Research Catalog

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

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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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

• United Nations
• Annan, Kofi A (Kofi Atta)
• World politics > 21st century

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