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As the United Nations system approaches its fiftieth anniversary, there is good reason to take a fresh view of its contribution to legal order in the contemporary world. That contribution has rarely been assessed in its full generality. A half century of law creation and application by the United Nations and its specialized agencies has produced a corpus juris of impressive breadth and diversity. Not surprisingly, the greater part of this law is known only to those specially concerned with a particular area or subject. Indeed, no one can be expected to be knowledgeable in all, or even most, of the fields covered. Still, along with the diversity, common elements can be found to enable us to characterize the total product as a distinctive, multilayered legal order. This essay is an overview of its essential and interesting features. It aims particularly at informing the many nonspecialists in and outside the international law community who have reason to be interested in the process and substance of the legal contribution of the UN system.

This chapter examines the US's complex relationship with the UN. The Bush Doctrine represented a threat to certain principles held by the UN -- non-aggression & respect for another nation's sovereignty -- & created a fraught relationship in which negative opinions of the US war in Iraq were expressed; however, the author also discusses the increased working relationship between the US & the UN since 9/11. For instance, the Iraq war has caused the Bush administration to rethink the value of the UN & multilateralism. D. Miller

Examines range, extent, and frequency of peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace-enforcing activities. Excerpted from the World Peace Encyclopedia.

Aus US-amerikanischer Sicht

The fully updated new edition of this popular text provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the main areas of activity of the United Nations today, its organization and evolution and assesses its likely role and prospects for reform in the twenty-first century.