Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Blaine Sloan -- Abbreviations / Blaine Sloan -- Acknowledgments / Blaine Sloan -- Preface / Blaine Sloan -- Introduction Our Changing World / Blaine Sloan -- Chapter I The Nature and Function of United Nations General Assembly Resolutions / Blaine Sloan -- Chapter II The Relation of General Assembly Resolutions to Sources of International Law / Blaine Sloan -- Chapter III Effects and Factors / Blaine Sloan -- Chapter IV Opportunity in Our Changing World / Blaine Sloan -- Back Matter -- Conclusions / Blaine Sloan -- Annex I Resolution of the Institut de Droit International, Adopted at Its Cairo Session, 13-22 September 1987. / Blaine Sloan -- Annex II Opinions of the United Nations Legal Office / Blaine Sloan -- Annex III List of Conventions, Declarations and Other Instruments Adopted by the General Assembly at Its First to Forty-Fourth Session, 1946–1989 / Blaine Sloan -- Annex IV Declarations and Other Resolutions / Blaine Sloan -- Annex V San Francisco Statement on Charter Interpretation / Blaine Sloan -- Notes / Blaine Sloan -- Bibliography / Blaine Sloan -- Index / Blaine Sloan.

This thoughtful work by the world’s leading authority on the law of United Nations General Assembly Resolutions remains of inestimable value in its assessment of the potential role of these resolutions under the “New World Order.” An insider familiar with the institution’s complexities, Professor Sloan examines with insight and clarity the new opportunities available to the United Nations in a world released from the stifling restraints of the Cold War. The book includes detailed documentary annexes as well as a bibliography and index. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

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