The best intentions : Kofi Annan and the UN in the era of American world power
"A man who had won the Nobel Peace Prize, widely counted one of the greatest UN Secretary Generals, was nearly hounded from office by scandal. Indeed, both Kofi Annan and the institution he incarnates were so deeply shaken after the Bush Administration went to war in Iraq in the face of UN opposition that critics, and even some friends, began asking whether this sixty-year-old experiment in global policing has outlived its usefulness. Journalist Traub recounts the dramatically entwined history of Annan and the UN from 1992 to 2006. In Annan he sees a conscientious idealist given too little credit for advancing causes like humanitarian intervention, and an honest broker crushed between American conservatives and Third World opponents--but also a UN careerist who has absorbed that culture and can not, in the end, escape its limitations.--From publisher description."--Source other than the Library of Congress
xxii, 505 pages ; 21 cm
9780312426743, 0312426747
153578922
A greater Magna Carta
A gold coast man
Peace, not justice
The American candidate
Kofi in the lion's den
Bosnia never again
The exquisite ironies of benevolent colonialism
Romancing cousin Jesse
Who's going to run Afghanistan?
Saddam's pyrrhic victory
"What did they die for?"
The security council fiddles while Darfur burns
The gentle king and his court
Two cheers-if-that-for diplomacy
Oil-for-food: the witch hunt
Kofi briefly rescued by disaster
Nice guys get crushed
"They're laughing at us in Khartoum"
Oil-for-food: the nightmare
The black hole of Kinshasa
America's interest in UN reform is ... what exactly?
John Bolton's nuclear strategy
Model UN