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This Is A Comprehensive History Of International Organizations From Their Very Beginning At The Congress Of Vienna In 1815 Up To The Present Day, And Provides The Readers With Nearly Two Centuries Of World History Seen From The Perspective Of International Organizations.--cover, P. 4. Emergence And Evolution Of International Organizations -- 1815: The British Postwar Institutional Strategy And The Concert Of Europe -- The Central Commission For The Navigation Of The Rhine And Burgeoning Free Trade -- Citizens Organizing Transnationally In Support Of Slavery Abolition And Peace -- The International Red Cross Made Responsible For The Geneva Convention On Wounded Soldiers (1864) -- Arbitration And International Law As Normative Powers In International Relations / The 1899 And 1907 Peace Conferences In The Hague And The Hague System -- Creation Of The International Telegraph Union (1865) And The Universal Postal Union (1874) -- Standardization And Intellectual Property Regulated Internationally -- Regulation Of International Shipping, Railway And Road Traffic -- Public International Unions And The Creation Of Continental Markets In Europe And The Americas (1860-1910) -- International Business Around The End Of The Nineteenth Century --^ Rising International Emancipation Movements Of Workers And Women -- International Labour Conventions (1906) And The Foundation For The Welfare State -- The First World War And The Creation Of The League Of Nations (1919) -- The Major Powers And Collective Security In The Interwar Period -- The Normative Workings Of The International Labour Organization (1919) -- The League Of Nations' Ongoing Economic And Social Activities -- Multilateral Cooperation During The Second World War -- The United Nations: An Improved Security Organization With Economic Coordination -- The Workings Of The United Nations System -- Refugees, Peacekeeping And Cold War At The United Nations -- Regional Alliances In The 1940s And 1950s -- Peaceful Coexistence And Nuclear Weapons Control At The United Nations -- Regional Alliances In The 1940s And 1950s -- Peaceful Coexistence And Nuclear Weapons Control At The United Nations --^ The Troubled Start Of The Bretton Woods Institutions Ibrd And Imf And The Gatt Regime -- Marshall Aid, Eastern European Integration, Western European Integration And The Workings Of The Oecd -- The Weakening Of The Bretton Woods System And The Emergence Of The G7 (1975) -- Decolonization, Anti-apartheid And The Consequences Of The Vietnam War -- The United Nations Development Decade: North Versus South During The 1960s -- The Third World Struggle For A New International Economic Order (1974) -- Ngos And Development Aid, The Un International Women's Year (1975) And Environmental Protection -- Human Rights As A Normative Power And The Amnesty International Model -- Us President Reagan Intensifies The Cold War -- Reagonomics, The Debt Crisis In The South And The Structural Adjustment Programmes In The Imf -- The Fall Of The Berlin Wall (1989) And The End Of The Cold War -- A New Word Order And An Agenda For Peace? Hope And Bitter Failure For Un Peacekeeping Missions --^ ^efforts To Maintain Collective Security: Sanctions, Ngos And Un Tribunals -- Boosting Free Trade Again: From Gatt To World Trade Organization (1995) -- The Dominant Free Trade Regime: Environment And Welfare State Under Pressure -- Imf, Ibrd And Wto Criticized By States And The Anti-globalization Movement -- The Third World Answer To Globalization: Continued And New Regionalism -- From European Community To European Union (1993): Deepening And Enlargement -- International Organizations Under Pressure. Bob Reinalda. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.