TY - BOOK AU - Gareis,Sven Bernhard AU - Varwick, Johannes TI - The united nations: An introduction SN - 9781403935403 U1 - 352.113 PY - 2005/// CY - UK PB - Palgrave macmillan KW - United Nations N1 - 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 ER -