The United Nations vs. human rights
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This article provides an evaluation of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The author criticizes the Commission due to its membership which included an assortment of human rights abusers, including Syria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, and excluded the United States.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 2003
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Selective commitment
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Post-Cold War America is concerned with the identification of its global commitments. The US, therefore, should be involved in the rebuilding of Europe's post-communist states and the construction of a security structure in the Far East.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 1992
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Europe was behind US defeat at the United Nations
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The US has failed to win a seat allocated for western countries in the United Nations, and the three available seats have gone to Sweden, Austria and France.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 2001
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