03463nam 2200565 450 991079564920332120210104035851.01-5017-5270-710.1515/9781501752728(CKB)5590000000006058(MiAaPQ)EBC6110324(OCoLC)1141934559(MdBmJHUP)muse85355(DE-B1597)546807(DE-B1597)9781501752728(StDuBDS)EDZ0002535123(EXLCZ)99559000000000605820210416e20212020 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFulfilling the sacred trust the UN campaign for international accountability for dependent territories in the era of decolonization /Mary Ann Heiss[electronic resource]Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2021.1 online resource (304 pages)Cornell scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2020.1-5017-5271-5 1-5017-5272-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: toward international accountability for all dependent territories -- Laying the groundwork: International interest in non-self-governing territories -- Fits and starts: the contours of international accountability emerge -- Organizational foundations: the committee on information becomes operational -- Rhetoric and routine: the last vestiges of western dominance -- Taking off the gloves: new UN activism in the chapter XI territories -- Power shifts: the full-on drive for accountability -- Crossing the Rubicon: proponents of accountability take control -- Activism triumphant: achieving international colonial accountability -- Conclusion: international colonial accountability assessed.This text explores the implementation of international accountability for dependent territories under the United Nations during the early Cold War era. Although the Western nations that drafted the UN Charter saw the organization as a means of maintaining the international status quo they controlled, newly independent nations saw the UN as an instrument of decolonization and an agent of change disrupting global political norms. The book documents the unprecedented process through which these new nations came to wrest control of the United Nations from the World War II victors that founded it, allowing the UN to become a vehicle for global reform. It examines the consequences of these early changes on the global political landscape in the midst of heightened international tensions playing out in Europe, the developing world, and the UN General Assembly.Cornell scholarship online.DecolonizationNon-self-governing territoriesSelf-determination, NationalDecolinization, cold war, United Nations, UN general assembly, international colonial accountability.International Human Rights.Decolonization.Non-self-governing territories.Self-determination, National.325.3Heiss Mary Ann1961-1518876StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910795649203321Fulfilling the sacred trust3756676UNINA