DAVID P. FORSYTHE is Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska. He holds a PhD from Princeton University and won the Dauer Prize with his book Human Rights and US Foreign Policy. He is also the author of Human Rights and World Politics.

• Foreword by Brian Urquhart Preface by David P. Forsythe Notes on the Contributors Introduction by David P. Forsythe PART I PRINCIPAL UN ORGANS The Security Council: Paying for Peacekeeping; A.James The General Assembly: Negotiating the Convention on Torture; P.R.Baehr The Economic and Social Council and the New International Economic Order; J.Kaufmann PART II ISSUES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY UCTAD as an Agent of Change; S.J.Michalak The UN Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations; T.G.Weiss The UN Economic Commission for Africa: Continental Development and Self-reliance; T.M.Shaw High Technology and the UN; J.A.Hart PART III SOCIAL POLICY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY The Political Economy of UN Refugee Programmes; D.P.Forsythe The Struggle to Control UNESCO; L.S.Finkelstein The UN and Decolonisation in Namibia; R.Dale; Tripartitism and the ILO; G.Kruglak PART IV: CONCLUSIONS Perspectives on the United Nations; R.A.Falk The United Nations in Crisis; H.K.Jacobson Index