Votes in the UN General Assembly

Appendixes. Preface. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Tables. Figures. Introduction. Part One: The Stage and the Actors. 1: The International Community's Most Representative Forum. A universal organization. The rules of the game. Regarding majorities and minorities. 2: A Half-Century of Debates. An ever-heavier agenda. Consistency and contradiction. The difficult questions. The fundamental issues. The Organization's functioning. Part Two: Voting Patterns. 3: The Resolutions and the Votes. An ocean of resolutions. The vetoes in the Security Council. Triple, double and single rejections.4: Coincidences and Discrepancies. The tools of analysis. General trends, 1946-1996. Some signposts. The five stages. The contours of a new agenda. Epilogue. Appendixes. Index.