Admission to the United Nations

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Admission to the United Nations is written by Thomas D. Grant and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004173633 (ISBN 10) and 9789004173637 (ISBN 13).

The United Nations began as an alliance during World War II. Eventually, however, the UN came to approximate a universal organization - i.e., open to and aspiring to include all States. This presents a legal question, for Article 4 of the Charter contains substantive criteria to limit admission of States to the UN and no formal amendment has touched that part of the Charter. This book gives an up-to-date account of admission to the UN, from the 1950s logjam through on-going controversies like Kosovo and Taiwan. With reference to Charter law, the book considers how Article 4 came to accommodate universality and what the future of a universal organization in a world of politically diverse States might be.