Interventions a life in war and peace
Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2001, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke to a world still reeling from the terrorist attacks of September 11. "Ladies and Gentlemen," proclaimed Annan, "we have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, af...
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New York, NY
The Penguin Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- 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.