The United Nations by Jussi M. HanhimakiCall Number: ProQuest eBook Central
ISBN: 9780195304374
Publication Date: 2008
After a brief history of the United Nations and its predecessor, the League of Nations, the author examines the UN's successes and failures as a guardian of international peace and security, as a promoter of human rights, as a protector of international law, and as an engineer of socio-economic development. Hanhimaki stresses that the UN's greatest problem has been the impossibly wide gap between its ambitions and capabilities.