Format:
XX, 520 S.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
0253346428
,
0253217881
,
9780253217882
Series Statement:
United Nations Intellectual History Project [6]
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Vereinte Nationen
;
Mitarbeiter
;
Geschichte 1930-2005
Author information:
Weiss, Thomas G. 1946-
