solitary war
Subtitle: a diplomat's chronicle of the Iraq war and its lessons
By: Heraldo Muñoz ; foreword by Kofi Annan.
Series: Speaker's corner; Speaker's corner books
Publisher: Fulcrum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Golden, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781555916763
Subjects: United Nations -- Iraq; Iraq War, 2003- -- Diplomatic history; Iraq War, 2003- -- Participation, European; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-; Europe -- Politics and government -- 21st century; Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-
Notes: "A Fulcrum paperback original"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-264).
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Kofi Annan; title: Introduction; title: Early warnings; title: A telling phone call from Condi; title: A war with multilateral support; title: One, two, three Iraqs : the costs of the unilateralist doctrine; title: War games in the United Nations : a tale of missed opportunities; title: Resolution to act; title: A tug of war; title: The Blair-Lagos last-ditch effort; title: The final diplomatic bets; title: High noon in Iraq : diplomacy fails; title: Unilateralism in retreat : the hard task of winning the peace in Iraq; title: Multilateralism under fire; title: The war deepens : the UN is a target; title: A turn toward tactical multilateralism; title: Why multilateralism matters : the United Nations enables the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq and the 2005 elections; title: A sense of loss of direction and moral defeat; title: Negotiating the establishment of the Iraqi interim government; title: The end of occupation?; title: The 2005 elections and the Nouri al-Maliki government; title: Worlds apart : the alienation of allies; title: Chile : the distant neighbor; title: Mexico : "so far from God, so close to the United States"; title: The transatlantic divide with the "old Europe"; title: Less-than-willing allies and the failed evidence to go to war; title: Conclusions : the U.S war backtrack and the future of multilateralism; title: The costs of a war without friends; title: A changing attitude toward the United Nations; title: Why the United States should care about multilateralism; title: Beyond Iraq : to lead or to impose.