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 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 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.
9781594204203 1594204209 9781846142970 1846142970 9780143123958 0143123955
2012008173
Annan, Kofi A.
United Nations--Biography.
World politics--1989-
Statesmen--Ghana--Biography.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
WORLD POLITICS.
Autobiography
D839.7 / A7
Interventions : a life in war and peace / Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh. - New York : Penguin Press, 2012. - xiv, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 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.
9781594204203 1594204209 9781846142970 1846142970 9780143123958 0143123955
2012008173
Annan, Kofi A.
United Nations--Biography.
World politics--1989-
Statesmen--Ghana--Biography.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
WORLD POLITICS.
Autobiography
D839.7 / A7