At a time when the United Nations demonstrates new vitality, this book provides essential background of nearly 50 years of the world organization's experience. It sets out the fundamental features of the structure of the UN, and traces the political developments around such topics as maintaining international peace, protecting human rights and improving economic welfare. Peter Baehr is the author of "Policy Analysis and Policy Innovation", "The Role of National Delegation in the General Assembly" and "The Netherlands and the United Nations: Selected Issues" and Leon Gordenker is the author of "Refugees in International Politics", "International Aid and National Decisions", "The United Nations in International Politics" and "The UN Secretary-General and the Maintenance of Peace". He co-edited "The Challenging Role of the UN Secretary-General".

The United Nations in the 1990s

Politics & Social Sciences

Leon Gordenker

Peter R. Baehr

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Attempts to explain the United Nation's first 45 years. It sets out the fundamental features of the structure of the United Nations and traces the political developments around such topics as maintaining international peace, protecting human rights and improving economic welfare.

The United Nations, 1990s

Foreign & International Law

St.Martin's Press

Human rights has become a main feature of present-day international politics. This book is about the role of human rights in foreign policy. In the first part a number of problems and dilemmas which confront policy-makers in the field of human rights are discussed. The second part is about the place of human rights in the foreign policy of a number of selected states.

The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy

Human rights are internationally agreed values, standards, or rules regulating the conduct of states towards their own citizens as well as non-citizens. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) a great number of international treaties and declarations have seen the light. Their implementation is deficient, however. Many states, especially in Asia, pay lip- service to the universal validity of human rights, but see their supervision as chiefly a domestic affair. In some parts of the world there are regional supervision mechanisms to which citizens can turn when domestic remedies have been exhausted. Non-governmental organizations provide reliable information about violations of human rights. International criminal tribunals, on the former Yugoslavia and on Rwanda, and truth- and-reconciliation commissions are recently established institutions which aim to implement international humanitarian and human rights law. As a political scientist, the author emphasizes the political features of human rights without ignoring, however, their legal aspects.

Human Rights: Universality in Practice

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The United Nations in the 1990s

The United Nations, 1990s

The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy

Human Rights: Universality in Practice

The United Nations in the 1990s