Deliver Us from Evil
Autor William Shawcrossen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2001
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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
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.
Cuprins
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.
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'
'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'