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The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority

Author : Kent J. Kille
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589014731
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority written by Kent J. Kille and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once described by Trygve Lie as the "most impossible job on earth," the position of UN Secretary-General is as frustratingly constrained as it is prestigious. The Secretary-General's ability to influence global affairs often depends on how the international community regards his moral authority. In relation to such moral authority, past office-holders have drawn on their own ethics and religious backgrounds—as diverse as Lutheranism, Catholicism, Buddhism, and Coptic Christianity—to guide the role that they played in addressing the UN's goals in the international arena, such as the maintenance of international peace and security and the promotion of human rights. In The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority, contributors provide case studies of all seven former secretaries-general, establishing a much-needed comparative survey of each office-holder's personal religious and moral values. From Trygve Lie's forbearance during the UN's turbulent formative years to the Nobel committee's awarding Kofi Annan and the United Nations the prize for peace in 2001, the case studies all follow the same format, first detailing the environmental and experiential factors that forged these men's ethical frameworks, then analyzing how their "inner code" engaged with the duties of office and the global events particular to their terms. Balanced and unbiased in its approach, this study provides valuable insight into how religious and moral leadership functions in the realm of international relations, and how the promotion of ethical values works to diffuse international tensions and improve the quality of human life around the world.

Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs

Author : United Nations. Secretary-General
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs written by United Nations. Secretary-General and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unvanquished

Author : Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812992040
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Unvanquished written by Boutros Boutros-Ghali and published by Random House. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years the United States has treated the United Nations as an extension of its own foreign policy, while other member states--especially smaller, less influential countries--have looked to the United Nations to represent their collective interests. This conflict escalated in the fall of 1996, when the United States unilaterally decided to deny Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali a second term. In this book Boutros-Ghali argues that U.S. policy toward the United Nations threatens the fragile fabric of the international organization. By selectively consulting the Security Council, the United States has frequently condemned the United Nations to the status of scapegoat in international affairs, notably during peacekeeping missions in Bosnia, Somalia, and Rwanda. Meanwhile, the United Nations's financial crisis persists as the United States fails to pay its bills while seeking to further increase its already considerable influence within the organization. In October 1995 President Clinton lavishly praised Boutros-Ghali for his "outstanding leadership," and thanked him for his "vision." Yet, a mere four months later, the Clinton administration decided that Boutros-Ghali would have to go. What happened in that short time to convince the United States that the secretary-general was now a liability? United States domestic electoral politics were decisive: While campaigning for the primaries, Bob Dole was scoring heavily by repeatedly ridiculing Boutros-Ghali. To neutralize Dole's challenge, Clinton denied the controversial secretary-general a second term, vetoing his reelection in the Security Council despite unanimous support from its other members. Boutros-Ghali reveals the dramatic conflict and the personalities involved and considers the future of the United Nations in light of American domination.

The United Nations' Top Job

Author : Lucia Mouat
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781484806197
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The United Nations' Top Job written by Lucia Mouat and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite limited legal power, the job of the United Nations secretary-general has evolved into that of an often-effective global leader and mediator. When the Security Council is blocked - and sometimes even when it isn't - the UN's top official has played a key role in resolving international disputes. This book looks at the varied ways that the eight secretaries-general -- from risk-takers to cautious conservatives - have used their position to pursue the common goal of a more peaceful world.

From Manager to Visionary

Author : K. Kille
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023060191X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book From Manager to Visionary written by K. Kille and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how the UN Secretary-General's leadership qualities affect how they address threats to peace and security. The personal traits of all seven Secretaries-General are measured and categorized into one of three leadership styles: managerial, strategic, and visionary.

In the Cause of Peace

Author : Trygve Lie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In the Cause of Peace written by Trygve Lie and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven years with the United Nations.

Preventive Diplomacy at the UN

Author : Bertrand G. Ramcharan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253000165
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Preventive Diplomacy at the UN by : Bertrand G. Ramcharan

Download or read book Preventive Diplomacy at the UN written by Bertrand G. Ramcharan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of preventive diplomacy has captivated the United Nations since it was first articulated by Secretary-General Dag HammarskjÃ¶ld a half-century ago. Successive generations of diplomats and statesmen have invested in the idea that diplomatic efforts might be able to head off international conflicts and disasters. Dramatic successes, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, contrast with dramatic failures, such as the inability of UN efforts to halt the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In this careful study, distinguished former UN civil servant Bertrand G. Ramcharan traces the history of the practice of preventive diplomacy by UN Secretaries-General, the Security Council, and other UN organizations, and assesses the record of preventive diplomacy and examines its prospects in an age of genocide and terrorism.

Pilgrimage for Peace

Author : Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312164867
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage for Peace written by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the former United Nations Secretary General's years of diplomacy, from 1981 to 1992, as he shared the world stage with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George Bush

Official Records

Author : Interim Commission of the World Health Organization
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Official Records written by Interim Commission of the World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The United Nations Secretariat and the Use of Force in a Unipolar World

Author : Ralph Zacklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139484222
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis The United Nations Secretariat and the Use of Force in a Unipolar World by : Ralph Zacklin

Download or read book The United Nations Secretariat and the Use of Force in a Unipolar World written by Ralph Zacklin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Cold War appeared to revitalise the Security Council and offered the prospect of restoring the United Nations to its central role in the maintenance of international peace and security. Between the Gulf War of 1990 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the UN Secretariat found itself in the midst of an unprecedented period of activity involving authorised and unauthorised actions leading to the use of force. In this 2010 book Ralph Zacklin examines the tensions that developed between the Secretariat and member states, particularly the five permanent members of the Security Council, concerning the process and content of the Council's actions in the Gulf War, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Iraq War as the Secretariat strove to give effect to the fundamental principles of the Charter.

Secretary or General?

Author : Simon Chesterman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139463268
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Secretary or General? written by Simon Chesterman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-29 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secretary-General of the United Nations is a unique figure in world politics. At once civil servant, the world's diplomat, lackey of the UN Security Council, and commander-in-chief of up to a hundred thousand peacekeepers, he or she depends on states for both the legitimacy and resources that enable the United Nations to function. The tension between these roles - of being secretary or general - has challenged every incumbent. This book brings together the insights of senior UN staff, diplomats and scholars to examine the normative and political factors that shape this unique office with particular emphasis on how it has evolved in response to changing circumstances such as globalization and the onset of the 'war on terror'. The difficulties experienced by each Secretary-General reflect the profound ambivalence of states towards entrusting their security, interests or resources to an intergovernmental body.

The UN Gang

Author : Pedro Sanjuan
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385516843
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The UN Gang written by Pedro Sanjuan and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day Pedro Sanjuan moved into his new office at the UN Secretariat in 1984, he had the foresight to unscrew his telephone receiver. Out fell a little packet of high-grade cocaine. When he confronted the undersecretary to the chief Soviet diplomat—really a KGB colonel and the top Russian spy—the agent laughed good-naturedly and congratulated him on passing the test. That was the beginning of Sanjuan’s long, peculiar odyssey into the looking-glass world of the United Nations Secretariat. Pedro Sanjuan had been appointed by then–Vice President George H. W. Bush to a high-ranking UN post. His real mission: to keep an eye on Soviet espionage activities. Over the years, the Russians had managed to install nearly four hundred KGB and GRU agents in strategic positions throughout the Secretariat, and had turned it into a massive spy facility, operating openly and with absolute impunity on American soil. But this, it turned out, was the least of the problem. Sanjuan soon discovered that incompetence, corruption, anti-Semitism, and outright criminality were rife throughout the UN Secretariat. Among the shady activities that he personally observed or documented were rigged bidding for major service contracts; drug transactions conducted in the UN’s parking garage; sale of shotguns and beryllium directly out of the UN building; ties to global organized crime figures; use of UN Information Centers and other agencies to disseminate anti-US and pro-PLO propaganda; systematic theft and abuse of UN facilities and budgets in East Africa; graft and corruption in Vienna; widespread sexual harrassment; use of the UN employee’s lounge to plan anti-Israel and anti-US activities by Muslim delegates; open celebration of 9/11 by said delegates in the halls of the UN; and inexplicable tolerance of all of the above on the part of the secretary general and the US government. Sanjuan’s cast of characters includes every secretary general from Kurt Waldheim to Kofi Annan, and a large number of bureaucratic rogues and scoundrels. Much of what he documents in The UN Gang is absurdly comical. But its seriousness should not be overlooked. Ultimately, Sanjuan argues, the weakness and corruption of the UN is our own responsibility. During the Cold War, the superpowers conspired to render it a useless forum for international pronouncements and posturing. Now, however, it has become the focal point of global resistance to American interests and policies. Will we continue to host an unholy convention of anti-Semitic, America-hating hypocrites? Or will we take steps to reform this once-proud institution and make it serve the ends of peace, justice, and international order? Only time will tell.

The Future of scientific advice to the United Nations

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 923100168X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Future of scientific advice to the United Nations written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Jussi M. Hanhimäki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190222727
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction written by Jussi M. Hanhimäki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After seven decades of existence has the UN become obsolete? Is it ripe for retirement? As Jussi Hanhimäki proves in the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, the answer is no. In the second decade of the twenty-first century the UN remains an indispensable organization that continues to save lives and improve the world as its founders hoped. Since its original publication in 2008, this 2nd edition includes more recent examples of the UN Security Council in action and peacekeeping efforts while exploring its most recent successes and failures. After a brief history of the United Nations and its predecessor, the League of Nations, Hanhimäki examines the UN's successes and failures as a guardian of international peace and security, as a promoter of human rights, as a protector of international law, and as an engineer of socio-economic development. This updated edition highlights what continues to make the UN a complicated organization today, and the ongoing challenges between its ambitions and capabilities. Hanhimäki also provides a clear account of the UN and its various arms and organizations (such as UNESCO and UNICEF), and offers a critical overview of the UN Security Council's involvement in recent crises in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya, and Syria, and how likely it is to meet its overall goals in the future. Regardless of its obstacles, the UN is likely to survive for the foreseeable future. That alone makes trying to understand the UN in all its manifold - magnificent and frustrating - complexity a worthy task. With this much-needed updated introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimäki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new challenges in a rapidly changing world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The PGA Handbook

Author : Nicole Ruder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615496603
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book The PGA Handbook written by Nicole Ruder and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties

Author : United Nations. Treaty Section
Publisher : New York : United Nations
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties written by United Nations. Treaty Section and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United Nations Correspondence Manual : a Guide to the Drafting, Processing, and Dispatch of Official United Nations Communications

Author : United Nations. Department of General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book United Nations Correspondence Manual : a Guide to the Drafting, Processing, and Dispatch of Official United Nations Communications written by United Nations. Department of General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: