Interventions : a life in war and peace /
Annan, Kofi A.
Interventions : a life in war and peace / Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh. - New York : Penguin Press, 2012. - xiv, 383 p, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Preface: The arc of intervention -- Prologue: Peacekeeper, peacemaker -- Independence: African beginnings -- Promises to keep: Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the trials of peacekeeping in a world of civil war -- Sovereignty and human rights: Kosovo, East Timor, Darfur, and the responsibility to protect -- A peoples' United Nations: reforming global governance and restoring the rule of law -- The fate of the continent: Africa's wars, Africa's peace -- Redefining human security: the global fight against poverty and the millennium development goals --The world's fault line: peacemaking in the Middle East -- The wars of 9/11: terror, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations at the brink -- Epilogue: Dreams of a realist.
With eloquence and immediacy, Annan writes about the highs and lows of his years at the United Nations: from shuttle-diplomacy during crises such as Kosovo, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine to the wrenching battles over the Iraq War to the creation of the landmark Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
9781846142970 1846142970
2012008173
Annan, Kofi A.
Since 1989
World politics--1989-
Statesmen--Ghana--Biography.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
WORLD POLITICS.
Ghana.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
Autobiography
D839.7.A56 / A3
Interventions : a life in war and peace / Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh. - New York : Penguin Press, 2012. - xiv, 383 p, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Preface: The arc of intervention -- Prologue: Peacekeeper, peacemaker -- Independence: African beginnings -- Promises to keep: Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the trials of peacekeeping in a world of civil war -- Sovereignty and human rights: Kosovo, East Timor, Darfur, and the responsibility to protect -- A peoples' United Nations: reforming global governance and restoring the rule of law -- The fate of the continent: Africa's wars, Africa's peace -- Redefining human security: the global fight against poverty and the millennium development goals --The world's fault line: peacemaking in the Middle East -- The wars of 9/11: terror, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations at the brink -- Epilogue: Dreams of a realist.
With eloquence and immediacy, Annan writes about the highs and lows of his years at the United Nations: from shuttle-diplomacy during crises such as Kosovo, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine to the wrenching battles over the Iraq War to the creation of the landmark Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
9781846142970 1846142970
2012008173
Annan, Kofi A.
Since 1989
World politics--1989-
Statesmen--Ghana--Biography.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
WORLD POLITICS.
Ghana.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
Autobiography
D839.7.A56 / A3