Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11. Edited
by Jane Boulden and Thomas G. Weiss. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2004. 248p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
One year after the attacks of 9/11, a workshop was held in New
York City to explore two questions: How does the United Nations respond
to terrorism, and how has the international environment been changed by
terrorism? This well-edited selection of chapters, first presented at
the workshop sponsored by CUNY's Ralphe Bunche Institute and the
University of Oxford's Centre for International Studies, offers a
thorough examination of the UN post-9/11, and provides an inventory
of the questions now facing scholars of international conflict and
international organization.