Stanley Meisler

Kofi Annan (eBook, ePUB)

A Man of Peace in a World of War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this thoughtful, balanced biography, former Los Angeles Times foreign and diplomatic correspondent Stanley Meisler traces Kofi Annan's unconventional rise from optimistic student to striving personnel and budget specialist in the United Nations bureaucracy to full-time manager of the world's crises. The book presents a unique portrait of this widely admired leader, with Annan's own view of events tempered and augmented by those of his allies and opponents, defenders and detractors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470441664
• Artikelnr.: 49996627

Autorenporträt

Stanley Meisler is the author of United Nations: The First Fifty Years, the only authoritative history of the U.N. He has known Kofi Annan for many years, having covered him during most of Annan's career as a public figure. For twenty years, Meisler covered much of the world for the Los Angeles Times, returning to the United States to cover the U.N. in New York and the State Department in Washington. Meisler still contributes articles to the paper's Book Review, Sunday Opinion, and Art sections. He has also contributed to Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Reader's Digest, and other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.Introduction.1. Ghana and America.2. Through the UN System.3. The Grand Illusion of the Persian Gulf.4. In the Foosteps of Raloh Bunche.5. Peacekeeping.6. The Stain of Rwanda.7. Charade Over Bosnia.8. Supplanting Boutros-Ghali.9. The New Secretary-General.10. Intervention: Kosovo and East Timor.11. The Nobel Prize.12. Interlude in Vienna and Africa.13. Facing the American Juggernaut.14. Relevance and Melancolia.15. Oil for Food and Kojo.16. The Year of Summing Up.Sources.Chronology.The Nobel Prize Lecture.Index.

Rezensionen

"Meisler has done an admirable job in portraying a complex and shrewd man...a fascinating read". (Books Quarterly, March 2007) "Meisler is a distinguished foreign affairs correspondent who has know Annan for many years and interviewed him for this book." (Diplomat, March 2007) "...anyone genuinely interested in the affairs of this important world body, ultimate guarantor of peace and stability, should read it." (The Irish Times Weekend Supplement, Saturday 21st April 2007)