UN voices the struggle for development and social justice /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Weiss, Thomas George.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
Series:United Nations intellectual history project
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10132006
Table of Contents:
  • Growing up
  • Formal education
  • Serendipity and international careers
  • From 1945 through the 1950s : hope held high
  • The 1960s : widening development avenues
  • The 1970s : creativity confronts geopolitics
  • The 1980s : development frustrated
  • The 1990s and the dawn of the twenty-first century : renaissance and reform?
  • A revolutionary idea : the international civil service
  • The power of ideas and people inside the UN
  • Blending outside intellectual energies
  • The legacy and future intellectual challenges.