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Bibliographies
This page links to selected bibliographies of some topics that GPF covers. The listings are by no means exhaustive, and are intended to give a general idea of the materials available on the topics.
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Security Council
This page lists books about the UN Security Council, including on Security Council reform, the veto system, and the Council’s role in the UN and in keeping international peace.Peacekeeping
This page lists books about the UN peacekeeping and other peace operations, including reform, financing and history of UN peacekeeping.Sanctions
This page lists books about UN sanctions, including case studies and general analysis of their impact on human rights and democracy.Global Taxes
This page lists books about global taxes and fees, including on currency transaction taxes (CTT) environmental taxes and more.Globalization
This page lists books about globalization, including definitions of the concept, economic globalization its effect on poor countries.Empire?
This page lists books about “empire” from all viewpoints, including debates about whether the US can be considered an empire and historical comparisons with previous empires.Nations and States
This page lists books about nations and states, citizenship, nationalism, and more.UN Finance
This page lists books about United Nations finance, including the lack of financing, the US role in funding/not funding the UN, history and reform proposals.UN Reform
This page lists books about UN reform, Security Council reform, Southern perspectives of reform, and more.
Books About the United Nations
Adam Bartos and Christopher Hitchens
International Territory: the United Nations 1945-1995
London: Verso, 1994Phyllis Bennis
Calling the Shots: how Washington dominates today's UN
Brooklyn: Olive Branch Press, 1996Maurice Bertrand
ONU
Paris: Decouverte, 1995Erskine Childers (ed.)
Challenges to the United Nations: building a safer world
London: Catholic Institute of International Relations, 1994Erskine Childers with Brian Urquhart
Renewing the United Nations System
New York: Ford Foundation, 1994Harlan Cleveland, Hazel Henderson & Inge Kaul
The United Nations: Policy and Financing Alternatives
Washington: Global Commission to Fund the UN, 1996David Cortright and George A. Lopez
Economic Sanctions: panacea or peacebuilding in a post-cold war world?
Boulder: Westview Press, 1995Mahbub ul Haq
Reflections on Human Development
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995Mahbub ul Haq, Richard Jolly, Paul Streeten and Khadija Haq
The UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions: new challenges for the twenty-first century
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995David Held
Democracy and the Global Order
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995Klaus Hüfner (ed.)
Agenda for change: New tasks for the United Nations
Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1995Craig Murphy
International Organization and Industrial Change: global governance since 1850
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade
United Nations Handbook
Revised and published annually; available from the Ministry and New Zealand Missions, Embassies and High Commissions worldwide.Gerard Piel
Only One World: our own to make and to keep
New York: W H Freeman, 1992Adam Roberts/Benedict Kingsbury (eds.)
United Nations, Divided World: The UN’s Roles in International Relations
Oxford: Oxford University Press, second revised and expanded edition, 1993Bruno Simma
The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995Helmut Volger (ed.)
A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations
With a Preface by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan
The Hague/London/New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002Ian Williams
The U.N. for Beginners
London: Writers and Readers, 1995Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.)
United Nations: Law, Policies and Practice. 2 Vols.
New, Revised English Edition.
Munich: C.H. Beck – Dordrecht/London/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995
