Title: United Nations : a history /
Authors: Meisler, Stanley.
Publisher: Grove Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Vereinte Nationen.; United Nations History.
Abstract: With four new chapters, this updated edition of United Nations: A History completes the story of the UN's last sixty-five years, its successes and turbulent past. United Nations: A History begins with the creation of the organization in 1945. Although its aim was to prevent war, many conflicts have arisen, ranging from the Korean War to the Six-Day War, to genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda. Stanley Meisler's in-depth research examines the crises and many key political leaders. In this second edition, Meisler brings his popular history up to date with accounts of the power struggles of the last fifteen years, specifically spotlighting the terms of secretaries-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan, and Ban Ki-moon. This is an important, riveting, and impartial guide through the past and recent events of the sixty-five-year history of the United Nations. - Publisher.
Contents: The beginnings : from Dumbarton Oaks to San Francisco -- Trygve lie and Iran : off to a bad start -- Ralph Bunche and the infant state of Israel -- The Korean War : no more Manchurias -- Dag Hammarskjold -- Suez : the empires strike out -- The battles of Katanga and the crash of Hammarskjold -- Adlai Stevenson and the Cuban Missile Crisis : the U.N. as theater -- U Thant and the quest for peace in Vietnam -- The Six-Day War -- Kurt Waldheim : the big lie -- Zionism Is racism -- UNESCO : defenses of peace in the minds of men -- Javier Perez de Cuellar and the end of the Cold War -- The Persian Gulf War -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali -- The Somalia debacle -- Alibi : the U.N. in Bosnia -- Horrors in Rwanda -- Kofi Annan : the acidental Secretary-General -- America defies the U.N and invades Iraq -- Ban Ki-moon, the slippery eel -- Epilogue: The Arab Spring -- A UN chronology -- Appendix: U.N. peacekeeping missions.