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Buy this book on-line GOULDING,MARRACK: : PEACEMONGER.[Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.JOHN MURRAY,2002. ISBN 071955540X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten warm dedication,SIGNED+dated: 'To Mike Dunball,with all good wishes, Marrack Goulding,8 November 2002.' to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour+b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean, publisher's original,plain red cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,viii-xipp+3-378pp [paginated] includes contents+maps lists/tables,author preface+ introduction,18 chapters,appendices (5),an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and 8 b/w maps.
Marrack Goulding joined the United Nations as the Under-Secretary-General in charge of Peacekeeping Operations in 1986, at a time of intense optimism.With the thawing of the Cold War,it seemed that at last the UN could concentrate on the real issues affecting the world: preventing and resolving conflict,and fighting poverty, disease,injustice and crime.At first there were spectacular successes - the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan,the Iran-Iraq ceasefire,the liberation of Kuwait,and peace settlements in Namibia, Angola, El Salvador, Cambodia and Mozambique.The UN,it seemed,could do no wrong.But by 1993 the bubble had burst, and the UN's credibility had been seriously undermined by its failure to halt the bloodshed in Angola,Bosnia and Somalia.Meantime,spending on peacekeeping had risen more than tenfold,from $260 million to $2.7 billion.In 1993 an exhausted Goulding was transferred by Secretary Boutros-Ghali to head the UN's political department. In this fascinating account of seven years of peacekeeping, Marrack Goulding gives us a unique insider's view of what went wrong and also of what the UN achieved during this critical period,of what it was like to be on the front line of UN peacekeeping activities,and also to work behind the scenes with two very different Secreataries-General,Javier Perez de Cuellar and Boutros Boutros-Ghali.In this thought-provoking account of an organization in crisis he pulls no punches,but readily admits that 'many of the mistakes were my mistakes - I was as intoxicated as everyone else'.
Sir Marrack Goulding spent 26 years in the British Diplomatic Service.His first post was language student in Lebanon and his last Ambassador in Angola.In between, he worked mainly on the Middle East but also in the Cabinet Office 'Think Tank' where he was responsible for an iconoclastic review of Britain's overseas representation.In 1986 he transferred to the UN Secretariat as head of peacekeeping.In 1997 he became Warden of St Anthony's College,Oxford.
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