A man who had won the Nobel Peace Prize,who was widely counted one of the greatest UN Secretary Generals,was nearly hounded from office by scandal.Indeed,both Annan and the institution he incarnates were so deeply shaken after the Bush Administration went to war in Iraq in the face of opposition from the Security Council that critics,and even some friends,began asking whether this sixty-year-old experiment in global policing has outlived its usefulness.Do its failures arise from its own structure and culture,or from a clash with an American administration determined to go its own way in defiance of world opinion?

Preface

PART Ⅰ

1.A Greater Magna Carta...

2.A Gold Coast Man

3.Peace,Not Justice

4.The American Candidate

5.Kofi in the Lion's Den

6.Bosnia Never Again

7.The Exquisite Ironies of Benevolent Colonialism

8,Romancing Cousin Jesse

9.Who's Going to Run Afghanistan?

10.Saddam's Pyrrhic Victory

11."What Did They Die For?"

PART Ⅱ

12.The Security Council Fiddles While Darfur Burns

13.The Gentle King and His Court

14.Two Cheers--If That--for Diplomacy

15.Oil-for-Food: The Witch Hunt

16.Kofi Briefly Rescued by Disaster

17.Nice Guys Get Crushed

18."They're Laughing at Us in Khartoum"

19.Oil-for-Food: The Nightmare

20.The Black Hole of Kinshasa

21.America's Interest in UN Reform Is...What,Exactly?

22.John Bolton's Nuclear Strategy

23.Model UN

Epilogue

Afterword

A Note on Sources

Acknowledgments

Index