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Global Solutions Pittsburgh publishes a quarterly newsletter. Inside each issue is event coverage, event previews, editorials on key issues, and current action alerts. The newsletters not only serve to showcase our public programming, but also offer insight and serve as a resource for more information on critical issues. Copies of the newsletter are free and are also available online. To receive a copy of our current newsletter in the mail, please email or call (412) 471-7852. Download a recent copies here.

Chapter Library

Our extensive library was begun with generous contributions from our founding members, we now maintain an extensive library. There, you will find resources on various topics from environmental protection and the principles of world federalism to nuclear disarmament and human rights protection. In addition, we have several videos that may be of interest not only to members but to local teachers. Members and friends are welcome to borrow books, journal articles, periodicals and videos.

 

Books

Auth, Janice, ed. To Beijing and Beyond: Pittsburgh and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women.

Bales, Kevin. Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader.

Baratte, Joseph Preston, ed. Strengthening the United Nations: A Bibliography on UN Reform and World Federalism.

Batstone, David. Not For Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade – and How We Can Fight It.

Bauer, John. Make the UN Effective for Peace.

Bellamy, Alex J., Paul Williams, and Stuart Griffin. Understanding Peacekeeping.

Bennett, A Leroy. International Organizations: Principles and Issues.

Bird, Kai and Lawrence Lifschultz. Hiroshima’s Shadow.

Blackman, Ann. Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright.

Bob, Clifford.  The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism.

Bowe, John. Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.

Boyle, Francis Anthony. World Politics and International Law.

Childers, Erskine with Brian Urquhart. Renewing the UN System.

Claude, Inis L. Jr. Swords into Plowshares: The Problems and Progress of International Organizations.

Cleveland, Harlan, Hazel Henderson, and Inge Kaul, eds. The United Nations: Policy and Financing Alternatives: Innovative Proposals by Visionary Leaders.

Cusimano, Maryann K. Beyond Sovereignty: Issues for a Global Agenda.

Damours, Stephen. America the Almighty.

Drakulich, Angela, ed.  Global Agenda: Issues Before the 60th General Assembly of the United Nations.

Doyle, Michael W. and Nicholas Sambanis. United Nations Peace Operations: Making War and Building Peace.

Eade, Deborah. Capacity Building: An Approach to People-Centered Development.

Edwards, Michael and John Gaventa, eds.  Global Citizen Action.

French, Hilary. Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization.

Gati, Toby Trister, ed. The US, the UN, and the Management of Global Change.

Glendon, Mary Ann. A World Made New: Elenor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Michael Goodhart. Democracy As Human Rights.

Gorbachev, Mikhail. Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World.

Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It.

Hollick, Anne L. US Foreign Policy and the Law of the Sea.

Holzner, Burkart and Leslie Holzner. Transparency in Global Change

Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.

----------. Political Order in Changing Societies.

Ishay, Micheline R. The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era.

Johanses, Robert C., ed. A United Nations Emergency Peace Service: To Prevent Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.

Kaplan, Lawrence S. NATO and the United States.

Kennan, George F. Memoirs 1925-1950.

Kennedy, Paul. The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations.

Knoke, William. Bold New World.

Maclaurin, John. The United Nations and Power Politics.

Mitchell, Gordon R. Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy.

Moore, John Alphin Jr. and Jerry Pubantz. The New United Nations: International Organizations in the Twenty-First Century.

Muravchik, Joshua.  The Future of the United Nations: Understanding the Past to Chart a Way Forward.

Nardin, Terry. Law, Morality, and the Relations of States.

Osborne, David and Ted Gaebler. Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector. 

Power, Samantha. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.

Puchala, Donald J., Katie Verlin Laatikainen, and Roger A. Coate.  United Nations Politics: International Organization in a Divided World.

Rovere, Richard H. Senator Joe McCarthy.

Sardar,  Ziauddin and Merryl Wyn Davies. Why Do People Hate America?

Schlesinger, Stephen C.  Act of Creation, The Founding of the United Nations: A Story of Superpowers, Secret Agents, Wartime Allies and Enemies and Their Quest for a Peaceful World.

Shaw, M.N. International Law.

Simon, Paul. PS: The Autobiography of Paul Simon.

Sohn, Louis B. and Kristen Gustafson. The Law of the Sea in a Nutshell.

Soroos, Maarvin S. Beyond Sovereignty: The Challenge of Global Policy.

Stanley, C. Maxwell. Managing Global Problems.

Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and Its Discontents.

Tetalman, Jerry and Byron Belitsos. One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision for Enforceable Global Law.

United Nations. The Blue Helmets: A Review of UN Peace Keeping.

---------. Everyone’s United Nations: A Handbook on the Work of the United Nations.

Weiss, Thomas G., David P. Forsythe, and Roger A. Coate.  The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Fourth Edition.

Winslow, Ann, ed. Women, Politics, and the United Nations.

Yergin, Daniel and Martin Hillenbrand. Global Insecurity: A Strategy for Energy and Economic Renewal.

DVDs

Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. 2006. Oxfam America.

 Life and Debt. 2001. New Yorker Video.

 Commanding New Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The Agony of Reform. 2002. WGBH.

 Commanding New Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The Battle of Ideas. 2002. WGBH.

 Commanding New Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The New Rules of the Game. 2002. WGBH.

 Confronting Today’s Global Threats: Security Check. 2005. The Stanley Foundation.

 Darfur Diaries: Message from Home. 2005. Cinema Libre.

 The Agronomist. 2005. Think Film.

 Dreams Die Hard: Survivors of Slavery in America Tell Their Stories. 2005. Free the Slaves and Crisis House.

 An Inconvenient Truth. 2006. Paramount.

 Ghosts of Rwanda. 2004. PBS.

 Hotel Rwanda. 2004. MGM.

 Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm. 2003. PBS Home Video. VHS

 “A Tale of Modern Slavery (Niger).” 2005. Nightline 06/02/05.

 The PeaceKeepers. 2005. National Film Board of Canada.

 Global Warming: The Signs and the Science. 2005. PBS.

 World in the Balance. 2004. PBS.

 Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. 2001. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

 Under Fire: The United Nations’ Battle for Relevance. 2004. The Stanley Foundation.

 What Future for the United Nations #2. The Center for War/Peace Studies.

 Dying to Leave: The Dark Business of Human Trafficking. 2004. Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

 World in the Balance: The Population Paradox. 2004. WGBH Educational Foundation.

 

VHS

Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm. 2003. PBS Home Video.