The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World PowerFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 30 окт. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 464 A man who had won the Nobel Peace Prize, who was widely counted one of the greatest UN Secretary Generals, was nearly hounded from office by scandal. Indeed, both Annan and the institution he incarnates were so deeply shaken after the Bush Administration went to war in Iraq in the face of opposition from the Security Council that critics, and even some friends, began asking whether this sixty-year-old experiment in global policing has outlived its usefulness. Do its failures arise from its own structure and culture, or from a clash with an American administration determined to go its own way in defiance of world opinion? |
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... asked Kofi Annan if he would agree to cooperate for a book about the institution and about his own place in it. I explained that I did not want to write a biography of him, but rather a book about the era that began after the Gulf War ...
... asked to go off the record, never bridled at even the most impertinent question, never pleaded ignorance. He would, it's true, sometimes sheer off into platitudes when I probed into a particularly painful area—when I asked, for example ...
... asked President Eisenhower to intervene. Ike instead brought the issue to the UN. The United States and the Soviet Union had begun vying for influence among the emerging nations of Africa; both wanted to see the Belgians removed. An ...
... asked the UNEF mission to voluntarily withdraw. This had been the UN's first peacekeeping mission, and a very visible symbol of its commitment to preventing conflict. But Thant, insisting that peacekeepers served only so long as both ...
... asked if he was worried that the mission might miscarry, he said, “Don't ever speak to me negatively when I'm about to negotiate. We'll make it—and I don't want to hear that we may not make it.” When Annan arrived in Baghdad, he found ...
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CHAPTER FOUR The American Candidate | |
CHAPTER FIVE Kofi in the Lions | |
CHAPTER SIX Bosnia Never Again | |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Exquisite Ironies | |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Gentle King and | |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Two CheersIf Thatfor | |
The Witch Hunt | |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Kofi Briefly Rescued | |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Nice Guys Get Crushed | |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Theyre Laughing at Us | |
The Nightmare | |
CHAPTER TWENTY The Black Hole of Kinshasa | |
CHAPTER EIGHT Romancing Cousin Jesse | |
CHAPTER NINE Whos Going to Run Afghanistan? | |
CHAPTER TEN Saddams Pyrrhic Victory | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN What Did They Die For? | |
CHAPTER TWELVE The Security Council Fiddles | |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE Americas Interest in | |
Strategy | |
Epilogue | |
ALSO BY JAMES TRAUB | |
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