United Nations : the first fifty years /
Meisler, Stanley.
United Nations : the first fifty years / Stanley Meisler. - New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1995. - xiv, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-370) and index.
1. The Beginnings: From Dumbarton Oaks to San Francisco -- 2. Trygve Lie and Iran: Off to a Bad Start -- 3. Ralph Bunche and the Infant State of Israel -- 4. The Korean War: No More Manchurias -- 5. Dag Hammarskjold -- 6. Suez: The Empires Strike Out -- 7. The Battles of Katanga and the Crash of Hammarskjold -- 8. Adlai Stevenson and the Cuban Missile Crisis: The U.N. as Theater -- 9. U Thant and the Quest for Peace in Vietnam -- 10. The Six-Day War -- 11. Kurt Waldheim: The Big Lie -- 12. Zionism Is Racism -- 13. UNESCO: Defenses of Peace in the Minds of Men -- 14. Javier Perez de Cuellar and the End of the Cold War -- 15. The Persian Gulf War -- 16. Boutros Boutros-Ghali -- 17. The Somalia Debacle -- 18. Alibi: The U.N. in Bosnia -- Epilogue: The Fiftieth Anniversary -- Appendix I. A U.N. Chronology -- Appendix II. U.N. Peacekeeping Missions (as of April 1995) -- Appendix III. The U.N. System.
0871136163 9780871136169
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United Nations--History.
United Nations--Anniversaries, etc.
JX 1977 / M515un 1995
341.23
United Nations : the first fifty years / Stanley Meisler. - New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1995. - xiv, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-370) and index.
1. The Beginnings: From Dumbarton Oaks to San Francisco -- 2. Trygve Lie and Iran: Off to a Bad Start -- 3. Ralph Bunche and the Infant State of Israel -- 4. The Korean War: No More Manchurias -- 5. Dag Hammarskjold -- 6. Suez: The Empires Strike Out -- 7. The Battles of Katanga and the Crash of Hammarskjold -- 8. Adlai Stevenson and the Cuban Missile Crisis: The U.N. as Theater -- 9. U Thant and the Quest for Peace in Vietnam -- 10. The Six-Day War -- 11. Kurt Waldheim: The Big Lie -- 12. Zionism Is Racism -- 13. UNESCO: Defenses of Peace in the Minds of Men -- 14. Javier Perez de Cuellar and the End of the Cold War -- 15. The Persian Gulf War -- 16. Boutros Boutros-Ghali -- 17. The Somalia Debacle -- 18. Alibi: The U.N. in Bosnia -- Epilogue: The Fiftieth Anniversary -- Appendix I. A U.N. Chronology -- Appendix II. U.N. Peacekeeping Missions (as of April 1995) -- Appendix III. The U.N. System.
0871136163 9780871136169
95030563
United Nations--History.
United Nations--Anniversaries, etc.
JX 1977 / M515un 1995
341.23