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| The United Nations | ||
| This is a link to the United Nations. The UN is discussed numerous times throughout your textbook, but it is discussed in detail in Chapter 7, "International Organization: An Alternative Structure." According to the author, the United Nations is among many IGOs that strive to prevent international conflict and to restore the peace when violence occurs in the world. ( http://www.un.org ) | ||
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| United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations | ||
| The Charter of the United Nations gives the UN Security Council the power and responsibility to take collective action to maintain international peace and security. For this reason, the international community usually looks to the Security Council to authorize peacekeeping operations. Most of these operations are established and implemented by the United Nations itself with troops serving under UN operational command. UN peacekeepers—soldiers and military officers, civilian police officers and civilian personnel from many countries—monitor and observe peace processes that emerge in post-conflict situations and assist ex-combatants to implement the peace agreements they have signed. Such assistance comes in many forms, including confidence-building measures, power-sharing arrangements, electoral support, strengthening the rule of law, and economic and social development. ( http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/home.shtml ) | ||
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| European Union | ||
| This site follows the political and economic issues related to European integration, while also providing comprehensive information on the individual member countries, agencies and institutions of the Union, news, documents, and an annotated directory of Union activities and initiatives. ( http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm ) | ||
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| International Atomic Energy Agency | ||
| The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) serves as the world's central intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field and as the international inspectorate for the application of nuclear safeguards and verification measures covering civilian nuclear programs. A specialized agency within the United Nations system, the IAEA came into being in 1957, a few years after U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed the creation of an international atomic energy agency in his historic "Atoms for Peace" speech before the United Nations General Assembly. ( http://www.iaea.or.at/ ) | ||
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| International Court of Justice | ||
| The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Its seat is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands). ( http://www.icj-cij.org/ ) | ||
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | ||
| NATO is a transatlantic alliance of 26 countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the treaty signed in 4 April 1949. The fundamental role of NATO is to safeguard the freedom and security of its member countries by political and military means. ( http://www.nato.int/ ) | ||
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| Organization of American States | ||
| The OAS is an example of regional cooperation in the Western Hemisphere that is working more closely together than ever before to strengthening democracy, advancing human rights, promoting peace and security, expanding trade and tackling complex problems caused by poverty, drugs and corruption. ( http://www.oas.org/ ) | ||
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| World Health Organization | ||
| The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. WHO is governed by 192 Member States through the World Health Assembly. ( http://www.who.int/en/ ) | ||
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| World Bank | ||
| The World Bank Group’s mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to empower poor people to take advantage of these opportunities. ( http://www.worldbank.org ) | ||
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| Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) | ||
| ASEAN promotes economic, social, and cultural development, political cooperation, and regional peace and stability for its nine country members. Their site includes speeches, meeting schedules, documents, press releases, statistics, and other information. ( http://www.aseansec.org/home.htm ) | ||
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| African Union (AU) | ||
| The advent of the African Union (AU) can be described as an event of great magnitude in the institutional evolution of the continent. On 9.9.1999, the Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity issued a Declaration (the Sirte Declaration) calling for the establishment of an African Union, with a view, inter alia, to accelerating the process of integration in the continent to enable it play its rightful role in the global economy while addressing multifaceted social, economic and political problems compounded as they are by certain negative aspects of globalization. ( http://www.africa-union.org/home/Welcome.htm ) | ||
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