Five to Rule Them All The un Security Council and the Making of the Modern World

Name: Five to Rule Them All The un Security Council and the Making of the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780195328769

ISBN-10: 0195328760

ISBN-13: 9780195328769

Edition: 2009

Authors: David L. Bosco

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From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always provided a space for the five great powers to sit down together. Five to Rule Them All tells the inside story of this remarkable diplomatic creation. Drawing on extensive research, including dozens of interviews with serving and former ambassadors on the Council, the book chronicles political battles and personality clashes as it opens the closed doors of its meeting room. What emerges here is a revealing portrait of the most powerful diplomatic…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/10/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English