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100 1 _aBosco, David L.
245 1 0 _aFive to rule them all :
_bthe UN Security Council and the making of the modern world /
_cDavid L. Bosco.
260 _aOxford ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2009.
300 _ax, 310 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe council created -- Fits and starts (1946-1956) -- The court of world opinion (1957-1967) -- A hostile environment (1968-1985) -- The ice breaks (1986-1993) -- Growing pains (1994-2001) -- A more dangerous world (2001-2006).
520 _aFrom the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always provided a space for the five great powers to sit down together. Five to Rule Them All tells the inside story of this remarkable diplomatic creation. Drawing on extensive research, including dozens of interviews with serving and former ambassadors on the Council, the book chronicles political battles and personality clashes as it opens the closed doors of its meeting room. What emerges here is a revealing portrait of the most powerful diplomatic body in the world. When the five permanent members are united, David Bosco points out, the Council can wage war, impose blockades, redraw borders, unseat governments, and levy sanctions. There are almost no limits to its authority. Yet the Council exists in a world of realpolitik . Its members are, above all, powerful states with their own diverging interests. Time and again, the Council's performance has dashed the hope that its members would somehow work together to establish a more peaceful world. But if these lofty hopes have been unfulfilled, the Council has still served an invaluable purpose: to prevent conflict between the Great Powers. In this role, the Council has been an unheralded success. As Bosco reminds us, massacres in the Balkans and chaos in Iraq are human tragedies, but conflicts between the world's great powers in the nuclear age would be catastrophic. In this lively, fast-moving, and often humorous narrative, Bosco illuminates the role of the Security Council in the postwar world, making a compelling case for the enduring importance of the five who rule them all. -- Publisher Description.
610 2 0 _aUnited Nations.
_bSecurity Council
_xHistory.
610 2 7 _aUnited Nations.
_bSecurity Council.
_2fast
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648 7 _a1900-2099
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_916271
648 7 _a1945-1950
648 7 _a1950-2000
648 7 _a2000-2010
_2gtt
650 0 _aSecurity, International
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aSecurity, International
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 7 _aSecurity, International.
_2fast
650 1 7 _aSecurity council.
_2gtt
650 1 7 _aUnited nations.
_2gtt
650 1 7 _aPolitical decision-making.
_2gtt
650 1 7 _aDiplomatic relations.
_2gtt
650 7 _a89.72 international organizations.
_2nbc
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
655 7 _aHistory (form)
_2gtt
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=018007353&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
856 4 2 _zAdditional Information at Google Books
_uhttp://books.google.com/books?isbn=9780195328769
942 _2lcc
_cBOOK