03771cam a22006014a 4500 ocm64510183 OCoLC 20241106113138.0 ta 060217s2006 nyu b 001 0 eng 2006005906 0374182205 (alk. paper) 9780374182205 (alk. paper) 9780374182205 AU@ 000040104434 GEBAY 9856090 IG# 9780374182205 NLGGC 29245144X NZ1 10711821 YDXCP 2417782 (OCoLC)64510183 (OCoLC)779670947 (OCoLC)1022733899 eng GAFCSC LIBRARY pcc JZ4995 T67 Traub, James. The best intentions : Kofi Annan and the UN in the era of American world power / James Traub. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. xviii, 442 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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. Annan, Kofi A. (Kofi Atta) United Nations. 2000-2099 fast World politics 21st century. diplomacy. ilot peace. ilot armed conflict. ilot international cooperation. ilot role of USA. ilot United Nations. pplt Secretary-General. pplt has work: The best intentions (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGcwQR6ctfKR6jvVH8D6rq https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Sample text http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2006005906-s.html Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006005906-b.html Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006005906-d.html lcc BK JZ4995 T67 0 NO HOLDINGS IN GHUCC - 641 OTHER HOLDINGS 1898 1898 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-06 0 JZ4995 T67 2024-3019 2024-11-06 11:32:02 C.1 2024-11-06 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-06 0 JZ4995 T67 2024-3020 2024-11-06 11:32:02 C.2 2024-11-06 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-11-06 0 JZ4995 T67 2024-3021 2024-11-06 11:32:02 C.3 2024-11-06 BK