A History of the United Nations: Vol. 1, The Years of Western Domination, 1945-1955. By Evan Luard. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 404. $27.50.)

1984 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 566-566
Author(s):  
Michael M. Gunter
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations

Underpowered and Mostly Unwanted

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Jean Bou
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Short History ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations

This chapter is a short history of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (unamir). It is based on an examination of the Australian deployment to Rwanda undertaken as part of the five-volume Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations. The chapter briefly charts the establishment, travails, reduction, re-establishment and then demise of this UN mission. In doing so highlights how unamir was perpetually dogged by having mandates that, while they seemed suitable when they were created in New York, were quickly overtaken by events in Rwanda. Moreover, after the genocide, the recreated unamir was forced to attempt to police the very people and institutions it was reliant on for its continued survival if it was to carry out its mandate.

The Politics of Decolonization: The New Nations and the United Nations Political Process

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 786-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Kay
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
New Members ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
One Year

The fifteenth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations which convened in New York in September 1960 marked an important turning point in the history of the Organization. The United Nations had been created primarily through the efforts of states with a European or European-derived political and social culture possessing a common history of political involvement at the international level. During its first ten years the Organization was dominated by the problems and conflicts of these same states. However, by 1955 the process of decolonization which has marked the post-1945 political arena began to be reflected in the membership of the United Nations. In the ten years preceding the end of 1955 ten new nations devoid of experience in the contemporary international arena and struggling with the multitudinous problems of fashioning coherent national entities in the face of both internal and external pressures joined the Organization. By 1960 the rising tide of decolonization had reached flood crest with the entry in that one year of seventeen new Members—sixteen of which were from Africa.

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