LEADER 03504nam 22006374a 450 001 9910451362803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-73451-9 010 $a9786611734510 010 $a0-300-13514-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300135145 035 $a(CKB)1000000000473611 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049850 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000127343 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11138625 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000127343 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10051715 035 $a(PQKB)10424275 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420308 035 $a(DE-B1597)485343 035 $a(OCoLC)1024002295 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300135145 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420308 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210191 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173451 035 $a(OCoLC)923592034 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000473611 100 $a20060525d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a"Complicity with evil"$b[electronic resource] $ethe United Nations in the age of modern genocide /$fAdam LeBor 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (xxii, 326 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-11171-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-306) and index. 327 $aA safe area -- Master drafters -- Countdown -- The fall -- Recently disturbed earth -- Silence in the Secretariat -- A Rwandan reprise -- Genocide, or maybe not -- A will and a way -- A meager reckoning -- Command responsibility. 330 $aFrom the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to those of Darfur today, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This is evinced, author and journalist Adam LeBor maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi, the most senior UN official in the field during the Yugoslav wars, in which he refused to authorize air strikes against the Serbs for fear they would "weaken" Milosevic. More recently, in 2003, urgent reports from UN officials in the Sudan detailing atrocities from Darfur were ignored for a year because they were politically inconvenient.This book is the first to examine in detail the crucial role of the Secretariat, its relationship with the Security Council, and the failure of UN officials themselves to confront genocide. LeBor argues the UN must return to its founding principles, take a moral stand and set the agenda of the Security Council instead of merely following the lead of the great powers. LeBor draws on dozens of firsthand interviews with UN officials, current and former, and such international diplomats as Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Douglas Hurd, and David Owen.This book will set the terms for discussion when UN Secretary General Kofi Annan steps down to make room for a new head of the world body, and political observers assess Annan's legacy and look to the future of the world organization. 517 3 $aUnited Nations in the age of modern genocide 606 $aGenocide 606 $aSecurity, International 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGenocide. 615 0$aSecurity, International. 676 $a341.23 700 $aLeBor$b Adam$01036163 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451362803321 996 $a"Complicity with evil"$92456328 997 $aUNINA