CONTENTS:-
PART-I: HISTORY, ORGANS AND FUNCTIONS
The United Nations: History and Evolution / Sangit Sarita Dwivedi
Aims and Objectives of the United nations / Sangit sarita Dwivedi
The General Assembly / Priya bala
United nations Security Council / Swati Parwal
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) / Nidhi Sinha
The United Nation's Trusteeship Council and Decolonization / Robert Mizo
International Court of Justice / Nidhi Sinha
Secretary-General / megha and Pawan Kumar
United Nations and Collective Security / Chanchal Kumar
Role of United Nations in Disarmament and Arms Control / Chanchal Kumar
PART-II: MAJOR GLOBAL CONFLICTS SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Korean Crisis / Sangit sarita Dwivedi
The Vietnam Conflict(1955-75) / Priya Bala
The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the UN / Rashmi Gopi
Iran-Iraq and Gulf wars / Yasmeen Akhtar
The Afghan wars / Yasmeen Akhtar
The crises in the Balkans: Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina / Pawan Kumar
PART-III: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES
Human Rights: Conventions, Codification, institutional Development and practice / Megha, Chanchal Kumar
Global Environmental Change and the United Nations / Rajiv Ranjan
Women Rights: Group Rights Institutional Development, Mobilization and Practice / Yasmeen Akhtar
The United Nations and the Issue of Peace (Peace-Keeping, Peace -making and Peace -Building) / Robert Mizo
United Nations and Development: an Agenda for All / Rajiv Ranjan
United Nations and Specialized Agencies / Swati Parwal
United Nations and NGOs / Megha
UN and the Refugee Problem / Chanchal Kumar
Indigenous Peoples / Chanchal Kumar
The problem of Apartheid / Pawan Kumar
PART-IV: REFORMS
Political Assessment of the United Nations: The Imperative for Reform and the Process of Reform / Sanju Gupta