Interventions : a life in war and peace / Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh.
By: Annan, Kofi A. (Kofi Atta).
Contributor(s): Mousavizadeh, Nader.
New York : Penguin Press, ©2012Description: xiv, 383 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780143123958.Subject(s): Annan, Kofi A. (Kofi Atta) | United Nations -- Biography | World politics -- 1989- | Statesmen -- Ghana -- BiographyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | D839.7.A56 A3 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000011985 |
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Includes index.
Preface: The arc of intervention -- Prologue Peacekeeper, peacemaker -- Indepenence: 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 responsibilty to protect -- A peoples/ United Nations: reforming global goverance 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, Afganistan, 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.