Format:
Online-Ressource (xx, 520 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253217881
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0253346428
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 gives
Note:
Includes index
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Cover; Contents; Foreword ; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One. Individuals Make a Difference; 1 Growing Up; 2 Formal Education; 3 Serendipity and International Careers; Part Two. Hope, Creativity, and Frustration; 4 From 1945 through the 1950s: Hope Held High; 5 The 1960s: Widening Development Avenues; 6 The 1970s: Creativity Confronts Geopolitics; 7 The 1980s: Development Frustrated; 8 The 1990s and the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century:; Part Three. The World Organization, Ideas, andTwenty-First-Century Challenges
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9 A Revolutionary Idea: The International Civil Service10 The Power of Ideas and People Inside the UN; 11 Blending Outside Intellectual Energies; 12 The Legacy and Future Intellectual Challenges; Appendix 1. Biographical Notes of Persons Interviewed; Appendix 2. A Methodological Note: Making This Oral History; Notes; Index of Persons Interviewed; Index of Subjects; About the Authors; About the United Nations Intellectual History Project
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253346421
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe UN Voices : The Struggle for Development and Social Justice
Language:
English
