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Deliver Us from Evil

Autor William Shawcross
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2001
The Cold War has been followed by a decade of regional and ethnic conflicts, massacres, and forced exiles. Should America assume the role of peacekeeper and chief humanitarian in a world of endless wars and human disasters? Eminent foreign correspondent William Shawcross has spent much of his career in war zones and has had unrivaled access to diplomats, peacekeepers, and global policymakers at the highest levels, including UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, for whom he has high regard. In "Deliver Us from Evil, " which has a new epilogue for the paperback edition, Shawcross takes us behind the lines with him to Cambodia, Bosnia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Rwanda, and Kosovo to show us how complex and costly Western interventions are and how naive are our hopes of peacemaking without bloodshed."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780743200288
ISBN-10: 0743200284
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 140 x 214 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster

Notă biografică

William Shawcross is the author of Sideshow, for which he won the George Polk Award for reporting and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Prize, as well as The Quality of Mercy, The Shah's Last Ride, and Murdoch. He lives in England. Deliver Us from Evil was one of six finalists for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain's most prestigious nonfiction award.

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Contents

Prologue: The World?s Texan

1 Another World War

2 From Phnom Penh to Sarajevo

3 Remaking Cambodia

4 Crossing the Mogadishu Line

5 Genocide in Our Time

6 Bosnian Endgame

7 Cultures of Impunity

8 Uniting Nations

9 Sunday in Baghdad

10 Into Africa

11 Political Prison

12 Iraq Again

13 Desert Encounters

14 From Kosovo to East Timor

Epilogue

Notes

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Descriere

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We have all seen press and television pictures of winding lines of refugees in Africa or on mountain passes in Europe and felt that 'something must be done'. In this urgent new book William Shawcross reveals what lies behind decisions by the 'international community' to intervene in a situation on humanitarian grounds, and what happens when the troops and aid agencies move in. It is a story of noble aspirations and often ignoble real politik. To tell the story of international peacekeeping in the last ten years Shawcross has gone where the warlords and the action are - Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Bosnia, Iraq, Kosovo, Somalia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and East Timor - and made full use of the privileged access he has had to the peacemakers, including global policy-makers, leading diplomats and key humanitarian aid officials. All of us would wish to be delivered from evil: Shawcross demonstrates what actually happens when our wish appears to be granted.

Recenzii

'Shawcross is quite simply one of the best reporters of his generation'
'Shawcross stands as the foremost journalist of his generation... this is an admirable book by an admirable man'
'Shawcross has written a firsthand and readable account of the dramas in which the UN has been involved recently'