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The General Assembly in World Politics. By M. J. Peterson. Boston, London, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986. Pp. xii, 320. Index. $35.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Richard N. Swift
Richard N. Swift*
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New York University
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 82 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 178 - 183
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1988

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References

1 15 UN GAOR (883d plen. mtg.) at 332, UN Doc. A/PV.883 (1960).

2 11 UN SCOR (746th mtg.) at 2–3, UN Doc. S/PV.746 (1956).

3 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, addressing the UN Correspondents’ Association on Apr. 28, 1986, tried to insist that “no single country should be in a position . . . to blackmail the United Nations.” UN Chief Suggests U.S. Contribution Be Cut, N.Y. Times, Apr. 29, 1986, at A11, col. 1.

4 GA Res. 41/213 (Dec. 19, 1986), reprinted in 26 ILM 138 (1987). Peterson, at pp. 123–35, does discuss earlier UN financial crises caused by states’ slowness to pay.

5 651 Parl. Deb., H.C. (5th ser.) 755 (1961). Peterson, at pp. 133–34, slightly alters the quotation although she also cites Claude, The Political Framework of the United Nations’ Financial Problems, 17 Int’l Org. 831, 850 (1963)Google Scholar, whose version is correct.

6 Peterson unaccountably omits Myres S. McDougal from her pantheon of authors who have contributed to this debate.

7 Citing I. Detter, Law Making by International Organizations 114–15 (1965), where Detter deals with UN registration of treaties. Detter deals with the subject more generally in ch. 1, sees. IV and V.

8 GA Res. 377, 5 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 20) at 10, UN Doc. A/1775 (1951).

9 The eighth preambular paragraph of GA Res. 3232, 29 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 31) at 141, UN Doc. A/9631 (1975).

10 GA Res. 2749, 25 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 28) at 24, UN Doc. A/8028 (1970).

11 Citing a letter from a “Group of Legal Experts” that purportedly appears at 8 Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, Official Records 80 (1980), but that volume actually appeared in 1978 and deals with deliberations held in 1977.

12 Quoting Reservations to the Convention on Genocide, 1951 ICJ Rep. 15, 23 (Advisory Opinion of May 28).

13 Peterson slightly alters the quotation as it appears in 37 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 1) at 4, UN Doc. A/37/1 (1982).

14 Peterson’s version differs slightly from the original Statement Made by the Secretary-General at the Opening Meeting of the Group of Experts on the Structure of the U N System. See A New United Nations Structure for Global Economic Co-operation, Ann. I, UN Doc. E/AC.62/9, at 64 (1975).