The UN Charter: Five Pillars for Humankind

This book reintroduces the U.N. Charter to the global audience by describing the Charter as the most important secular

document in the world, for it is essentially the constitution of global governance to which all nations are bound, even if some honor it in the breach. The co-authors explain the core principles embedded in the Charter, which embodies codified customary international law for all nations. But the book also introduces pragmatic interpretations of key Charter provisions to mod...