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end of the Cold War triggered a historic shift in world politics, and nowhere was this more keenly felt than in the United Nations.
This is an insiders account of that turbulent period,   

Lord Hannay, who, as Britains representative to the UN, sat in the Security Council from the time of Saddam Husseins invasion of Kuwait until the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, gives a first hand view

of events as they unfolded.
Just weeks after George H, W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachevs historic handshake, the UN was being asked to repel the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, to wind up a string of Third World proxy wars, and to find a solution to the challenges of environmental degradation and climate change.
 At first, the Five Permanent Members of the Security Council, worked together to an unprecedented extent, with notable success.
But as Hannay shows, little was done to prepare for the problems of state failurein Somalia, in the former Yugoslavia, in Rwanda and in Afghanistanwhich proved beyond the UNs capacity to handle and which frayed the solidarity of the main powers.
Hannay subsequently joined the Secretary Generals High Level Panel, and spearheaded the most ambitious attempt at reform of the organization since it was founded in.
 He recounts here with insight and candor why this program derailed, New World Disorder is an invaluable source of information for anyone seeking to understand the current structures, dynamics and trends of world politics.
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