Votes in the UN General Assembly
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'This book is of wider interest than its title suggests. [...] It is permeated throughout with a concern to address the role of the United States in the United Nations. This is the most important way in which it adds to the literature on the UN.'
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Table of contents
Appendixes. Preface. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Tables. Figures. Introduction. Part One: The Stage and the Actors. 1: The International Community's Most Representative Forum. A universal organization. The rules of the game. Regarding majorities and minorities. 2: A Half-Century of Debates. An ever-heavier agenda. Consistency and contradiction. The difficult questions. The fundamental issues. The Organization's functioning. Part Two: Voting Patterns. 3: The Resolutions and the Votes. An ocean of resolutions. The vetoes in the Security Council. Triple, double and single rejections.4: Coincidences and Discrepancies. The tools of analysis. General trends, 1946-1996. Some signposts. The five stages. The contours of a new agenda. Epilogue. Appendixes. Index.
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