Past Imperfect, Future UNcertain: The United Nations at Fifty

Thakur, Ramesh

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-03-04

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333716236

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26336-3

Dimensions: 216cm x138cm

Pages: 275