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The UN secretary-general and moral authority : ethics and religion in international leadership /

Once described by Trygve Lie as the most impossible job on earth, the position of UN Secretary-General is as frustratingly constrained as it is prestigious. The Secretary-General's ability to influence global affairs often depends on how the international community regards his moral authority....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kille, Kent J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Moral authority and the UN secretary-general's ethical framework / Kent J. Kille
  • Seeking balance : the secretary-general as normative negotiator / Dorothy V. Jones
  • The house that Trygve Lie built : ethical challenges as the first UN secretary-general / James P. Muldoon, Jr.
  • The UN Charter, the New Testament, and Psalms : the moral authority of Dag Hammarskjöld / Alynna J. Lyon
  • U Thant : Buddhism in action / A. Walter Dorn
  • An ethical enigma : another look at Kurt Waldheim / Michael T. Kuchinsky
  • Religion, ethics, and reality : a study of Javier Perez de Cuellar / Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan and David P. Forsythe
  • A realist in the utopian city : Boutros Boutros-Ghali's ethical framework and its impact / Anthony F. Lang, Jr.
  • Politics and values at the United Nations : Kofi Annan's balancing act / Courtney B. Smith
  • The secular pope : insights on the UN secretary-general and moral authoriy / Kent J. Kille.