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UN voices : the struggle for development and social justice / Thomas G. Weiss ... [and others].
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View onlineVan Pelt Library JZ4984.5 .U532 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- United Nations intellectual history project.
- United Nations intellectual history project
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations--History.
- United Nations.
- United Nations--Interviews.
- History.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 520 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and 71 other UN professionals speak about international cooperation and the ideas that have shaped the accomplishments of the UN.
- Contents:
- Growing up
- Formal education
- Serendipity and international careers
- From 1945 through the 1950s : hope held high
- The 1960s : widening development avenues
- The 1970s : creativity confronts geopolitics
- The 1980s : development frustrated
- The 1990s and the dawn of the twenty-first century : renaissance and reform?
- A revolutionary idea : the international civil service
- The power of ideas and people inside the UN
- Blending outside intellectual energies
- The legacy and future intellectual challenges.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-481) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253346428
- 0253217881
- OCLC:
- 57432173
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