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Deliver Us from Evil
Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict
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Artikel-Nr:
9780743200288
Veröffentl:
2001
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2001
Seiten:
460
Autor:
William Shawcross
Gewicht:
644 g
Format:
216x140x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
William Shawcross is the author of Sideshow, for which he won the George Polk Award for reporting and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Prize, as well as The Quality of Mercy, The Shah's Last Ride, and Murdoch. He lives in England. Deliver Us from Evil was one of six finalists for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain's most prestigious nonfiction award.
The Cold War has been followed by a decade of regional and ethnic conflicts, massacres, and forced exiles. Should America assume the role of peacekeeper and chief humanitarian in a world of endless wars and human disasters? Eminent foreign correspondent William Shawcross has spent much of his career in war zones and has had unrivaled access to diplomats, peacekeepers, and global policymakers at the highest levels, including UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, for whom he has high regard. In "Deliver Us from Evil, " which has a new epilogue for the paperback edition, Shawcross takes us behind the lines with him to Cambodia, Bosnia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Rwanda, and Kosovo to show us how complex and costly Western interventions are and how naive are our hopes of peacemaking without bloodshed.
ContentsPrologue: The World?s Texan1 Another World War 2 From Phnom Penh to Sarajevo 3 Remaking Cambodia 4 Crossing the Mogadishu Line 5 Genocide in Our Time 6 Bosnian Endgame 7 Cultures of Impunity 8 Uniting Nations 9 Sunday in Baghdad 10 Into Africa 11 Political Prison 12 Iraq Again 13 Desert Encounters 14 From Kosovo to East Timor Epilogue Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Index