The United Nations. An Introduction

1. The United Nations System. 2. Institution-building, Regime Impact and Globalization: The Role and Function of the UN. 3. The Core of the United Nations: Collective Security. 4. The Changing Practice of Peacekeeping. 5. The United Nations and Human Rights: Normative Development, Codification and Definition. 6. Human Rights Protection: Institutional Framework and Code of Practice. 7. Economic, Development and Environmental Questions in the United Nations: Problems Areas and Institutional Design. 8. Reforms for the Twenty-first Century. 9. Conclusions.