BOOKS
- Irwin Arieff  and Deborah Baldwin
- • January 15, 2022
Nearly five years after the murder of two United Nations investigators in a rough and lonely patch of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, their lives and their deaths have become a metaphor for the extraordinary challenges faced by…
- Categories: Africa, BOOKS, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 7, 2021
Noeleen Heyzer not only saved Unifem, the precursor of UN Women, from financial collapse but also turned the small grant-making agency into a powerful policy tool for boldly addressing the crushing economic and social disadvantages that silence women worldwide….
- Categories: Asia, BOOKS, Gender Violence
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 5, 2021
For half a century, Gus Speth has been at the forefront of the global environmental movement as an adviser on environment policy to two United States presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and then administrator of the United Nations…
- Categories: BOOKS, Climate Change
- Irwin Arieff
- • March 2, 2021
Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a memoir due out in June, is done concealing his anger over Donald Trump’s bad behavior on the international stage. The UN has always tried hard to maintain strong ties with the…
- Categories: BOOKS, Nuclear Disarmament, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Lucia Mouat
- • July 18, 2020
In her enjoyable memoir, “The Education of an Idealist,” Samantha Power shifts easily between her family life and her challenging career adventures. She draws on her Irish roots in storytelling — coming to the United States from Dublin at…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Irwin Arieff
- • June 29, 2020
I never thought I would ever feel sorry for Nikki Haley. But John Bolton, in his infamous new book, “The Room Where It Happened,” is so unrelenting in his snide comments about Haley, President Trump’s first ambassador to the…
- Categories: BOOKS, US Foreign Relations
- Helmut Volger
- • February 1, 2020
Everyone familiar with the United Nations knows that its relationship with its key member, the United States, has been and still is subject to far-reaching changes. The periods when the US administration and the Congress make use of the…
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • December 28, 2019
“A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History,” unfolds like the cinematic story of Disney’s 1992 hit “The Mighty Ducks,” except in Seth Berkman’s debut book this team of hockey players —South Korean, North Korean,…
- Irwin Arieff
- • November 19, 2019
“With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace,” is framed as a look back at Nikki Haley’s two years as United States ambassador to the United Nations. It’s also not unreasonable to assume she’s just ticking off…
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • November 2, 2019
Americans should know more about the life of William vanden Heuvel, a former United States envoy to the United Nations office in Geneva in the late 1970s. His career of social and political activism has touched on the people…
- Categories: BOOKS, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Aaron Stanley
- • August 24, 2019
When driving through the tight, winding rural roads of Northern Ireland (or is it the north of Ireland?), you pass through quaint, sleepy little towns. Most barely have a High Street. But if you didn’t know any better, you’d…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 16, 2019
Margaret Busby is a pioneer in the literary world. In 1967, she became the first black woman to start a publishing company in Britain. The small company, Allison & Busby, was co-founded with Clive Allison, when both were recent…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Ellen Chesler
- • October 13, 2018
From 1975 to 1995, the United Nations sponsored four international conferences on women that produced wildly optimistic blueprints for concrete gains. Some people dismiss these forums and the programs for action that they generated as lacking strategies to carry…
- Categories: BOOKS, Development, Gender Violence
- Irwin Arieff
- • June 16, 2018
As one of the world’s oldest areas of human settlement, Syria has seen it all: glory and irrelevance, conflict and calm, dynamism and stagnation, tyranny and tolerance. While it has gone through long periods of international obscurity — pretty…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Helmut Volger
- • June 2, 2018
To provide readers who want information about the United Nations that is intelligent and concise yet comprehensive is a challenging task for every author: he or she must outline a puzzling system of principal organs, specialized agencies, programs, funds,…
- Categories: BOOKS, UN Agencies
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