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Gordenker, Leon was born on October 7, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Samuel and Anna (Posalsky) Gordenker.
(Where there has been fighting or the threat of fighting s...)
Where there has been fighting or the threat of fighting since the end of the Second World War, the United Nations has ahnost al ways been involved. Frequently that involvement has taken the concrete form of a field commission or a team of observers, made up of nationals of several countries and reporting to the General Assembly or the Security Council. Even while I write this, military observers wearing special United Nations insignia are patrolling the border areas of Syria and Lebanon. Meanwhile, observation groups with a longer history are on duty in Kashmir and along the Israeli borders. A field commission of the United Nations still remains in Korea, and others had been at work in Greece, Eritrea, Somalia and on the Hungarian border. All of them lived, worked and reported in an atmosphere of controversy. Perhaps none could have claimed that their work ended in full success. Their existence, however, suggests that the United Nations has developed a special political instrument for use in troubled areas where solutions are elusive but where danger of a spreading con flict is never distant. This study deals with the work of field com missions of the United Nations in Korea before the violence of 1950. Their work, whatever its merit, came crashing down with the North Korean attack.
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( This text examines the structure, operation and history...)
This text examines the structure, operation and history of the United Nations. It explains the historical roots of the UN system, its legal and organizational structures, and what the organization and its partners do in relation to major global events and issues. This revised and updated edition gives extended attention to peace-maintenance, human rights and economic and social development and examines the special position of the United States.
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( Of the thirty-seven million Latinos living in the Unite...)
Of the thirty-seven million Latinos living in the United States, nearly five million declare themselves to be either Pentecostal or Charismatic, and more convert every day. "Latino Pentecostal Identity" examines the historical and contemporary rise of Pentecostalism among Latinos, their conversion from other denominations, and the difficulties involved in reconciling conflicts of ethnic and religious identity. The book also looks at how evangelical groups encourage the severing of ethnic ties in favor of spiritual community and the ambivalence Latinos face when their faith fails to protect them from racial discrimination. Latinos are not new to Pentecostalism; indeed, they have been becoming Pentecostal for more than a hundred years. Thus several generations have never belonged to any other faith. Yet, as Arlene M. SAnchez Walsh articulates, the perception of adherents as Catholic converts persists, eliding the reality of a specific Latino Pentecostal population that both participates in the spiritual and material culture of the larger evangelical Christian movement and imprints that movement with its own experiences. Focusing on three groups of Latino Pentecostals/Charismatics -- the Assemblies of God, Victory Outreach, and the Vineyard -- SAnchez Walsh considers issues such as the commodification of Latino evangelical culture, the Latinization of Pentecostalism, and the ways in which Latino Pentecostals have differentiated themselves from the larger Latino Catholic culture. Extensive fieldwork, surveys, and personal interviews inform her research and show how, in an overwhelmingly Euro-American denomination, diverse Latino faith communities -- U.S. Chicano churches, pan--Latin American immigrant churches, and mixed Latin American and U.S. Latino churches -- have carved out their own unique religious space.
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In more than one hundred developing countries, international organizations continuously offer practical assistance for economic advancement and social change--assistance that in some cases forms a substantial part of national programs. This book examines international aid in three countries-Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia--in order to ascertain how assisting organizations exert influence on member governments. Professor Gordenker draws on interviews, information usually inaccessible to observers, and his own direct field observation of programs established by the United Nations' system of organizations in the three countries during the late 1960s, immediately after their independence from British administration. This period witnessed sharp changes in national development policies and the political turmoil produced by the Rhodesian revolt. The author analyzes in detail the creation, bureaucratic consideration, and execution of important projects. His conclusions cast doubt on the existence of a reliable process by which international organizations may influence national governments, and he explains why such doubt is well-founded. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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(This study explores the role of interorganizational relat...)
This study explores the role of interorganizational relations and social networks in facilitating - or, conversely, frustrating - co-operation in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It begins with an historical overview of AIDS as it relates to transnational policy processes and a critical review of the limiations of orthodox international relations approaches for describing and explaining such international co-operation. The book goes on to examine crucial aspects of the co-operation process, including politics of agenda-setting: when, how and why did organizational players and individual leaders come to pay serious attention to the AIDS issue at the international level? The evolving structure and process of interorganizational relations are analyzed with particular focus on mapping social networks among transnational actors and identifying associated social roles and positions. In this context, processes of both formal and informal coordination are investigated, as are network mobilization and network sustainability. Finally, the book focuses on leadership in international co-operation and explores the micro and macro foundations of leadership as it relates to the followership.
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Gordenker, Leon was born on October 7, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Samuel and Anna (Posalsky) Gordenker.
Bachelor of Arts Michigan, 1943. Student, Institute d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1952. Master of Arts, Columbia University, New York City, 1954.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York City, 1958. Postgraduate, Academy International Law, Hague, The Netherlands, 1958.
Journalist, Associated Press, 1943; journalist, Detroit Free Press, 1944-1945; information officer, National War Labor Board, 1945; public information officer, United Nations, 1945-1953; instructor, Dartmouth U., 1956-1958; member of faculty, Princeton University, since 1958; professor politics, Princeton University, 1966-1986; faculty associate Center International Studies, Princeton University, since 1963; professor emeritus, Princeton University, since 1986; senior research political scientist, Princeton University, 1990-1994; professor, Institut Universitaire de Hautes Internationales, Geneva, 1986-1989; visiting professor, Institut Universitaire de Hautes Internationales, Geneva, 1979-1980; director, Centre de Recherches sur les Institutions Internationales, Geneva, 1986-1989. Visiting professor Columbia University, 1961, 67, Makerere U., Uganda, 1969-1970, University of Pennsylvania, 1971, 74, U. Witwatersrand, South Africa, 1976, Leiden U., 1984-1985, 93, Erasmus U., 1985, CUNY, 1989, 90, 92, 95, Institute Social Studies, The Hague, 1993-1997. Research fellow Ralph Bunche Institute on United Nations, CUNY, since 1989.
( In more than one hundred developing countries, internat...)
(This study explores the role of interorganizational relat...)
( Of the thirty-seven million Latinos living in the Unite...)
(Where there has been fighting or the threat of fighting s...)
( This text examines the structure, operation and history...)
Member Academy Council on United Nations, Princeton Club of New York.
Married Belia Emilie Strootman, August 16, 1956 (deceased April 1984). Children: Robert Jan Mario, Hendrik Willem Paul, Emilie Elise Saskia.