United Nations: The First Fifty YearsIn a lucid, colorful account, Stanley Meisler brings alive the personalities and events of the first fifty years of the United Nations. It is a story filled with action and heartbreak. Stanley Meisler tells the story of the United Nations, its promise and its problems, with clarity and authority. He brings to life the history of the world organization and a half-century of America's hopes for and frustration with world government . . . . You will learn why China is almost by chance one of five permanent members on the Security Council, how the Council's veto power was adopted at Stalin's demand, why Adlai Stevenson left his post as U.S. ambassador in lonely despair, how Kurt Waldheim hid his past to become Secretary General, how the Bush administration maneuvered the United Nations into supporting Operation Desert Storm, and much, much more. This is the definitive account of the United Nations for a general audience, told by a master. -- Jim Hoagland, chief foreign correspondent, The Washington Post |
Contents
The Beginnings From Dumbarton Oaks to San Francisco | 1 |
Trygve Lie and Iran Off to a Bad Start | 21 |
Ralph Bunche and the Infant State of Israel | 36 |
The Korean War No More Manchurias | 55 |
Dag Hammarskjold | 75 |
Suez The Empires Strike Out | 94 |
The Battles of Katanga and the Crash of Hammarskjold | 115 |
Adlai Stevenson and the Cuban Missile Crisis The UN as Theater | 135 |
Javier Perez de Cuellar and the End of the Cold War | 239 |
The Persian Gulf War | 257 |
Boutros BoutrosGhali | 278 |
The Somalia Debacle | 294 |
Alibi The UN in Bosnia | 312 |
The Fiftieth Anniversary | 330 |
Sources | 341 |
A UN Chronology | 357 |
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