The United Nations
International Approach to the Interpretation of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
In 1980, the United Nations Convention for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) came into being as an attempt to create a uniform commercial sales law.
Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards
The debate on indigenous rights has revealed some serious difficulties for current international law, posed mainly by different understandings of important concepts.
European Union at the United Nations
This is the first book to examine in depth the European Union's relationship with the United Nations and to analyze critically the EU's contribution to 'effective multilateralism'.
United Nations and Global Security
Many have proclaimed the fundamentals of global security were altered by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Do these changes undercut or enhance the role of the United Nations? What do events like the role of the UN in the crisis over Iraq tell us?
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
A much-needed new examination of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), fully covering its history and current activities.
United Nations
Few Americans understand why the United Nations functions the way it does, and why it seems so ineffectual in facing catastrophes like those in the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, and Palestine/Israel.