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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... foreign minister, Trygve Lie, who was then swiftly approved. “There was no consideration of who might be best for the job,” writes Brian Urquhart, one of the UN's most illustrious civil servants as well as one of its leading historians ...
... foreign forces withdraw from the area and instructing the secretary-general to draw up a plan to establish “an emergency international United Nations force to secure and supervise the cessation of hostilities.” Nobody really knew what ...
... all costs. The Israelis neither forgot nor forgave the abrupt abandonment. “What is the use of a fire brigade which vanishes from the scene as soon as the first smoke and flames appear?” Israel's foreign minister, Abba Eban, said in the.
... foreign minister, Abba Eban, said in the General Assembly. In early June, the Israelis launched the devastating preemptive strike on their Arab neighbors that provoked the Six Days' War, permanently altering the map of the Middle East ...
... foreign minister of South Africa, later called the Namibia operation “probably the most important event in southern Africa in the last forty years.” In the midst of this period, Saddam Hussein did the Security Council a favor of ...
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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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