Historical dictionary of the United Nations - A. LeRoy Bennett

The United Nations, as the sole universal, general-purpose, international organization, represents the cooperative instrument through which nations of the world attempt to promote world peace and security, economic and social development, human rights, environmental protection, and the progressive development of international law. The items in the dictionary include United Nations programs, events, key persons, concepts, agencies, disputes, and documents pertaining to the United Nations and its predecessor, the League of Nations. Useful supplementary materials include an extensive introduction, chronology of events, bibliography, a list of acronyms, texts of the League of Nations Covenant and Charter of the United Nations, a table of member states, a list of Presidents of the General Assembly, and photographs of each of the Secretaries-General. This book should be not only a valuable library reference, but a resource tool for scholars of United Nations affairs.