Written by best-selling author Edward C. Luck, this new text is broad and engaging enough for undergraduates, sophisticated enough for graduates and lively enough for a wider audience interested in the key institutions of international public policy.

Looking at the antecedents of the UN Security Council, as well as the current issues and future challenges that it faces, this new book includes:

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• historical perspectives
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• the founding vision
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• procedures and practices
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• economic enforcement
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• peace operations and military enforcement
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• human security
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• proliferation and WMD
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• terrorism
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• reform, adaptation and change.

Written by bestselling author Dr. Edward Luck., this new text is broad and engaging enough for undergraduates, sophisticated enough for graduates and lively enough for a wider audience interested in the key institutions of international public policy.
Looking at the antecedents of the UN Security Council, as well as the current issues and future challenges that it faces, the key content of this book includes:
* Historical perspectives
* The founding vision
* Procedures and practices
* Economic enforcement
* Peace operations and military enforcement
* Human security
* Proliferation and WMD
* Terrorism
* Reform, adaptation and change.

At the turn of the century, the United States is on the verge of losing its vote in the General Assembly for non-payment of its arrears. There are eerie parallels between the domestic debate over the United Nations in 1999 and the struggles over the League of Nations in 1919. Why, many ask, are Americans the first to create international organizations and the first to abandon them? What is it about the American political culture that breeds both the most ardent supporters and the most vocal detractors of international organization? And why can't they find any common ground? In seeking to uncover the roots of American ambivalence toward international organization, this political history presents the first major analysis of U.S. attitudes toward both the United Nations and the League of Nations. It traces eight themes that have resurfaced again and again in congressional and public debates over the course of this century: exceptionalism, sovereignty, nativism and racism, unilateralism, security, commitments, reform, and burden-sharing. It assesses recent domestic political trends and calls for the development of two interactive political compacts--one domestic and one international--to place U.S.-UN relations on a new footing. A Century Foundation Book