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United Nations
Biographies
Author
Sheila Nelson
has written a number of educational books for young people.
She lives in Rochester, NewYork,with her husband and children.
Series Advisor
Bruce Russett
is Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science at Yale
University and editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution. He has taught or
researched at Columbia, Harvard, M.I.T., Michigan, and North Carolina in the
United States, and educational institutions in Belgium, Britain, Israel, Japan,
and the Netherlands. He has been president of the International Studies
Association and the Peace Science Society, and holds an honorary doctorate
fromUppsalaUniversity in Sweden.Hewas principal adviser to theU.S.Catholic
Bishops for their pastoral letter on nuclear deterrence in 1985,and codirected
the staff for the 1995 Ford Foundation report,
The United Nations in Its Second
Half Century
.He has served as editor of the
Journal of Conflict Resolution
since
1973. The twenty-five books he has published include
The Once and Future
Security Council
(1997),
Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and
International Organizations
(2001),
World Politics: The Menu for Choice
(8th
edition 2006),and
Purpose and Policy in the Global Community
(2006).