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No Enchanted Palace The End Of Empire & The Ideological Origins Of The United Nations
Hardback Edition: 1
This is a story told through the clash of personalities, such as South African statesman Jan Smuts, who saw in the UN a means to protect the old imperial and racial order; Raphael Lemkin and Joseph Schechtman, Jewish intellectuals at odds over how the UN should combat genocide and other atrocities; and Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, who helped transform the UN from an instrument of empire into a forum for ending it. A much-needed historical reappraisal of the early development of this vital world institution, No Enchanted Palace reveals how the UN outgrew its origins and has exhibited an extraordinary flexibility that has enabled it to endure to the present day.
Pages : 236
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Publication date : 2009
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, History, Sociology, Colonialism & Imperialism, History Of Ideas