THE UNITED NATIONS: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND WORLD POLITICS is a comprehensive guide to all that is relevant to the United Nations from its inception to these opening years of the millennium, analyzing the history, processes, structure and functions of the organization.While the thread of terror weaves its way through the text, the textbook discusses the United Nation's continuing role in assisting nations and peoples in distress from underdevelopment, from population overload, from pandemic disease, and political instability.