The references of the nations: Introducing a corpus of United Nations General Assembly resolutions since 1946 and their citation network
Rafael Mesquita,
Antonio Pires
Abstract:This article introduces a novel corpus containing all resolutions adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) from 1946 to 2019, the network of citations between them, and an online tool for exploring them. Resolutions adopted by the organization provide a valuable record of the evolution of multilateralism and political ideas on the global stage. Given that resolutions typically cite past ones, the resulting network of references offers a wealth of information on the UNGA’s most relevant themes over… Show more
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