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recto runninghead (chpt title) xi Tables and Boxes Table 1.1 Key Events over the UN’s Lifetime 15 Table 12.1 An Overview by Category of the Impact of Selected UN Ideas, 1945–2008 204 Box 2.1 UN Winners of the Nobel Prizes for Economics and Peace 36 Box 3.1 Three Early Giants of Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt, René Cassin, John Humphrey 53 Box 4.1 Women’s Contributions and Leadership at the UN 72 Box 5.1 The South Centre 86 Box 6.1 John Maynard Keynes and the Early Vision for Bretton Woods 104 Box 7.1 The Prebisch-Singer Thesis 121 Box 8.1 Jim Grant: Mobilizing the UN for Action 146 Box 9.1 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 151 Box 10.1 U Thant and the Cuban Missile Crisis 166 Box 11.1 Mahbub ul Haq and Amartya Sen: UN Intellectual Innovators 188 Box 13.1 Vision and the Challenges Ahead 222 Box 14.1 Advances in Global Economic Institutions for Governance 239 xii verso runninghead ...

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