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Amrith, Sunil, and Glenda Sluga. “New Histories of the UN.” Journal of World History 19, no. 3 (2008): 251-74.
Appathurai, E. R. “Permanent Missions in New York.” In Diplomacy at the UN, 94-108. Edited by G. R. Berridge and A. Jennings. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985.
Bailey, Sydney D., and Sam Daws. The United Nations: A Concise Political Guide. 3rd ed.
Lanham, MD: Barnes & Noble Books, 1995.
Barros, James. The United Nations: Past, Present, and Future. New York: Free Press, 1972.
Berridge, G. R., and A. Jennings, eds. Diplomacy at the UN. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985.
[The three parts of the book focus on third-party diplomacy, multilateral diplomacy, and bilateral diplomacy in and through the United Nations.]
Bertrand, Maurice. The United Nations: Past, Present, and Future. Hague, Neth.: Kluwer Law
International, 1997.
Bourquin, Maurice. L’Etat Souverain et l’Organisation Internationale (The sovereign state and international organization). New York: Manhattan Publishing Company for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1959.
Burgess, Stephen F. The United Nations under Boutros Broutros-Ghali, 1992-1997. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Castenada, Jorge. Legal Effects of United Nations Resolutions. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
Farer, Tom J. “The United Nations and Human Rights: More Than a Whimper.” Human Rights Quarterly 9 (1987): 550-86.
Firestone, Bernard J. The United Nations under U Thant, 1961-1971. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Gaglione, Anthony. The United Nations under Trygve Lie, 1945-1953. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow
Press, 2001.
Gaiduk, Ilya V. Divided Together: The United States and the Soviet Union in the United Nations, 1945-1965. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2012.
Group of Experts on the Structure of the United Nations System. A New United Nations Structure for Global Economic Co-operation, UN document E/AC.82.9, 28 May 1975.
Heller, Peter B. The United Nations under Dag Hammarskjöld, 1953-1961. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Hilderbrand, Robert C. Dumbarton Oaks:The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Ikenberry, G. John, and Charles A. Kupchan. “Socialization and Hegemonic Power.” International Organization 44, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 283-315.
Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations. Agenda for Change: New Tasks for the United Nations. New York: Ford Foundation, 1995.
Jensen, Steven L. B. The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Johnson, Edward. “Early Indications of Freeze: Greece, Spain and the United Nations, 1946-47.” Cold War History 6, no. 1 (February 2006): 43-61.
Jolly, Richard, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss. UN Ideas that Changed the World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Jones, Goronwy John. The United Nations and the Domestic Jurisdiction of States. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press, 1979.
Kaufman, Scott, and Alissa Warters. The United Nations: Past, Present, and Future. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009.
Kennedy, Paul. The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.
Lankevich, George J. The United Nations under Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 1982-1991. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Luard, Evan. A History of the United Nations, vol. 1: The Years of Western Domination, 1945-1955. New York: St. Martin’s, 1982.
Meisler, Stanley. United Nations: The First Fifty Years. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.
Meltzer, Ronald I. “Restructuring the United Nations System: Institutional Reform Efforts in the Context of North-South Relations.” International Organization 32, no. 4 (Autumn 1978): 993-1018.
Mires, Charlene. Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Ryan, James Daniel. The United Nations under Kurt Waldheim, 1972-1981. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Schlesinger, Stephen C. Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
Sfikas, Thanasis D. “Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union in the United Nations Commission of Investigation in Greece, January-May 1947.” Contemporary European History 2, no. 3 (November 1993): 243-63.
Smith, Courtney B. Politics and Process at the United Nations: The Global Dance. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. [Using the analogy of dance, the author–a scholar of international relations–examines the members of the dance troupe in part 1 (member states, blocs, the secretariat, and NGOs), the dance movements (policies and procedures) in part 2, and the “implications of the dance” in part 3, specifically as they relate to state compliance.]
South Centre. For a Strong and Democratic United Nations. Geneva: South Centre, 1996. United Nations. Permanent Missions to the United Nations. New York: United Nations, 2011.
_________. United Nations Millennium Declaration. New York: U.N. Department of Public
Information, 2000.
_________. “Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta.” [http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/history/dumbarton_yalta.shtml]
_________. “History of the United Nations, 1941-1950.” [http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/history/1941-1950.shtml]
_________. “San Francisco Conference.” [http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/history/sanfrancisco_conference.shtml]
_________. “Member States.” [http://www.un.org/en/members/growth.shtml] [Shows concisely which new member states were added in each year and keeps a running total of the U.N. member states.]
United Nations General Assembly. “The Millennium Assembly of the United Nations.” Resolution 53/202, 12 February 1999. [http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/53/202]
_________. “Road Map towards Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration: Report of the Secretary-General.” Resolution 56/326, 6 September 2001. [http://www.un.org/documents/ga/docs/56/a56326.pdf]
_________. “United Nations Millennium Declaration.” Resolution 55/2, 8 September 2000.
[http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm]
Weiss, Thomas G., and Sam Daws, eds. The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Weiss, Thomas G., and Ramesh Thakur. Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.