The united nations: An introduction/
Sven Bernhard Gareis, Johannes Varwick
- UK: Palgrave macmillan, 2005.
- xiv, 284; 24 cm
United Nations system -- Institution-building, regime impact and globalization, the role and function of the UN -- Core of the United Nations, collective security -- Changing practice of peacekeeping -- United Nations and human rights, normative development, codification and definition -- Human rights protection, institutional framework and code of practice -- Economic, developmental and environmental questions in the United Nations, problem areas and institutional design -- Reforms for the twenty-first century -- Conclusions: Multilateralism and global governance, opportunities and limitations of a political concept; Outlook, the United Nations in the twenty-first century.