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The United Nations' role in promoting international peace and combating international terrorism are examined. After providing brief overviews of the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council, it is contended that certain people's criticism of the United Nations should be redirected to individual member-states, not the organization itself. Overviews of the United Nations' drafting of multiple conventions designed to confront international terrorism and of the Security Council's role in preserving global peace are also offered. Several facets of the United Nations that make it the premier mechanism for encouraging international peace and security are then highlighted, eg, developing better methods of deploying peacekeeping and humanitarian forces throughout the world. The nature of relations between the United Nations and Russia is subsequently addressed, specific attention is dedicated to illuminating Russia's contributions to the United Nations' sundry developmental, environmental, humanitarian endeavors.

"Most governments and global political organizations have been dominated by male leaders and structures that institutionalize male privilege. As Women and Gender in International History reveals, however, women have participated in and influenced the traditional concerns of international history even as they have expanded those concerns in new directions. Karen Garner provides a timely synthesis of key scholarship and establishes the influential roles that women and gender power relations have wielded in determining the course of international history. From the early-20th century onward, women have participated in state-to-state relations and decisions about when to pursue diplomacy or when to go to war to settle international conflicts. Particular women, as well as masculine and feminine gender role constructs, have also influenced the establishment and evolution of intergovernmental organizations and their political, social and economic policy making regimes and agencies. Additionally, feminists have critiqued male-dominated diplomatic establishment and intergovernmental organizations and have proposed alternative theories and practices. This text integrates women, and gender and feminist analyses, into the study of international history in order to produce a broader understanding of processes of international change during the 20th and 21st centuries"--