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Reforming the United Nations: A Chronology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1: Short Introduction to the Structure of the UN -- 2: Summary of Main Reform Initiatives, 1946 to 2015 -- 1 Trygve Lie (Norway), 1946-1953: Building the Foundation -- Organizational Structure, Headquarters and Decentralization -- New Entities and Subsidiary Bodies -- First Experience in Technical Assistance and Peacekeeping -- 2 Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden), 1953-1961: Cold War -- Peacekeeping Becomes Established -- Management Reform with Political Overtones -- 3 U Thant (Burma), 1961-1971: The Third World -- Peacekeeping Financing -- New Planning and Budgeting System -- Increase in Membership -- Focus on Development -- 4 Kurt Waldheim (Austria), 1972-1981: The North-South Conflict -- A New UN Structure for Global Economic Co-operation -- 5 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Peru), 1982-1991: Return to the UN -- Administrative and Financial Functioning -- Rediscovery of the UN -- 6 Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt), 1992-1996: The New Unity -- Major Structural Changes -- An Agenda for Peace -- Agenda for Development -- 50th Anniversary of the UN -- 7 Kofi Annan (Ghana), 1997-2006: Focus on Integrity and Efficiency -- The Quiet Revolution -- Millennium Summit -- Security Council Reform -- In Larger Freedom: Integrity and Efficiency -- 8 Ban Ki-moon (South Korea), 2007-2016: The Limits of the UN -- Secretariat: Structure, Human Resources and Change Plan -- Peacekeeping: Structure, Policy and Conduct -- System-wide Coherence and "Delivering as One" -- Capital Master Plan -- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- 9 Concluding Observations -- 3: Chronology of Main Change Events -- Appendix I: Reform Documents -- 1 Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The Security Council held its 1456th and 1457th meetings on November 1 and 4, 1968, at the request of the United Arab Republic and Israel to discuss the situation in the Middle East. Representatives of Israel and the United Arab Republic were invited to take part in the discussions without the right to vote.

The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government is an essential reference series which compiles the most significant journal articles in comparative politics over the past 30 years. It makes readily accessible to teachers, researchers and students, an extensive range of essays which, together, provide an indispensable basis for understanding both the established conceptual terrain and the new ground being broken in the rapidly changing field of comparative political analysis. These two volumes include articles which examine the system, the structure, the function and the future of the United Nations.