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The roles of the United Nations - Adam Roberts and Benedict Kingsbury (eds.), United Nations, Divided World, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, xii + 287 pp. - Paul Taylor and A. J. R. Groom (eds.), International Institutions At Work, London: Pinter, 1988, vii + 245pp. - H. G. Nicholas, The United Nations as a Political Institution, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975 (5th edn, reprinted 1987), viii + 263 pp. - M. J. Peterson, The General Assembly in World Politics, Boston, Mass.: Allen and Unwin, 1986, xiii + 320 pp. - Yves Beigbeder, Threats to the International Civil Service: Past Pressures and New Trends, London: Pinter, 1988, ix + 186 pp. - Jeffrey Harrod and Nico Schrijver (eds.), The UN Under Attack, Aldershot: Gower, 1988, xvii-H 156 pp. - Joseph Preston Baratta (compiler), Strengthening the United Nations: A Bibliography on UN Reform and World Federalism, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1987, ix + 351 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Nicholas A. Sims
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Review of International Studies , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 85 - 95
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1990

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