Votes In The Un General Assembly

Votes in the UN General Assembly describes the workings of the international community's most representative forum over the past five decades. It chronicles the behavior of States through their participation in the debates on, and the search for solutions to, the crucial problems facing humanity. The book also offers the first detailed analysis of how countries vote in the Assembly. This study will serve to understand better the UN's past as the Organization looks to the future.

The United Nations General Assembly is arguably the most important discussion forum for global politics. This volume examines the history, organization and politics of the institution and assesses its future prospects.

This Handbook brings together scholars whose essays discuss significant issues with regard to international organization as a process and international organizations as institutions. Although the focus is on intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are discussed where relevant. The handbook is divided into six parts: Documentation, Data Sets and Sources International Secretariats as Bureaucracies Actors within International Bureaucracies Processes within International Bureaucracies Challenges to International Organizations, and Expanding International Architectures. The state-of-the-art articles are meant to encourage current and future generations of scholars to enjoy working in and further exploiting the field and are also of great interest to practitioners of international organization and global governance