LEADER 03463nam 2200565 450 001 9910823909503321 005 20210104035851.0 010 $a1-5017-5270-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501752728 035 $a(CKB)5590000000006058 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6110324 035 $a(OCoLC)1141934559 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse85355 035 $a(DE-B1597)546807 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501752728 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002535123 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000006058 100 $a20210416e20212020 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFulfilling the sacred trust $ethe UN campaign for international accountability for dependent territories in the era of decolonization /$fMary Ann Heiss$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (304 pages) 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2020. 311 $a1-5017-5271-5 311 $a1-5017-5272-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 8 $aThis text explores the implementation of international accountability for dependent territories under the United Nations during the early Cold War era. Although the Western nations that drafted the UN Charter saw the organization as a means of maintaining the international status quo they controlled, newly independent nations saw the UN as an instrument of decolonization and an agent of change disrupting global political norms. The book documents the unprecedented process through which these new nations came to wrest control of the United Nations from the World War II victors that founded it, allowing the UN to become a vehicle for global reform. It examines the consequences of these early changes on the global political landscape in the midst of heightened international tensions playing out in Europe, the developing world, and the UN General Assembly. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aDecolonization 606 $aNon-self-governing territories 606 $aSelf-determination, National 610 $aDecolinization, cold war, United Nations, UN general assembly, international colonial accountability. 610 $aInternational Human Rights. 615 0$aDecolonization. 615 0$aNon-self-governing territories. 615 0$aSelf-determination, National. 676 $a325.3 700 $aHeiss$b Mary Ann$f1961-$01627869 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823909503321 996 $aFulfilling the sacred trust$93964675 997 $aUNINA