UID:
almafu_9959227084702883
Format:
1 online resource (545 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786612072406
,
1-282-07240-4
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0-253-11058-0
Series Statement:
United Nations intellectual history project
Content:
""The authors have cajoled, intrigued, or reassured their 73 'voices' into telling a fascinating story of the UN and its institutions, which is also a story of 73 individual lives, of women and men... with their own complicated histories of emigration and education, family relationships and professional choices, hopes and successes."" -- from the Foreword by Emma Rothschild""Far from being a distant bureaucracy, the UN is composed of individuals who are reshaped by vital experiences. UN Voices
Note:
Includes index.
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Growing up -- Formal education -- Serendipity and international careers -- From 1945 through the 1950s : hope held high -- The 1960s : widening development avenues -- The 1970s : creativity confronts geopolitics -- The 1980s : development frustrated -- The 1990s and the dawn of the twenty-first century : renaissance and reform? -- A revolutionary idea : the international civil service -- The power of ideas and people inside the UN -- Blending outside intellectual energies -- The legacy and future intellectual challenges.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-21788-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-34642-8
Language:
English
