TY - BOOK AU - Annan,Kofi A. AU - Mousavizadeh,Nader TI - Interventions: a life in war and peace SN - 9781846142970 AV - D839.7.A56 A3 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Press KW - Annan, Kofi A. KW - World politics KW - 1989- KW - Statesmen KW - Ghana KW - Biography KW - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS KW - unbist KW - WORLD POLITICS KW - fast KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political KW - BISAC KW - Autobiography N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -