Few today remember the exhilaration with which people across the globe, including Americans, greeted the signing of the San Francisco Charter and the founding of the United Nations in 1945. There had been two massive military convulsions in just a quarter-century; many millions were dead; a whole continent was in ruins. And so there was a pervasive sense that, after the failu (...)
August 17, 2007
Books
Flawed but Indispensable
The Parliament of ManThe Past, Present, and Future of the United NationsPaul KennedyRandom House, $26.95, 384 pp.The Best IntentionsKofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World PowerJames TraubFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 464 pp.
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