The United Nations and peace : the evolution of an organizational concept

Contents: The United Nations concept of peace from a historical perspective - The UN concept of peace in the light of UN practice - Innovative, multiperspective approach to the UN, integrating a sociolinguistic, normative and functional view of the UN within an "institutional-pragmatic" approach - Concepts as institutional frames - Interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from international law scholarship, linguistic analysis, conceptual history and policy analysis.