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Parent topics
- Diplomacy (foreign policy): The process of negotiations, among nations, usually by accredited representatives of a government. While the details of the negotiations may not be public information, the fact of the diplomatic negotiations is official and acknowledged [e]
- International law: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Core organizations
- United Nations Charter: The core "rule book" for jurisdiction of the United Nations [e]
- Secretary-General of the United Nations: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations General Assembly: Add brief definition or description
United Nations Security Council: One of the principal organs of the United Nations, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. [e]
United Nations Security Council resolutions: Over 2000 resolutions have been passed by the United Nations Security Council [e]
Technical agencies
- Food and Agriculture Organization: A policy, technical, and operational agency, under the auspices of the United Nations, which deals with agriculture, fisheries and forestry, as well as humanitarian relief of hunger [e]
- International Atomic Energy Agency: An international organization established in July 1957, which seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for military purposes. [e]
- International Maritime Organization: The United Nations agency responsible for avoiding pollution from ships, and implementing the Safety of Life at Sea convention [e]
- UNESCO: Specialized agency of the UN, created in 1946, to aid peace by promoting international cooperation in education, science, and culture. [e]
- UNSCOM: A United Nations agency, created in April 1991, to inspect Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and long-range guided missiles, and to supervise destruction of weapons and production facilities [e]
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Within the United Nations organization, the senior staff official responsible for human rights matters [e]
- UN Human Rights Council: A multinational body, supported by but separate from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, created by the United Nations General Assembly in 2006 [e]
- United Nations Development Programme: UN organization chartered with carrying out worldwide development goals, beginning with cutting world poverty in half by the year 2015 [e]
- World Food Programme: Add brief definition or description
- World Health Organization: United Nations' agency for health, focussing on the control and prevention of diseases, and the support for international health programs. [e]
Initiatives
- Korean War: (1950-1953) war on the Korean peninsula in which about 3 million people died (mostly civilians), begun when North Korea, backed by China, attempted to overrun South Korea, which had been placed under the control of U.S.-led United Nations forces after the surrender of Japan at the end of WW II. [e]
- Quartet on the Middle East: An international group comprising the United Nations, the European Union, the United States of America and Russia, concerned with bringing about an agreed settlement in the conflict over Israel and Palestine. [e]
Diplomatic representation
- Susan Rice: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama administration; previously senior fellow in foreign policy, Brookings Institution [e]
History
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration: International agency chartered in Atlantic City, New Jersey in November, 1943 and tasked with providing relief to refugees in Europe and China in the aftermath of World War II. [e]
- International Show of Peace Concert: Planned global peace concert featuring musicians, celebrities, and politicians, that was to be held at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, China in 2010. [e]
- America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy: Add brief definition or description
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- Anatoly Marchenko [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arab-Israeli Conflict [r]: The series of wars and military tension between the State of Israel and Arab states; often includes the Israel-Palestine Conflict, a remnant of the wars between countries [e]
- Arthur Szyk [r]: (1894–) Polish-born American artist. [e]
- Arudou Debito [r]: (有道出人) Japanese human rights activist, teacher and author; born and brought up in the United States, he became a naturalised Japanese citizen in 2000 (born 1965). [e]
- Baha'i Faith [r]: A monotheistic religion founded in the mid-19th century in Persia, which emphasizes the unity of all humans as one race and prior religions as all being legitimate revelations from God. [e]
- Barack Obama [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Conspiracy theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Danielle Pletka [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dean Rusk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Digital selective calling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eleanor Roosevelt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- France [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Franklin D. Roosevelt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gao Yaojie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gaza Strip [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George W. Bush Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Georgia (country) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Germany [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Global Maritime Distress and Safety System [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Global justice [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Global warming [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Grand strategy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gulf War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Harry S. Truman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henrik Shipstead [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hostis humani generis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human rights [r]: Add brief definition or description
- India [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Insurgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International wheat production statistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iraq [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ireland (state) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Italy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jesse Helms [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John F. Kennedy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kosovo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Laos, History [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Law [r]: Add brief definition or description
- League of Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Led Zeppelin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Netherlands [r]: Add brief definition or description
- New York City [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nobel Prize [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nongovernmental organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nonprofit Terminology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul A. Volcker [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul K. Van Riper [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peace operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Politics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pollinator decline [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sovereign state [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Space law [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spanish language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- State [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Strait of Malacca [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sustainable development [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Swarming (military) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Pentagon's New Map [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Prem Rawat Foundation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tony Blair [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Transgenic plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vessel monitoring system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Lyon Mackenzie King [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wilsonianism [r]: Add brief definition or description