"The U.N. Security Council and the Making of the Modern World"

Update: 2009-10-08

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A talk by professor and author David Bosco. From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always provided a space for the five great powers to sit down together. Five to Rule Them All tells the inside story of this remarkable diplomatic creation. Drawing on extensive research, including dozens of interviews with serving and former ambassadors on the Council, the book chronicles political battles and personality clashes as it opens the closed doors of its meeting room. What emerges here is a revealing portrait of the most powerful diplomatic body in the world. From the World Beyond the Headlines lecture series.

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"The U.N. Security Council and the Making of the Modern World"

arester@uchicago.edu (The Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago)

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"The U.N. Security Council and the Making of the Modern World"

arester@uchicago.edu (The Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago)

"The U.N. Security Council and the Making of the Modern World"