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The UN Secretary-General and moral authority : ethics and religion in international leadership / edited by Kent J. Kille.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations. Secretary-General.
- United Nations.
- International relations--Moral and ethical aspects.
- International relations.
- Political leadership--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Political leadership.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (381 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Once described by Trygve Lie as the most impossible job on earth, the position of UN Secretary-General is as frustratingly constrained as it is prestigious. The Secretary-General's ability to influence global affairs often depends on how the international community regards his moral authority. In relation to such moral authority, past office-holders have drawn on their own ethics and religious backgroundsùas diverse as Lutheranism, Catholicism, Buddhism, and Coptic Christianityùto guide the role that they played in addressing the UN's goals in the international arena, such as the maintenance o
- Contents:
- Moral authority and the UN secretary-general's ethical framework / Kent J. Kille
- Seeking balance : the secretary-general as normative negotiator / Dorothy V. Jones
- The house that Trygve Lie built : ethical challenges as the first UN secretary-general / James P. Muldoon, Jr.
- The UN Charter, the New Testament, and Psalms : the moral authority of Dag Hammarskjold / Alynna J. Lyon
- U Thant : Buddhism in action / A. Walter Dorn
- An ethical enigma : another look at Kurt Waldheim / Michael T. Kuchinsky
- Religion, ethics, and reality : a study of Javier Perez de Cuellar / Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan and David P. Forsythe
- A realist in the utopian city : Boutros Boutros-Ghali's ethical framework and its impact / Anthony F. Lang, Jr.
- Politics and values at the United Nations : Kofi Annan's balancing act / Courtney B. Smith.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58901-473-1
- 1-4356-2742-3
- OCLC:
- 652626241
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