Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain - Thakur, Ramesh
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A collection of assessments of how the UN has performed in the past and how it can meet the challenge of a balance between the desirable and the possible. The commentators are drawn from a mix of ministerial, military, diplomatic and academic backgrounds.
The end of the Cold War and the forceful response to Iraq's aggression created expectations that the UN would change from a marginal into a centre player in world affairs. These hopes were seemingly dashed in Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia. Has the United Nations abdicated its moral duty as the custodian of our hopes for a better world? In…mehr

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A collection of assessments of how the UN has performed in the past and how it can meet the challenge of a balance between the desirable and the possible. The commentators are drawn from a mix of ministerial, military, diplomatic and academic backgrounds.
The end of the Cold War and the forceful response to Iraq's aggression created expectations that the UN would change from a marginal into a centre player in world affairs. These hopes were seemingly dashed in Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia. Has the United Nations abdicated its moral duty as the custodian of our hopes for a better world? In this book, foreign ministers, generals, ambassadors, and scholars provide sober assessments of how the United Nations can meet the challenge of a balance between the desirable and the possible.
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RAMESH THAKUR is Head of the Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at the Australian National University in Canberra. Born and raised in India, he received his formal education in India and Canada, and has held full-time academic appointments in Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. He is the author or editor of numerous books on Asian politics and international relations and has published widely in both academic journals and quality newspapers.