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Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict

Reporting from war zones around the globe, acclaimed journalist William Shawcross gives us an unforgettable portrait of a dangerous world and of the brave men and women, ordinary and extraordinary, who risk their lives to make and keep the peace. The end of the Cold War was followed by a decade of regional and ethnic wars, massacres and forced exiles, and by constant calls for America to lead the international community as chief peacekeeper. The efforts of that community -- identified with the United Nations but often dominated by the world's wealthy nations -- have had mixed results. In Africa, the West is accused of indifference or too little, too late. In Cambodia, the UN presides over free elections, but the results are overridden. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein continues to defy the UN, and in Bosnia and Kosovo, the West acts hesitantly after terrible slaughter and ethnic cleansing. Shawcross, a veteran of many war zones, has had broad access to global policymakers, including UN secretary general Kofi Annan, high American diplomats, peacekeepers and humanitarian-aid professionals. He has traveled with them to some of the world's most horrifying killing fields. Deliver Us from Evil is his stark, on-the-ground report on the many crises faced by the international community and its servants as they struggle to respond around the world. He brings home the price many have paid attempting to restore peace and help alleviate terrible suffering. He illuminates the risks we face in a complex and dangerous world. Some critics have concluded that some interventions may prolong conflict and create further casualties. The lesson we learn from ruthless and vengeful warlords the world over is thatgoodwill without strength can make things worse. Shawcross argues that recent interventions -- in Kosovo and East Timor, for example -- provide reason for concern as well as hope. Still, the unmistakable message of the past decade is that we cannot intervene everywhere, that not

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Title of ebook: Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict
ISBN: 9780743225779
parent-ISBN: 9780684832333
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Internet download file size: 477 kb
Pages: 448
Published: 06-2001
Released online for download: 06-01-2001
Author of eBook: Shawcross, William

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Contents

1 Another World War 2 From Phnom Penh to Sarajevo 3 Remaking Cambodia 4 Crossing the Mogadishu Line 5 Genocide in Our Time 6 Bosnian Endgame 7 Cultures of Impunity 8 Uniting Nations 9 Sunday in Baghdad 10 Into Africa 11 Political Prison 12 Iraq Again 13 Desert Encounters 14 From Kosovo to East Timor Epilogue Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

Chapter One

Another World War

On a dark afternoon in January 1999, with the wind chill factor down to minus ten and snow rushing around outside the thirty-eighth floor of the United Nations headquarters in New York, the secretary general, Kofi Annan, could be forgiven for feeling beleaguered. Nineteen ninety-eight, he said to me, "was a hell of a year. But I think 1999 will be worse."

Eleven months before, he had been hailed in much of the world as a savior after persuading Saddam Hussein to permit UN inspectors to resume their search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, thus stopping the United States and Great Britain from bombing Iraq. One newspaper called him "the world's secula ... read full excerpt from Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict ebook

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