The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World PowerA man who had won the Nobel Peace Prize, who was widely counted one of the greatest UN Secretary Generals, was nearly hounded from office by scandal. Indeed, both Annan and the institution he incarnates were so deeply shaken after the Bush Administration went to war in Iraq in the face of opposition from the Security Council that critics, and even some friends, began asking whether this sixty-year-old experiment in global policing has outlived its usefulness. Do its failures arise from its own structure and culture, or from a clash with an American administration determined to go its own way in defiance of world opinion? |
Contents
CHAPTER TWO A Gold Coast | |
CHAPTER THREE Peace Not Justice | |
CHAPTER FOUR The American Candidate | |
CHAPTER FIVE Kofi in the Lions | |
CHAPTER SIX Bosnia Never Again | |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Exquisite Ironies | |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Gentle King and | |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Two CheersIf Thatfor | |
The Witch Hunt | |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Kofi Briefly Rescued | |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Nice Guys Get Crushed | |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Theyre Laughing at Us | |
The Nightmare | |
CHAPTER TWENTY The Black Hole of Kinshasa | |
CHAPTER EIGHT Romancing Cousin Jesse | |
CHAPTER NINE Whos Going to Run Afghanistan? | |
CHAPTER TEN Saddams Pyrrhic Victory | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN What Did They Die For? | |
CHAPTER TWELVE The Security Council Fiddles | |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE Americas Interest in | |
Strategy | |
Epilogue | |
ALSO BY JAMES TRAUB | |
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