United Nations
World History
U.S. History
(noun)
An intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation founded in 1945.
Examples of United Nations in the following topics:
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The United Nations
- The United Nations is the most important and influential international, intergovernmental organization.
- The United Nations was established to replace the flawed League of Nations, in order to maintain international peace and promote cooperation in solving international economic, social and humanitarian problems.
- The General Assembly is the main deliberative assembly and is composed of all United Nations member states.
- The United States is a charter member of the United Nations and one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
- The most important American contribution to the United Nations system is perhaps the Bretton Woods conference.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
- The full text is published by the United Nations on its website.
- The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation.
- The United Nations Charter was drafted at a conference in April–June 1945; this charter took effect 24 October 1945, and the UN began operation.
- For this reason, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations.
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United States in the World
- The United States interacts with foreign nations and sets standards for its organizations, corporations and individual citizens.
- The foreign policy of the United States is the way in which it interacts with foreign nations and sets standards of interaction for its organizations, corporations and individual citizens.
- It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and New York City hosts the United Nations Headquarters.
- Likewise, nearly all nations host American diplomatic missions.
- The Reserves and National Guard brought the total number of troops to 2.3 million.
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Defending the Nation
- The White House National Security Council is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials.
- Truman, the function of the Council has been to advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies.
- Council also has counterparts in the national security councils of many other nations.
- The National Security Council is chaired by the President.
- Identify the main function of the United States National Security Council
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The National Election Studies
- The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the leading academically run national survey of voters in the United States.
- The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the leading academically-run national survey of voters in the United States, conducted before and after every presidential election.
- Though the ANES was formally established by a National Science Foundation grant in 1977, the data are a continuation of studies going back to 1948.
- Early ANES data were the basis for The American Voter a seminal study of voting behavior in the United States, by Angus Campbell, Philip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes, colleagues at the University of Michigan.
- Based on one of the first comprehensive studies of election survey data (what eventually became the National Election Studies), came the conclusion that most voters cast their ballots primarily on the basis of partisan identification (which is often simply inherited from their parents), and that independent voters are actually the least involved in and attentive to politics.
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Providing National Security
- National security, a concept which developed mainly in the United States after World War II, is the protection of the state and its citizens through a variety of means, including military might, economic power, diplomacy, and power projection.
- using counterintelligence services or secret police to protect the nation from internal threats.
- There are a variety of governmental departments and agencies within the United States that are responsible for developing policies to ensure national security.
- The Central Intelligence Agency is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
- The White House National Security Council is the principal forum used by the President for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisers, and Cabinet officials.
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National Security Policy
- This concept developed primarily in the United States after World War II.
- The security of the United States, its citizens, and U.S. allies and partners
- Economic security is also a part of national security.
- In the United States, the controversial USA PATRIOT Act, as well as other recent government actions, has brought some of these issues to public attention.
- In 1949, the Central Intelligence Agency (headquarters depicted here) was established to further the United State's national security.
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Privacy Rights and National Security
- National security practices impact privacy rights for the well-being and domestic security of the United States.
- In the United States, the controversial USA Patriot Act has raised two main questions - to what extent should individual rights and freedoms be restricted and can the restriction of civil rights for the sake of national security be justified?
- The concept of national security became an official guiding principle of foreign policy in the United States when U.S.
- In the United States, the politically controversial USA Patriot Act and other government action has raised two main questions - to what extent should individual rights and freedoms be restricted and can the restriction of civil rights for the sake of national security be justified?
- United States President George W.
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The economic environment
- A nation's economic situation represents its current and potential capacity to produce goods and services.
- The industrialized nations are generally considered to be the United States, Japan, Canada, Russia, Australia, and most of Western Europe The economies of these nations are characterized by private enterprise and a consumer orientation.
- Finally, there are many less developed nations in today's world.
- The developing nations, on the other hand, have growing population bases, and although they currently import limited goods and services, the long-run potential for growth in these nations exists.
- Marketers in such nations must be educators, emphasizing information in their market programs.
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Nationalizing the Bill of Rights
- The Bill of Rights were included into state laws through selective incorporation, rather than through full incorporation or nationalization.
- The incorporation of the Bill of Rights (also called the incorporation doctrine) is the process by which American courts have applied portions of the United States' Bill of Rights to the states.
- This is referred to as "total" incorporation, or the "nationalization" of the Bill of Rights.
- Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black is noted for the complete nationalization of the Bill of Rights.
- Compare and contrast the difference between nationalization and selective incorporation of the Bill of Rights.