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In the late 1980s United States participation in the United Nations system was in a deep crisis. Continued US support for the UN system was highly problematic. At the same time shifts in Soviet policy, especially visible in late 1987, appeared to create new and unprecedented opportunities for strengthening the UN system.
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See USSR, Mission to the United Nations, ‘Article by Mikhail Gorbachev’, Press Release No. 119, 17 September 1987.
Parts of this section draw on the author’s prepared testimony before the Subcommittees on Human Rights and International Organisations and on International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US Congress. See USA, House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittees and Human Rights and International Organisations and on International Operations, US Policy in the United Nations (Washington, DC; GPO, 1986), pp. 132–51.
Arthur H. Vandenberg, The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1952), p. 173.
See Arkady N. Shevchenko, Breaking with Moscow (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985).
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Jacobson, H.K. (1989). The United Nations in Crisis. In: Forsythe, D.P. (eds) The United Nations in the World Political Economy. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20196-9_14
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