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HammarskjÖld, Dag - däg hämˈərshōldˌ, Swed. hämˈärshöldˈ, 1905–61, Swedish statesman, secretary-general of the United Nations (1953–61). He attended the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm (Ph.D., 1934). The son of a former prime minister of Sweden, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, he entered

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Dag Hammarskjold: Custodian of the Brushfire Peace » Read Now
by Joseph P. Lash. 304 pgs.

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...DAG HAMMARSKJOLD JOSEPH P. LASH DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Custodian of the Brushfire Peace DOUBLEDAY COMPANY...Custodian of the Brushfire Peace 1 2. Dag Hammarskjold--Who Is He? 7...
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Sheathing the Sword: The UN Secretary-General and the Prevention of International Conflict » Read Now
by Thomas E. Boudreau. 191 pgs.

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Forty years after its mandated inception, the practical role of the Secretary-General of the United Nations is still not clearly defined. Based on an in-depth understanding of the pertinent articles of the United Nations Charter as well as the experiences of the five Secretaries-General of the...
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Forty years after its mandated inception, the practical role of the Secretary-General of the United Nations is still not clearly defined. Based on an in-depth understanding of the pertinent articles of the United Nations Charter as well as the experiences of the five Secretaries-General of the United Nations, this study addresses the need to clarify the position of Secretary-General by examining and evaluating the diplomatic resources currently available to the office in the critical area of crisis prevention. Convinced that the prevention of international conflict will be well-served by increasing the Secretary-General's direct involvement, Thomas E. Boudreau builds upon recent reforms and proposes a global system of conflict identification which will enable the office to fulfill its intended role.
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Nation against Nation: What Happened to the U.N. Dream and What the U.S. Can Do about It (Chap. 7 "The Secretary-General Invents Himself" and Chap. 8 "Filling the Void: Action by the Secretary-General in the Face of Inaction by Everyone Else") » Read Now
by Thomas M. Franck. 342 pgs.

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The American public has become increasingly disenchanted with the United Nations. Some responsible sources in this country are already advocating withdrawal from U.N. agencies and perhaps even from the entire system. This book, by the former Director of Research at UNITAR, the U.N.'s "think tank,"...
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The American public has become increasingly disenchanted with the United Nations. Some responsible sources in this country are already advocating withdrawal from U.N. agencies and perhaps even from the entire system. This book, by the former Director of Research at UNITAR, the U.N.'s "think tank," examines the record of the U.N. during its first 40 years in the clear light of American national interest. Franck offers a balance sheet which confirms that the U.N. during its first 40 years in the clear light of American national interest. Franck offers a balance sheet which confirms that the U.N. often operates in a way that undermines respect for individual human rights and hampers conflict resolution. At the same time, he does not shrink from showing that the fault frequently lies with the United States itself. He shows how the U.S. helped form the U.N. with unrealistic views of what it could do, how for a decade or more the U.S. was able to use the U.N. essentially as a tool and adjunct to its foreign policy, and how Washington failed to predict and plan for the inevitable shift in power at the U.N. led by the newly emergent Third World nations. Franck warns of the American penchant for treating international relations as a series of unrelated encounters instead of an ongoing, institutionalized system in which the tactics and outcome of one crisis inevitably affect the way the next context is played out. Taday the U.S. and its allies are often the butt of antagonisms that the U.N. system seems to encourage and exaggerate. Nevertheless Franck shows that even now the U.S. position in the U.N. is far from hopeless, and he provides a blueprint for a strategy of "playing hard ball," which is far more realistic than abandoning the world organization.
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Crisis in the Congo: A United Nations Force in Action ("The Role of Hammarskjold and Dayal" begins on p. 56) » Read Now
by Ernest W. Lefever. 215 pgs.

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Congo Disaster (Discussion of Dag Hammarskjold begins on p. 124) » Read Now
by Colin Legum. 178 pgs.

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The United Nations Emergency Force (Includes discussion of Dag Hammarskjold in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Gabriella Rosner. 296 pgs.

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Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s: Causes, Solutions, and U.S. Interests (Chap. 3 "The Genesis of Peacekeeping: The UNEF Model") » Read Now
by Frederick H. Fleitz Jr. 225 pgs.

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Peacekeeping is a useful tool to manage international conflict and maintain truces, but it will only work in a narrow range of circumstances. "Peacekeepers" can order punitive airstrikes, depose elected leaders, destroy infrastructure, and enforce peace accords not drafted by the warring parties...
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Peacekeeping is a useful tool to manage international conflict and maintain truces, but it will only work in a narrow range of circumstances. "Peacekeepers" can order punitive airstrikes, depose elected leaders, destroy infrastructure, and enforce peace accords not drafted by the warring parties. They have overstepped their bounds, and "peacekeeping" is now often a euphemism for any multilateral military action. A CIA analyst who worked closely with Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administration officials on UN issues, Fleitz examines how peacekeeping works, the rash of peacekeeping failures since 1993, and whether peacekeeping can still play a role in U.S. foreign policy. It is a unique realist assessment destined to become the guide to this very important subject for U.S. policymakers, politicians, and students of international relations.
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Peace-Keeping by U.N. Forces: From Suez to the Congo (Includes discussion of Dag Hammarskjold in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Arthur Lee Burns, Nina Heathcote. 256 pgs.

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Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs (Chap. 8 "The World Outlook of Dag Hammarskjold") » Read Now
by Cathal J. Nolan. 222 pgs.

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This revised edition of Ethics and Statecraft has been reorganized to better situate chapters that play to one another thematically, on peacemaking, the ethics and statecraft of war, and the statecraft of major international reform, and two new chapters, on Theodore Roosevelt and the Vietnam War...
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This revised edition of Ethics and Statecraft has been reorganized to better situate chapters that play to one another thematically, on peacemaking, the ethics and statecraft of war, and the statecraft of major international reform, and two new chapters, on Theodore Roosevelt and the Vietnam War, respectively, have been added to this classic work. The contributions remain centrally concerned with moral reasoning about important decisions taken by key statesmen in times of war, peace, and transformation, arguing that national leaders--including "realists"--have always concerned themselves with normative constraints on power, both their own and that of others.
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The UN Today ("The Secretariat" begins on p. 104) » Read Now
by William W. Wade. 225 pgs.

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...THE REFERENCE SHELF Vol. 26 No. 4 THE UN TODAY Edited by WILLIAM W. WADE THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY NEW YORK 1954 Copyright 1954 By The H. W. Wilson Company...
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The UN and Its Future ("The Secretary General's Role" begins on p. 13) » Read Now
by Robert Theobald. 190 pgs.

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...occurred after the death of Dag Hammarskjold. The Russians insisted upon...lines of action were possible, Hammarskjold elected the role of strong...destructive strength."...
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From the Secretary-General: 'How Would Hammarskjold Have Handled This?,' in UN Chronicle » Read Now
by Herminia Roque. 4 pgs.

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The Example of Dag Hammarskjold: Style and Effectiveness at the UN, in The Christian Century » Read Now
by Dorothy V. Jones. 4 pgs.

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Dag Hammarskjold: Virtuoso of Multilateral Diplomacy, in UN Chronicle » Read Now
by UN Chronicle. 2 pgs.

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The Strange Death of Dag Hammarskjold, in History Today » Read Now
by Matthew Hughes. 2 pgs.

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