"Complicity with Evil"
The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide
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2006
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-11171-2 (ISBN)
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-11171-2 (ISBN)
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From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to those of Darfur, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This book examines in detail the crucial role of the Secretariat, its relationship with the Security Council, and the failure of UN officials themselves to confront genocide.
From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to those of Darfur today, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This is evinced, LeBor maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi, the most senior UN official in the field during the Yugoslav wars, in which he refused to authorize air strikes against the Serbs for fear they would 'weaken' Milosevic. More recently, in 2003, urgent reports from UN officials in the Sudan detailing atrocities from Darfur were ignored for a year because they were politically inconvenient. This book is the first to examine in detail the crucial role of the Secretariat, its relationship with the Security Council, and the failure of UN officials themselves to confront genocide. LeBor argues the UN must return to its founding principles, take a moral stand and set the agenda of the Security Council instead of merely following the lead of the great powers.
Based on dozens of first-hand interviews with UN officials, current and former, and such international statesmen and women as Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Douglas Hurd, and David Owen, this book will be much discussed as a new Secretary General is appointed.
From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to those of Darfur today, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This is evinced, LeBor maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi, the most senior UN official in the field during the Yugoslav wars, in which he refused to authorize air strikes against the Serbs for fear they would 'weaken' Milosevic. More recently, in 2003, urgent reports from UN officials in the Sudan detailing atrocities from Darfur were ignored for a year because they were politically inconvenient. This book is the first to examine in detail the crucial role of the Secretariat, its relationship with the Security Council, and the failure of UN officials themselves to confront genocide. LeBor argues the UN must return to its founding principles, take a moral stand and set the agenda of the Security Council instead of merely following the lead of the great powers.
Based on dozens of first-hand interviews with UN officials, current and former, and such international statesmen and women as Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Douglas Hurd, and David Owen, this book will be much discussed as a new Secretary General is appointed.
Adam LeBor reported on the Yugoslav wars for the London Times and The Independent. He is the Central Europe Correspondent for The Times, covering the former Yugoslavia and the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He is the author of five previous books.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.11.2006 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 544 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-300-11171-1 / 0300111711 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-300-11171-2 / 9780300111712 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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