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index 309 About the United Nations Intellectual History Project Ideas and concepts are a driving force in human progress, and they are arguably the most important contribution of the United Nations. Yet there has been little historical study of the origins and evolution of the history of economic and social ideas cultivated within the world organization and of their impact on wider thinking and international action. The United Nations Intellectual History Project is filling this knowledge gap about the UN by tracing the origin and analyzing the evolution of key ideas and concepts about international economic and social development that were born or nurtured under UN auspices. UNIHP began operations in mid-1999 when the secretariat, the hub of a worldwide network of specialists on the UN, was established at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies of The CUNY Graduate Center. UNIHP has two main components, oral history interviews and a series of books on specific topics. The seventy-nine in-depth oral history interviews with leading contributors to crucial ideas and concepts within the UN system provide the raw material for this volume and other volumes. In addition, complete and indexed transcripts are available to researchers and the general public in an electronic book format on CD-Rom distributed by the secretariat. The project has commissioned fifteen studies about the major economic and social ideas or concepts that are central to UN activity, which are being published by Indiana University Press. • Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges, by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss (2001) • Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas: Perspectives from the UN Regional Commissions, edited by Yves Berthelot with contributions from Adebayo Adedeji, Yves Berthelot, Leelananda de Silva, Paul Rayment, Gert Rosenthal, and Blandine Destremeau (2003) • Quantifying the World: UN Contributions to Statistics, by Michael Ward (2004) • UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice, by Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, Dharam Ghai, and Frédéric Lapeyre (2004) 310 index • The UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance, and Development, by John Toye and Richard Toye (2004) • UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice, by Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly (2005) • Women, Development, and the United Nations: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice, by Devaki Jain (2005) • Human Security and the UN: A Critical History, by S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong (2006) • Preventive Diplomacy at the UN, by Bertrand G. Ramcharan (2007) • Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice, Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi (2008) • The UN and Transnational Corporations: From Code of Conduct to Global Compact,, by Tagi Sagafi-nejad in collaboration with John Dunning (2008) • The UN and Development: From Aid to Cooperation, by Olav Stokke (2009) • UN Ideas That Changed the World, by Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss (2009) Forthcoming Titles: • Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey, by Thomas G. Weiss and Ramesh Thakur • Development without Destruction: The UN and Global Resource Management, by Nico Schrijver The project also collaborated on The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws, published by Oxford University Press in 2007. For further information, the interested reader should contact: UN Intellectual History Project The CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5203 New York, New York 10016-4309 212-817-1920 Tel 212-817-1565 Fax UNHistory@gc.cuny.edu www.unhistory.org 310 about the united nations intellectual history project ...

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