A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations

A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations in Europe

Details of “A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations”

  • Author: Volger, Helmut, editor.
  • Publication details: New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002.
  • Preface by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations

Review of “A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations”

According to “Introduction to Research in International Law” (see Further Reading) this dictionary of international law is an English edition of the German “Lexikon der Vereinten Nationen” and provides “concise and comprehensive information not only about the structure of the UN system, its goals and functions, but about recent developments and reform efforts in the face of global opportunities and challenges. The contributing authors are academic scholars of international law, economics and political sciences; active and former diplomats and UN officials; journalists and members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and offer
a variety of interesting perspectives. The entries are provided with Internet addresses for further information and are supplemented in the annex with a trilingual list (English-French-German) of the most important institutions and items of the official terminology and a list of information facilities concerning the United Nations.”

Table of Contents of the Encyclopedia

  • Africa as Topic in the UN (Konrad Melchers)
  • Agenda for Development (Klaus Hüfner)
  • Agenda for Peace (Erwin A. Schmidl)
  • Aggression, Definition of (Ulrich Fastenrath)
  • Budget (Klaus Hüfner)
  • Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States (Mir A. Ferdowsi)
  • Charter of the UN (Manfred Knapp)
  • Collective Security (Peter J. Opitz)
  • Committees, System of (Helmut Volger / Peter M. Schulze)
  • Common Heritage of Mankind (Gregor Kolk)
  • Control Mechanisms in the UN, External and Internal (Klaus Hüfner)
  • Coordination in the UN System (Dieter Göthel)
  • CSD – Commission on Sustainable Development (Jürgen Maier)
  • Decolonization (Heike Henn)
  • Democratization and the UN (Jens Naumann)
  • Depository Libraries (Ramona Kohrs)
  • Deutscher Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), Positions of the German Parties towards the UN
  • Deutscher Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), Subcommittee on the United Nations
  • Development Cooperation of the UN System (Inge Kaul)
  • Development Research, Development Theories (Inge Kaul)
  • Disarmament (Hans Günter Brauch)
  • Documentation System (Ramona Kohrs)
  • Economic Commissions, Regional (Peter Tobias Stoll)
  • ECOSOC – Economic and Social Council (Wolfgang Spröte)
  • Electoral Assistance (Simone Schwanitz)
  • Enemy State Clauses (Jörn Axel Kämmerer)
  • Environmental Law, International (Ulrich Beyerlin)
  • Environmental Protection (Jürgen Maier)
  • European Union, Common Foreign and Security Policy at the UN (Hans Arnold)
  • FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization (Barbara Hofner)
  • Financial Crises (Klaus Hüfner)
  • General Assembly (Jürgen Heideking †)
  • Geneva Group (Günther Altenburg)
  • German Translation Section (Ruprecht Paqué)
  • Globalization (Sabine von Schorlemer)
  • Group of 77 and the UN (Mir A. Ferdowsi)
  • Groups and Groupings in the UN (Ingo Winkelmann)
  • History of the Foundation of the UN (Helmut Volger)
  • History of the UN (Helmut Volger)
  • Host State Agreements (Hans-Joachim Heintze)
  • Human Development Reports (Stephan Klingebiel)
  • Human Rights (Norman Weiß)
  • Human Rights, Commission on (Gerhart R. Baum / Helmut Volger)
  • Human Rights, Protection of (Theo van Boven)
  • Human Rights, United Nations High Commissioner for (Alfred de Zayas)
  • Human Rights, Universal Declaration of (Peter J. Opitz)
  • Human Rights Committee (Eckart Klein)
  • Human Rights Conventions and their Measures of Implementation (Martina Haedrich)
  • Human Rights Conventions, CAT – Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
  • Treatment or Punishment (Martina Haedrich)
  • Human Rights Conventions, CCPR – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Eckart Klein)
  • Human Rights Conventions, CEDAW – Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling)
  • Human Rights Conventions, CERD – International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
  • Racial Discrimination (Martina Haedrich)
  • Human Rights Conventions, CESCR – International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Human Rights Conventions, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
  • Human Rights Conventions, CRC – Convention on the Rights of the Child (Joachim Betz)
  • Humanitarian Assistance (Gita Katarina Swamy)
  • Humanitarian Law, International (Hans-Joachim Heintze)
  • IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency (Marc Schattenmann)
  • ICAO – International Civil Aviation Organization (Helmut Volger)
  • ICC – International Criminal Court (Sabine von Schorlemer)
  • ICJ – International Court of Justice (Karin Oellers-Frahm)
  • ILC – International Law Commission (Bruno Simma)
  • ILO – International Labour Organization (Christian Jetzlsperger)
  • IMF – International Monetary Fund (Martina Metzger)
  • IMO – International Maritime Organization (Helmut Volger)
  • Independent Commissions, Reports of (Heike Henn)
  • INSTRAW – International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
  • International Economic Relations and New International Economic Order (NIEO) (Mir A. Ferdowsi)
  • International Law and the UN (Martina Haedrich)
  • International Organizations, Theory of (Klaus Dicke)
  • Internet, Websites of the UN System in the (Peter M. Schulze)
  • Intervention, Prohibition of (Isabelle Reinery)
  • ITLOS – International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Stefan Talmon)
  • ITU – International Telecommunication Union (Helmut Volger)
  • Languages (Ruprecht Paqué)
  • Languages, Official (Ruprecht Paqué)
  • Languages, Working (Ruprecht Paqué)
  • Law of the Sea (Stefan Talmon)
  • League of Nations (Jost Dülffer)
  • Membership and Representation of States (Stefan Talmon)
  • Minorities, Protection of (Ekkehard Strauss)
  • NG0s – Non-Governmental Organizations (Peter M. Schulze)
  • Non-Aligned Movement and the UN (Wolfgang Spröte)
  • North-South Relations and the UN (Joachim Betz)
  • Observers (Erwin A. Schmidl)
  • Observer Status (Anne Kathrin Dippel)
  • Peace, Peace Concept, Threat to Peace (Karlheinz Koppe)
  • Peaceful Settlement of Disputes (Norbert Ropers)
  • Peacekeeping (Brian Urquhart)
  • Peacekeeping Forces (Manfred Eisele)
  • Peacekeeping Operations (Erwin A. Schmidl)
  • Permanent Missions (Andrea Roth)
  • Personnel (Dieter Göthel)
  • Preventive Diplomacy (Norbert Ropers)
  • Principal Organs, Subsidiary Organs, Treaty Bodies (Helmut Volger)
  • Public Information of the UN (Axel Wüstenhagen)
  • Public Opinion and the UN (Reinhard Wesel)
  • Publications (Ramona Kohrs)
  • Reform of the UN (Klaus Dicke)
  • Regional Groups in the UN (Ingo Winkelmann)
  • Regionalization (Birgit Reichenstein)
  • Research about the UN (Günther Unser)
  • Resolution, Declaration, Decision (Bardo Fassbender)
  • Rules of Procedure (General Assembly, Security Council) (Bardo Fassbender)
  • Sanctions (Manfred Kulessa)
  • Secretariat (Helmut Volger)
  • Secretary-General (Helmut Volger)
  • Security Council (Ingo Winkelmann)
  • Self-Determination, Right of (Hans-Joachim Heintze)
  • Sovereignty (Bardo Fassbender)
  • Space Law (Hans-Joachim Heintze)
  • Specialized Agencies (Klaus Hüfner
  • Stamps (Ruprecht Paqué)
  • Terminology (Ruprecht Paqué)
  • Trade, International Law of (Jörn Axel Kämmerer)
  • Trusteeship Council (Helmut Volger)
  • UNCHS – United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat) (Johannes Goderbauer)
  • UNCITRAL – United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (Patrick Oliver Ott)
  • UNCIVPOL – United Nations Civilian Police (Erwin A. Schmidl)
  • UNCTAD – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Mir A. Ferdowsi)
  • UNDP – United Nations Development Programme (Stephan Klingebiel)
  • UNEP – United Nations Environment Programme (Jürgen Maier)
  • UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Klaus Hüfner)
  • UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund ( Manfred Kulessa)
  • UN Guards (Erwin A. Schmidl)
  • UNHCR – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Sadako Ogata)
  • UNICEF – United Nations Children’s Fund (Jana Mitterrnaier)
  • UNIDIR – United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (Sverre Lodgaard)
  • UNIDO – United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Manfred Kulessa)
  • UNIFEM – United Nations Development Fund for Women (Andreas Blätte)
  • UNITAR – United Nations Institute for Training and Research (Marina Walter)
  • Uniting for Peace Resolution (Marc Schattenmann)
  • Universality (Bardo Fassbender)
  • UN Office Bonn (Günther Altenburg)
  • UN Office Geneva (Hans J. Lassen)
  • UN Office Nairobi (Helmut Volger)
  • UN Office New York (Rahul Schwenk)
  • UN Office Vienna (Ingrid Lehmann)
  • UN Policy, China (Oskar Weggel)
  • UN Policy, France (Ursula Stiel)
  • UN Policy, German Democratic Republic (Bernhard Neugebauer)
  • UN Policy, Germany (Hans Arnold)
  • UN Policy, Japan (Günther Unser)
  • UN Policy, Russian Federation (Günther Unser)
  • UN Policy, United Kingdom (Alexander Theodoridis / Gregor Kolk)
  • UN Policy, USA (Frank Zitka)
  • UNRWA – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
  • UN Simulations, Model United Nations (Reinhard Wesel)
  • UN System (Klaus Hüfner)
  • UNTS – United Nations Treaty Series (Claudia Shirin Weisser)
  • UNU – United Nations University (Klaus Hüfner)
  • UNV – United Nations Volunteers (Manfred Kulessa)
  • UPU – Universal Postal Union ( Helmut Volger)
  • Use of Force, Prohibition of (Brigitte Reschke)
  • Veto, Right of Veto (Volker Löwe)
  • Voting Right and Decision-Making Procedures (Bardo Fassbender)
  • WFC – World Food Council (Barbara Hofner)
  • WFP – World Food Programme (Barbara Hofner)
  • WFUNA – World Federation of United Nations Associations (Klaus Hüfner)
  • WHO – World Health Organization (Wilfried Kreisel)
  • WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization (Helmut Volger)
  • WMO – World Meteorological Organization (Helmut Volger)
  • Women and the UN (Sonja Wölte)
  • World Bank (IBRD), World Bank Group (IFC/IDA/MIGA/ICSID) (Martina Metzger)
  • World Conferences (Franz Nuscheler)
  • World Reports (Helmut Volger)
  • WTO – World Trade Organization, GATT – General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Peter Tobias Stoll)

Resources

See Also

  • Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia, 1914
  • International Law: A Dictionary
  • Historical Dictionary of International Tribunals
  • Encyclopedia of Public International Law
  • Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
  • Osborn´s Concise Law Dictionary
  • Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law
  • List of Legal Encyclopedias
  • List of Legal Dictionaries

Further Reading

    • Introduction to Research in International Law, Research Guide,University of Southern California Libraries, available at usc.edu/libraries/locations/vkc/history/documents/INTLAWB.pdf
    • The Better Peoples of the United Nations? Europe’s Practice and the United Nations (B Fassbender – European Journal of International Law, 2004)
    • Analysis of United Nations Security Council Resolutions: Are All Countries Treated Equally, An (JS Gruenberg – Case W. Res. J. Int’l L., 2009)
    • Taking International Law Seriously-On the German Approach to International Law (PM Dupuy, K Traisbach – 2007)

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