The adventure of peace
Subtitle: Dag Hammarskjöld and the future of the UN
By: [editors: Sten Ask, Anna Mark-Jungkvist].
Contributors: Ask, Sten.; Mark-Jungkvist, Anna.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Hammarskjöld, Dag, -- 1905-1961.; United Nations -- Biography.; World politics -- 1945-1955.; World politics -- 1955-1965.; Statesmen -- Sweden -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Dag Hammarskjöld and the future of the UN
Notes: First published Stockholm, Atlantis, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 406-413) and index.
Table of contents: value: Foreword / Göran Persson; value: Introduction / Kofi A. Anman; value: pt. 1. Dag Hammarskjöld. The Secretary-General - why Dag Hammarskjöld? / Sir Brian Urquhart; value: The road to the UN - the emergence of the international civil servant / Hans Landberg; value: International negotiator: mission Beijing / Qu Xing; value: Nikita Khrushchev and Dag Hammarskjöld / Sergei Khrushchev; value: The Swedish government and Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld / Sverker Åström; value: Nature and culture: two necessities of life / Per Lind and Bengt Thelin; value: Dag Hammarskjöld and Markings / KG Hammar; value: pt. 2. What can we learn from Dag Hammarskjöld? The quest for a political philosophy of world organisation / Manuel Fröhlich; value: The role of the Secretary-General / Shashi Tharoor; value: An independent international civil service / James O.C. Jonah; value: The peacekeeper / Jean-Marie Guéhenno; value: International leadership and charisma / Dorothy V. Jones; value: pt. 3. Challenges facing the UN. Public opinion on a dynamic world organisation / Ronald Inglehart and Thorleif Pettersson; value: Poverty and inequality - challenges in the era of globalisation / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr; value: Sustainable development - a concept for peace-building? / Margot Wallström; value: No peace without justice / Elizabeth Odio-Benito; value: Gender equality and the UN / Angela E.V. King; value: Preventive diplomacy / Jan Eliasson and Peter Wallensteen; value: The responsibility to protect: rethinking humanitarian intervention / Gareth Evans; value: Shooting the elephant: the UN and the dilemma of nation-building / Nadezhda Mihaylova and Ivan Krastev; value: The UN and the fight against terrorism / Jane Boulden; value: Weapons of mass destruction / Hans Blix; value: The role of the UN in an age of US hegemony / Nancy E. Soderberg; value: The future. Dag Hammarskjöld's assumptions and the future of the UN / Lord Skidelsky; value: With Dag Hammarskjöld to guide us: a vision of peace and security / Malin Herwig.