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Preventive Diplomacy: Stopping Wars Before They Start Book

This cross-disciplinary reader on global politics is a fresh and fascinating book. When the insights and methodologies of public health are applied to the handling of international disasters, the change in policy perspective is an intriguing--even hopeful--mix of sound thinking and new ideas. The editor, Kevin M. Cahill, president of the Center for International Health and Cooperation, has pulled together essays from the new United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, former British Foreign Secretary David Owen, and Organization of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim. One of the most thoughtful essays in the book is by Alain Destexhe, the former head of "Doctors without Borders." Destexhe considers cases in which "aid becomes the pretext for political inaction, which leads only to catastrophe". This is a satisfying and challenging collection that puts events in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Somalia in a fascinating context.Read More

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  • Product Description

    The suppression of war has been the primary objective of the United Nations for almost fifty years, and stopping a war before it starts is easier than ending a war already underway. History, however, has shown that military interventions and economic sanctions often do more harm than good. In Preventive Diplomacy, Nobel prize winners, top officials, and revered thinkers tackle these issues and explore the process of conflict prevention from humanitarian, economic, and political perspectives. This cross-disciplinary reader on global politics demonstrates that when new insights and methodologies on public health are applied to the handling of international disasters, the change in policy perspective is intriguing--even hopeful.

  • 0415922852
  • 9780415922852
  • 19 September 2000
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
  • 2
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