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United Nations Under Boutr 6
Stephen F. Burgess
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Description for United Nations Under Boutr 6
Hardback. By describing Boutros Boutros-Ghali's successes and failures as Secretary-General in the United Nations, this text predicts the UN's role in the new world order and forecasts the challenges it may face in the coming years. Series: Partners for Peace. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; GTJ; JPSN1; JWLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
This volume concerns the United Nations during the transformative period of the 1990s in which the UN and other countries used the UN to accomplish a wide variety of demanding and complex tasks. Of the seven secretaries-general, Boutros-Ghali was the most determined to guide the UN toward greater autonomy and power. Initially, his efforts bore fruit, especially as he received support from the U.S. in a number of different operations. This support, however, ended after the October 1993 killings of 18 U.S. Army Rangers in a UN operation in Somalia and subsequent wide-spread recrimination in the U.S. against the UN. ... Read more
This volume concerns the United Nations during the transformative period of the 1990s in which the UN and other countries used the UN to accomplish a wide variety of demanding and complex tasks. Of the seven secretaries-general, Boutros-Ghali was the most determined to guide the UN toward greater autonomy and power. Initially, his efforts bore fruit, especially as he received support from the U.S. in a number of different operations. This support, however, ended after the October 1993 killings of 18 U.S. Army Rangers in a UN operation in Somalia and subsequent wide-spread recrimination in the U.S. against the UN. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
Partners for Peace
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810837034
SKU
V9780810837034
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About Stephen F. Burgess
Stephen F. Burgess is Assistant Professor of International Security Studies and an Associate of the U.S. Air Force Counterproliferation Center, U.S. Air War College.
Reviews for United Nations Under Boutr 6
Dr. Burgess's work is an excellent study of the UN and Boutros-Ghali... This is a book the undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professionals, must read.
George Kaloudis, Rivier College, PhD, Rivier College
George Kaloudis, Rivier College, PhD, Rivier College