Best Intentions Kofi Annan and the un in the Era of American World Power

Name: Best Intentions Kofi Annan and the un in the Era of American World Power
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ISBN: 9780312426743

ISBN-10: 0312426747

ISBN-13: 9780312426743

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Authors: James Traub

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Updated for the Paperback Edition nbsp; For most of his career as secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan was the embodiment of the institution's best elements: A Nobel Prize winner, gracious, even-handed, and brilliant, he was considered one of the best ever to hold the position. By the end, after genocide in Darfur, the Oil For Food scandal and war in Iraq, many felt the UN had failed its constituents too many times to forgive, and Annan had nearly been forced from office. nbsp; Did the U.N.'s failures arise from its own structure and culture, or from a clash with an American administration determined to go its own way in defiance of world opinion? nbsp; InThe Best Intentions,…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

JAMES TRAUBis a contributing writer forThe New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York City.



Preface






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


Epilogue


Afterword


A Note on Sources


Acknowledgments


Index