Simon Chesterman is Dean and Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He is also Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law.Ian Johnstone is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He is on the editorial board of Global Governance and International Organizations Law Review.David M. Malone is Rector of the UN University (UNU) in Tokyo and Under-Secretary-General of the UN. He has served as a Canadian ambassador to the UN and as Canada's high commissioner to India, and from 2004 to 2006 oversaw multilateral and economic diplomacy within Canada's Foreign Affairs Department.

This book is overdue and immensely valuable. The United Nations used to merit a couple of chapters in an often dry-as-dust casebook on international organizations generally, chapters devoted to the law of the Charter but never the political practice that illuminates it and makes it both trying and occasionally triumphant. Here, at last, is a volume entirely devoted to the United Nations for scholars of both international law and international relations, in an accessible format with challenging issues at every turn."-Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of the New America Foundation

• Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Part I - Relevance Chapter 1 The UN Charter Chapter 2 Hard Cases Chapter 3 Hard Choices Part II - Capacity Chapter 4: Legal Status Chapter 5 The Secretary-General and the Secretariat Chapter 6 Membership Chapter 7 Structure, Financing, and Administration PART III - Practice Chapter 8 Counter-Terrorism and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Chapter 9 Peace Operations Chapter 10 Sanctions Chapter 11 Sustainable Development Chapter 12 Self-Determination and Democracy Promotion Chapter 13 Human Rights Chapter 14 The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice Part IV - Accountability Chapter 15 Immunity and Responsibility Chapter 16 Accountability in Practice Chapter 17 Reform Appendices Charter of the United Nations Statute of the International Court of Justice Index

Simon Chesterman is Dean and Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He is also Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law.Ian Johnstone is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He is on the editorial board of Global Governance and International Organizations Law Review.David M. Malone is Rector of the UN University (UNU) in Tokyo and Under-Secretary-General of the UN. He has served as a Canadian ambassador to the UN and as Canada's high commissioner to India, and from 2004 to 2006 oversaw multilateral and economic diplomacy within Canada's Foreign Affairs Department.

This book is overdue and immensely valuable. The United Nations used to merit a couple of chapters in an often dry-as-dust casebook on international organizations generally, chapters devoted to the law of the Charter but never the political practice that illuminates it and makes it both trying and occasionally triumphant. Here, at last, is a volume entirely devoted to the United Nations for scholars of both international law and international relations, in an accessible format with challenging issues at every turn."-Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of the New America Foundation

• Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Part I - Relevance Chapter 1 The UN Charter Chapter 2 Hard Cases Chapter 3 Hard Choices Part II - Capacity Chapter 4: Legal Status Chapter 5 The Secretary-General and the Secretariat Chapter 6 Membership Chapter 7 Structure, Financing, and Administration PART III - Practice Chapter 8 Counter-Terrorism and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Chapter 9 Peace Operations Chapter 10 Sanctions Chapter 11 Sustainable Development Chapter 12 Self-Determination and Democracy Promotion Chapter 13 Human Rights Chapter 14 The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice Part IV - Accountability Chapter 15 Immunity and Responsibility Chapter 16 Accountability in Practice Chapter 17 Reform Appendices Charter of the United Nations Statute of the International Court of Justice Index

Simon Chesterman is Dean and Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He is also Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law.Ian Johnstone is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He is on the editorial board of Global Governance and International Organizations Law Review.David M. Malone is Rector of the UN University (UNU) in Tokyo and Under-Secretary-General of the UN. He has served as a Canadian ambassador to the UN and as Canada's high commissioner to India, and from 2004 to 2006 oversaw multilateral and economic diplomacy within Canada's Foreign Affairs Department.

This book is overdue and immensely valuable. The United Nations used to merit a couple of chapters in an often dry-as-dust casebook on international organizations generally, chapters devoted to the law of the Charter but never the political practice that illuminates it and makes it both trying and occasionally triumphant. Here, at last, is a volume entirely devoted to the United Nations for scholars of both international law and international relations, in an accessible format with challenging issues at every turn."-Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of the New America Foundation

• Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Part I - Relevance Chapter 1 The UN Charter Chapter 2 Hard Cases Chapter 3 Hard Choices Part II - Capacity Chapter 4: Legal Status Chapter 5 The Secretary-General and the Secretariat Chapter 6 Membership Chapter 7 Structure, Financing, and Administration PART III - Practice Chapter 8 Counter-Terrorism and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Chapter 9 Peace Operations Chapter 10 Sanctions Chapter 11 Sustainable Development Chapter 12 Self-Determination and Democracy Promotion Chapter 13 Human Rights Chapter 14 The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice Part IV - Accountability Chapter 15 Immunity and Responsibility Chapter 16 Accountability in Practice Chapter 17 Reform Appendices Charter of the United Nations Statute of the International Court of Justice Index