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Voitovich presents a clear and lucid discussion of the manner and form in which international economic organizations (IEOs) participate in two main stages of the international legal process: law making and law implementation. The book is based on normative instruments and fragments of practice of about fifty IEOs. In order to ensure a proper and timely realization of their normative acts, IEOs exercise a number of law implementing functions which are subject to a thorough comparative examination. The author concludes that existing IEOs, not being ideal institutional models, possess a sufficient arsenal of law implementing instruments to make a considerable impact on the international legal regulations in the economic field. The book will be of interest to academics and economic political scientists

The Basic Geometry of Comparative Advantage and the Gains from Trade -- The Classical Model and the Specific Factors Model -- The Heckscher-Ohlin Model -- Technology Difference Models -- The Gains from Inter-Industry Trade, the Distribution of Income and Adjustment -- Empirical Testing of Theories of Inter-Industry Trade -- Factor Accumulation and Technological Progress in Inter-Industry Trade -- Intra-Industry Trade -- Empirical Work in Intra-Industry Trade -- The Partial Equilibrium Analysis of Trade Policy -- The General Equilibrium Analysis of Trade Policy -- Trade Policy and Distortions in Domestic Markets -- Trade Policy and Imperfect Competition -- Further Topics in Trade Theory and Policy -- The Political Economy of Protection -- The Theory of Customs Unions -- The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade -- Trade Policy and the Less-Developed Countries -- Import-Substitution versus Export-Promotion -- Empirical Studies in Trade Policy -- International Factor Movements -- Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise -- The Balance-of-Payments -- The Market for Foreign Exchange -- Foreign Trade and National Income -- The Capital Account -- The Determination of a Floating Exchange Rate -- Macroeconomic Policy with Floating Exchange Rates -- Macroeconomic Policy with Fixed and Pegged Exchange Rates -- Two Debates: Exchange Rate Systems and Policy Co-ordination -- The International Monetary System.

While news of United Nations activities in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and other trouble spots has been in the press almost daily in recent months, information about internal UN developments are more difficult to come by. Fortunately, we have recently obtained documents on some organizational changes that affect the way the UN carries on its business and consequently the paper work documenting its activities. These changes involve several UN bodies, including the General Assembly and the Security Council, as well as other UN units. The number of developments is such that one cannot easily cover all the information in one column, and it has been decided to concentrate here on Security Council documentation.