CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors = ⅹ
Abbreviations = xiv
1. Introduction : The UN's Roles in International Society since 1945 / Adam Roberts(Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford) ; Benedict Kingsbury(Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law, Noth Carolina) = 1
2. The Historical Development of the UN's Role in International Security / Michael Howard(Levett Professor of Military and Naval History, Yale University, 1989-93) = 63
3. The UN and International Security after the Cold War / Brian Urquhart(Scholar-in-Residence in the International Affairs Program, Ford Foundation, New York) = 81
4. The UN and the National Interests of States / Anthony Parson(UK Permanent Representative to the UN, 1979-82) = 104
5. The Role of the Secretary-General / Javier P e rez de Cu e llar(Secretary-General, United Nations, 1982-91) = 125
6. The Good Offices Function of the UN Secretary-General / Thomas M. Franck(Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law, New York University) ; Georg Nolte(Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg) = 143
7. UN Peace-keeping and Election-Monitoring / Sally Morphet(Research and Analysis Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office) = 183
8. The UN and Human Rights : At the End of the Beginning / Tom J. Farer(Professor of Law, The American University, Washington DC) ; Felice Gaer(Executive Director for European Programs, United Nations Association of the USA) = 240
9. The UN and the Problem of Economic Development / Kenneth Dadzie(Secretary-General, UNCTAD) = 297
10. The UN and the Environment / Patricia Birnie(Director, IMO International Martime Law Institute, Malta, 1989-92) = 327
11. The UN and the Development of International Law / Nagendra Singh(President, International Court of Justice, 1985-8) = 384
12. The Historical Development of Efforts to Reform the UN / Maurice Bertrand(Joint Inspection Unit, United Nations, 1968-85) = 420
13. The Structure of the UN in the Post-Cold War Period / Peter Wilenski(Secratary of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) = 437
Appendices
A. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace with an introduction by Boutros Boutros-Ghali for this edition = 468
B. Charter of the United Nations = 499
C. Member States of the United Nations = 530
D. Secretaries-General of the United Nations = 537
E. List of UN Peace-keeping and Observer Forces = 538
F. Judgments and Opinions of the International Court of Justice = 543
G. Select Further Reading = 549
Index = 557
