Bertrand G. Ramcharan is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies and Chancellor of the University of Guyana. He was a member of the UN Secretariat for 32 years and served as Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights. He is the author or editor of more than 25 books on international law, human rights, and the United Nations.

Contents
Series Editors' Foreword by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss
Foreword by Leon Gordenker
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Secretaries-General on Preventive Diplomacy
Introduction
1. Preventive Diplomacy in the Concert of Europe, the Hague Peace Conferences, the League of Nations, and the UN Charter
2. UN Policies and Doctrines of Preventive Diplomacy
3. The Practice of Preventive Diplomacy by the Security Council
4. The Practice of Preventive Diplomacy by the Secretaries-General
5. Preventive Diplomacy during the Cuban Missile Crisis
6. The Practice of Preventive Diplomacy by Representatives of the Secretary-General and UN Subregional Offices
7. The Preventive Role of UN Peacekeepers and Observers
8. Preventive Diplomacy in the Economic, Social, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Fields
9. Preventive Diplomacy in an Age of Genocide, Terrorism, and Nontraditional Threats to Security
10. Cooperative Preventive Diplomacy with Regional and Subregional Organizations
Conclusion: Some Thoughts for the Future
Notes
Index
About the Author
About the United Nations Intellectual History Project