Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Lin Lin has more than two decades of experience in policy analysis and program development on education, social sciences, and IT. She is currently an Independent Policy Analyst and Writer. She has held posts in the capacity of senior/principal proposal technical writer, manager, or director at a number of top IT companies or international development organizations, with the most recent ones in General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), CSRA, CSC, Dell, and Shipley Associates in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.Seth Spaulding is a former Director of the Institute for International Studies in Education at the University of Pittsburgh, and now serves as Senior Advisor. He has been a Principal Director in the Education Sector of UNESCO and Director of UNESCO's International Bureau of Education in Geneva, Switzerland.

This is a revision of the original 1997 reference work of the same name by the original authors. Focusing principally on UNESCO's initiatives, programs, and projects, it contains new entries, reflecting the organization's evolution over the past 25 years and refreshing the first edition's content. Close to 700 pages (compared to 200 in the previous edition) with an updated introduction, bibliography, and chronology, this second edition both dwarfs and supplants its predecessor. Devoted to fostering scientific, educational, and cultural cooperation, UNESCO, one of the most prominent and controversial of the UN's specialized agencies, is engaged in a plethora of worldwide activities, many of them unknown, which this book highlights. Unfortunately, the organization’s politicization, a topic that is intentionally not explicitly addressed here, has blemished if not undermined UNESCO’s reputation and has often obscured its good work. [This] book’s expansive treatment of the full range of UNESCO's involvement on the world scene makes for an excellent ready reference that may help to rehabilitate its image. Suitable for academic libraries that have the earlier edition and others with international relations collections. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.

• Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography and more than 700 cross-referenced entries on UNESCO’s initiatives, programs, projects, normative instruments, and partners over the past 76 years.