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The best intentions : Kofi Annan and the UN in the era of American world power
- Title
- The best intentions : Kofi Annan and the UN in the era of American world power / James Traub.
- Author
- Traub, James.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xviii, 442 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In The Best Intentions, Traub recounts the dramatically entwined history of Annan, the United Nations, and American foreign policy from 1992 to the present. In Annan he sees a conscientious idealist given too little credit for advancing causes such as humanitarian intervention, and an honest broker crushed between American conservatives and their Third World opponents - but also a UN careerist who has absorbed its stultifying culture and cannot, in the end, fully escape its limitations."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. A greater Magna Carta ... -- 2. A Gold Coast man -- 3. Peace, not justice -- 4. The American candidate -- 5. Kofi in the Lion's Den -- 6. Bosnia never again -- 7. The exquisite ironies of benevolent colonialism -- 8. Romancing cousin Jesse -- 9. Who's going to run Afghanistan? -- 10. Saddam's pyrrhic victory -- 11. "What did they die for?" -- 12. The Security Council fiddles while Darfur burns -- 13. The gentle king and his court -- 14. Two cheers - if that - for diplomacy -- 15. Oil-for-food : the witch hunt -- 16. Kofi briefly rescued by disaster -- 17. Nice guys get crushed -- 18. "They're laughing at us in Khartoum" -- 19. Oil-for-food : the nightmare -- 20. The black hole of Kinshasa -- 21. America's interest in UN reform is ... what, exactly? -- 22. John Bolton's nuclear strategy -- 23. Model UN.
- ISBN
- 0374182205 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006005906
- 9780374182205
- OCLC
- OCM64510183
- SCSB-5290398
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries