Unvanquished: A U.S.- U.N. Saga - Rilegato

Boutros-Ghali, Boutros

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ISBN 10: 0375500502 ISBN 13: 9780375500503

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1999

Riassunto

The former secretary-general of the United Nations offers a firsthand study of the stormy relationship between the U.N. and the United States and discusses the role of the U.N.; its past, present, and future; and the potential for resolving its conflict with the U.S. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

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"One of the many pleasures of the book is the finely drawn portraits of the diverse characters who participated in the peace talks, including Menachem Begin and Moshe Dayan on the Israeli side, and, most importantly, Sadat himself....This fine book ends with a moving account of Boutros-Ghali learning of Sadat's assassination."
--Foreign Affairs

"Boutros's memoir enriches the record of this very important era in the Middle East. It is, like Boutros himself, lucid, intelligent, self-deprecating and, sometimes, even funny. But we still want to read about Boutros's years at the U.N. We can only hope that he will not make us wait much longer."
--Milton Viorst, The Washington Post Book World

"This is an elegant and forceful narrative by a prolific scholar and diplomat par excellence."
--Robert Hazan, Rocky Mountain News

"An important, impassioned but impartial map to the Sisyphean effort, the bold initiatives and the painstakingly slow process of breaking age-old taboos and paving the way for the fragile, and now threatened, peace between Israel and its neighbors."
--Abbas Milani, San Francisco Chronicle

L'autore:

Boutros Boutros-Ghali was secretary-general of the United Nations from 1991 to 1996. As Egypt's minister of state for foreign affairs, he was a chief participant at the meetings that culminated in the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel. Dr. Boutros-Ghali received his doctorate from the Univer-sity of Paris. A distinguished academic, active in many international associations, he has written a number of books on Egyptian and international politics and has contributed to many journals. He has been a member of the Faculty of Political Science at Cairo University and of the Parliament of Egypt. He now serves as secretary general of the International Organization of the Francophonie, an association of fifty-two countries sharing a political, social, and cultural solidarity around the French language. His previous book, Egypt

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375500502
• ISBN 13: 9780375500503
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352