Overview
A case study of the effectiveness of nongovernmental organizations in international and national arenas, Ralph B. Levering describes and analyzes the work of three U.S.-based NGOs, known collectively as the Neptune Group. He discusses the group's successful efforts during the Third United Nations Conference on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III1973-1982). He details the group's effectiveness supporting negotiations in Washington and addressing the news media and public opinipn. One of the most important international conferences of modem times, UNCLOS III thoroughly revised and updated the law of the sea. By organizing seminars and conducting research on difficult issues facing the conference, facilitating the flow of information among delegates, and publishing a newspaper, Neptune, the Neptune Group became the leading NGO at the conference. Engagingly written, this history and memoir will interest students, scholars, officials, environmentalists, religious and world-order activists, and anyone interested in efforts to help create a more just and peaceful world order.
Full Product Details
Author: Ralph B. Levering ,
Miriam L. Levering
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.482kg
ISBN: 9780815627944
ISBN 10: 0815627947
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 31 May 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Selected essays, poems, and addresses by the contemporary Iranian poet and Nobel Prize nominee. Behbahani is as much a political as a literary figure, and her criticisms of the Iranian government under the Ayatollahs ( An Interrupted Speech ) have established her as both a leader of the Iranian feminist movement and a perpetual thorn in the side of the ruling party. Her verse is ironic and evocative, largely about the dividing frontier between the individual and the social, between private obligations and civic duty. Reacting to and provoked by the outside world, she asserts, I reveal the world within. Safa's afterword is revealing and helpful in its appreciation of his subject. (Kirkus Reviews)
Author Information
Ralph B. Levering has written six books, including The Public and American Foreign Policy, 1918-1978 and The Cold War: A Post Cold War History. Until her death in 1991, Miriam L. Levering, was a long-time leader in the Neptune Group and other world-order organizations. She worked closely on law of the sea with environmental and church groups, including the Sierra Club and Methodist and Catholic organizations.
