Interventions : a life in war and peace / Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh.
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TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2012. Description: xiv, 383 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9781594204203; 9781846142970Subject(s): Annan, Kofi A. (Kofi Atta) | United Nations -- Biography | World politics -- 1989- | Statesmen -- Ghana -- BiographyLOC classification: D839.7.A56 | An7 2012| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes index.
Preface: The arc of intervention -- Prologue: Peacekeeper, peacemaker -- Independence: African beginnings -- Promises to keep: Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the trials of peacekeeping in a world of civil war -- Sovereignty and human rights: Kosovo, East Timor, Darfur, and the responsibility to protect -- A peoples/ United Nations: reforming global governance and restoring the rule of law -- The fate of the continent: Africa's wars, Africa's peace -- Redefining human security: the global fight against poverty and the millennium development goals --The world's fault line: peacemaking in the Middle East -- The wars of 9/11: terror, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations at the brink -- Epilogue: Dreams of a realist.
With eloquence and immediacy, Annan writes about the highs and lows of his years at the United Nations: from shuttle-diplomacy during crises such as Kosovo, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine to the wrenching battles over the Iraq War to the creation of the landmark Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
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