Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ian Shapiro and Joseph Lampert -- Documents -- From the Joint Statement of Winston S. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 11, 1945 -- From the address to Congress reporting on the Yalta Conference, Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 1, 1945 -- Address to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco, Harry S. Truman, April 25, 1945 -- Charter of the United Nations -- Statute of the International Court of Justice -- Part I: The United Nations Charter : structure, origins, and institutional change -- The UN Charter : a global constitution? / Michael W. Doyle -- Lost in translation? The League of Nations and the United Nations / M. Patrick Cottrell -- Has the UN lived up to its charter? / Stephen Schlesinger -- Change and the United Nations Charter / Edward C. Luck -- Part II: Early impact and state formation -- The United Nations and the emergence of independent India / Srinath Raghavan -- Palestine and Israel at the United Nations : partition, recognition, and membership / Debra Shushan -- Namibian independence : a UN success story / Jean Krasno -- Part III: The United Nations in the contemporary world -- A history of UN peacekeeping / James Dobbins -- Fighting the last war : the United Nations Charter in the age of the War on Terror / Oona A. Hathaway -- Science and politics on a warming planet : the IPCC and the representation of future generations / Joseph Lampert.