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UN voices : the struggle for development and social justice / Thomas G. Weiss ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- United Nations intellectual history project (Series)
- United Nations intellectual history project
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations--History.
- United Nations.
- United Nations--Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (545 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""The authors have cajoled, intrigued, or reassured their 73 'voices' into telling a fascinating story of the UN and its institutions, which is also a story of 73 individual lives, of women and men... with their own complicated histories of emigration and education, family relationships and professional choices, hopes and successes."" -- from the Foreword by Emma Rothschild""Far from being a distant bureaucracy, the UN is composed of individuals who are reshaped by vital experiences. UN Voices
- 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 index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612072406
- 1-282-07240-4
- 0-253-11058-0
- OCLC:
- 475993089
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