

      • Richard Falk
      Pages 199-211

    3. The United Nations in Crisis

      • Harold K. Jacobson
      Pages 212-227

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 229-239
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The United Nations is in a time of major crisis in the history of the organization. The product of many leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, this work examines whether out of the crisis of mulitlateralism engulfing the organization in the late 1980s there could arise a renewed and strengthened global body. Pursuing the theme of the dynamics of international cooperation, thirteen authors look at three principal issue-areas: the principal UN organs, leading economic subjects, and leading social subjects. Two distinguished American scholars provide concluding commentaries. Running throughout the book is an emphasis on the economic dimension to international politics.

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  • University of Nebraska, USA

    David P. Forsythe

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DAVID P. FORSYTHE is Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska. He holds a PhD from Princeton University and won the Dauer Prize with his book Human Rights and US Foreign Policy. He is also the author of Human Rights and World Politics.

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