This book's purpose is to give students an in-depth understanding of South American countries and cultures. The book approaches this understanding through examinations of statistics, maps, articles and editorials, case studies, and text of legislation. The book provides students with background for each situation, giving them a good understanding…

Issues discussed are (1) American Involvement with Southern Africa, (2) White Minority Rule, (3) Liberation Movements, (4) Role of International and Nongovernmental Organizations, and (5) the Future. (JB)

No great diminishment of nationalism is predicted; rather, interaction among the four dimentions of nationalism (traditional, striving, protective, and imperialistic nationalism) will sustain the nation-state and the interactions of those states in the international system of states. (Author/JB)

Describes current activities of the United States government to prepare for the 1979 World Administrative Radio Conference. Objective is to ensure that necessary changes in International Telecommunication Union regulations on allocation and use of the radio spectrum are made in light of modern U.S. economic, social, and technical needs. (JMF)

Presents the Soviet view of the negotiations leading to the UNESCO Mass Media Declaration and of the American reaction to the Declaration. (JMF)

The Secretary-General of the United Nations discusses the purposes, principles, fundamental values, and organizational structure of that body. Suggests that educators and students must have a basic understanding of what the United Nations does in order to broaden the public support for this world organization. (KO)

In Sweden, as in many other countries, interest and instruction concerning the conditions and prospects of peace have grown against the background of current world events. Increasing pupils' knowledge and awareness of the survival problems in the world are the keys to peace education. Most items of peace education are more or less included in the…

This collection of three environmental education newsletters includes activities and issues of international environmental education for 1976. The first issue contains discussion of the Belgrade Charter adopted at the International Environmental Education Workshop at Belgrade, October 1975. The second issue deals with regional plans, projects, and…

This collection of environmental education newsletters includes two issues published in 1979. The first issue discusses the African Regional Workshop in Environmental Education, held in Senegal in December 1978. Also included are: (1) a discussion of environmental education in the USSR; (2) a discussion of the state of the environment, 1978; and…

The direct broadcast satellite is the latest in a series of developments in international communication techniques that have radically altered the role of information in the global society. Though now technically feasible, the direct broadcast satellite may never be widely employed because it challenges traditional international political concepts…

The study discussed in this book approaches the task of understanding the interrelated effects of innovations on society by concentrating on one technological innovation--satellite communications--as it relates to three basic processes: the relation of innovations in communications technology to innovations in policy and the policy-making process,…

This report on the activities of UNESCO in 1971 is divided into four main parts: (1) Relations with Member States and International Organizations, (2) Execution of the Programme, (3) Administration, and (4) Documents and Publications. Part I includes the following chapters: (1) Relations with Member States, (2) Relations with the United Nations,…

International development is broadly discussed in terms of various economic organizations, especially the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). It is suggested that developing nations need nonformal, adult education programs which are linked to the realities of production, employment, and social development. (LH)

In this era of rapid communications, increasing interdependence in trade and monetary relations, large foreign investment flows, and looming uncertainties about pollution and resource scarcities, the traditional methods of the generalist diplomat are needed more urgently than ever. Several factors that today impede the diplomatic dialogue are…

Highlighting the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, this six-lesson unit of study addresses the history of the United Nations; the concepts of peace and conflict; and the topics of peacekeeping, development, relief, and the environment. One hundred handouts, suitable for transparency reproduction or classroom distribution, feature the United…