Interventions [Texte imprim�e] : a life in war and peace /

Annan, Kofi Atta, (1938- ...).

Interventions a life in war and peace / [Texte imprim�e] : Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh. - New York : Penguin Books, 2013, cop. 2013. - 1 vol. (XIV-383 p.-[8] p. de pl.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm

Includes index.

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.

9780141046501 0141046503


Annan, Kofi A.


Since 1989


World politics--1989-
Statesmen--Ghana--Biography.

D839.7. / A7
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