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100 1 $aTraub, James.
245 14 $aThe best intentions :$bKofi Annan and the UN in the era of American world power /$cJames Traub.
250 $a1st Picador ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPicador,$c2007.
300 $axxii, 505 pages ;$c21 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA 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.
520 $a"A man who had won the Nobel Peace Prize, widely counted one of the greatest UN Secretary Generals, was nearly hounded from office by scandal. Indeed, both Kofi Annan and the institution he incarnates were so deeply shaken after the Bush Administration went to war in Iraq in the face of UN opposition that critics, and even some friends, began asking whether this sixty-year-old experiment in global policing has outlived its usefulness. Journalist Traub recounts the dramatically entwined history of Annan and the UN from 1992 to 2006. In Annan he sees a conscientious idealist given too little credit for advancing causes like humanitarian intervention, and an honest broker crushed between American conservatives and Third World opponents--but also a UN careerist who has absorbed that culture and can not, in the end, escape its limitations.--From publisher description."--Source other than the Library of Congress.
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