The absolutely indispensable man : Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the fight to end empire

The absolutely indispensable man : Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the fight to end empire / Kal Raustiala.

Nobel Laureate, UN Under Secretary General, and American diplomat, Ralph Bunche was present at the creation of the postwar international order. Yet even before that order was launched Bunche championed one of the most consequential, but often unsung, transformations of the twentieth century: the end...

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Main Author: Raustiala, Kal (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Bunche, Ralph J. > (Ralph Johnson), > 1904-1971.
Bunche, Ralph J. > (Ralph Johnson), > 1904-1971
United Nations > Biography.
United Nations
African American diplomats > Biography.
Nobel Prize winners > United States > Biography.
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
African American diplomats
Nobel Prize winners
Statesmen
Biography & non-fiction prose.
Biography.
United States
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. West and East
  • 2. Mandates and Colonies
  • 3. A World View of Race
  • 4. The War
  • 5. Rebuilding the World
  • 6. San Francisco
  • 7. The UNO
  • 8. The Struggle over Trusteeship
  • 9. The Problem of Palestine
  • 10. The Path to the Prize
  • 11. Triumph
  • 12. Bunche Fever
  • 13. Loyalty
  • 14. Showdown at Suez
  • 15. Corporal Bunche
  • 16. To Gaza
  • 17. The Year of Africa
  • 18. Katanga
  • 19. The Congo and the Cold War
  • 20. The Death of Hammarskjold
  • 21. Kennedy and Johnson
  • 22. From Saigon to Selma
  • 23. Seeking an End
  • 24. An Idealist and a Realist
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index.

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