Building States: The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945-1965

by Eva-Maria Muschik

Book Overview

Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the world were still under imperial control. Building States investigates how the UN tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960s--and helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231200250
• ISBN13: 9780231200257
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"