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UN Crisis Project (Clark, Lytle, Thomas)

Choose a specific crisis or issue and assess: What motivated the UN to act (or not)? How successful the UN was in moderating the situation? Was the UN able to achieve goals of promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights?

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This ebook is recommended by the History Department.

Choices: Nuclear Weapons
E Book from the Choices group on Nuclear Weapons. Used with Permission.

Great Debates at the United Nations
by Robert F. Gorman Provides information and critical examinations of the fifty most important issues debated in the history of the United Nations from 1945 to 2000.
Call Number: 341.23 Gor
Publication Date: 2001
History Behind the Headlines
by Thomson Gale Staff; Meghan Appel Omeara (Editor) While not as useful for issues since 2003, this is a great set of resources for hotbed issues that occurred before then.
Call Number: REF 909.82 His
Publication Date: 2003
New Nukes
by Praful Bidwai; Achin Vanaik; Arundhati Roy (Introduction by) Looks at India, Pakistan, and global nuclear disarmament
Call Number: 327.1747 Bid
Publication Date: 2004

Last Updated: Sep 17, 2023 9:22 PM
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Subjects: History, Upper School, World History

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