China's UN Voting Records and Policy Analysis, 1979

Originally published in 1979, this text-based analysis examines China's role in the United Nations. The work by Samuel Kim draws on primary sources including policy pronouncements, voting records, and over a hundred personal interviews with UN delegates. It probes China's strategy of world order as manifested through its behavior in the UN.

Use Cases

• Analyzing China's foreign policy positions based on UN voting records mentioned in the description
• Studying historical narratives of global order based on policy pronouncements and interviews
• Training NLP models on diplomatic and political science texts based on the book's content

Strengths

• Draws on over a hundred personal interviews with UN delegates and international civil servants
• Utilizes a wide range of previously untapped primary sources, including China's voting record

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is from a 1979 publication; temporal coverage is historical and not current
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

Samuel Kim (author), Princeton University Press (publisher)

Collection Method

Analysis of primary sources including policy documents, voting records, and personal interviews.

Time Range

Historical analysis up to 1979.

Geography

China, United Nations (global)