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One Man's Fight to Save the World
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Penguin, 30/mar/2010 - 640 pagine
Sergio Vieira de Mello—a humanitarian, peacemaker, and state builder with the United Nations—was at center of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Born in 1948, just as the post–World War II order was taking shape, he died in a terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003 as the battle lines in the twenty first-century's first great polarizing struggle were being drawn. This is a dual biography: It is the life story of a brave and enigmatic man who never stopped learning and had a thirty-year head start in thinking about the central challenges of our time , and it is also the biography of a perilous world whose ills are too big to ignore, but also too complex to manage quickly or cheaply. Even as Vieira de Mello arranged food deliveries, organized refugee returns, or negotiated with warlords, he pressed his colleagues to join him in grappling with such questions as: When should killers be engaged, and when should they be shunned? When is military force justified? How can outsiders play a role in healing broken people and broken places? Vieira de Mello did not have the luxury of simply posing these questions; he had to find answers, apply them, and live with the consequences.
  

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THEIR TRANQUILLITY HAS DISINTEGRATED
WHAT WOULD JAMIE DO?
A SERIES OF DIFFICULT AND SOMETIMES HOMICIDAL CLIENTS
FALLING OFF THE EDGE
SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS
TAKING SIDES
COMMITMENTS FOR LIFE
RULES OF THE GAME
LAW AND ORDER GAP
STAYING PUT
PROVIDING SECURITY FIRST
TIMORIZATION
A GAP TOO FAR
GETTING A LIFE
NOW WHAT THE HELL DO I DO?
TIME TO GET SERIOUS

THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION
INVENTING THE FUTURE
ASSEMBLING THE TEAM
BEFRIENDING THE POWERFUL
GETTING REAL
FOLLOWING THE PEOPLE
CHARMING THE KHMER ROUGE
TRANSITIONAL AUTHORITY WITHOUT THE AUTHORITY
A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT
EXPECTATION GAPS
SECURITY MELTDOWN
ONE IN MANY UNKNOWN STORIES
EXIT
STALLED
FORCE PROTECTION
CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
WE MUST NOT BE PARTIAL
MARKET MASSACRE
THE PATH TO A NORMAL LIFE
THE BLUFF THAT FAILED
THESE GUYS HAVE BALLS
BREAKING THE SIEGE BLOCKING AIR STRIKES
MUDDLING ALONG
QUAGMIRE
THE WEST MEANS DEATH
MULTINATIONAL FARCE
SIDING WITH POWER
ENDGAME
BECOMING A BUREAUCRAT
THE HUMANITARIAN TRAP
TAKING SIDES
NOT WAGING WAR
BEHIND SERB LINES
PRETTY REVOLTING
ENDING A WAR
ASSEMBLING A TEAM
IN CHARGE AT LAST
THE POLICING GAP
COMBINING MOTHERHOOD AND VIRGINITY
NO QUICK FIX
INDEPENDENCE
UN MUTINY
AN INTERVENTION AND A TRANSITION
YEAR ZERO
POWER SHARING
ADDING INSULT TO INJURY
WHAT WOULD VICTIMS EXPECT?
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
IRAQ
A BIG INTERVIEW?
OFF TO WAR
A VITAL ROLE?
AMERICAN RULE
RETURN TO THE UN
SERGIO WILL FIX IT
A TEAM
PLAYING IN THEIR GARDEN
LAW AND ORDER GAP
LEARNING TOUR
POWER SHARING AND LEGITIMACY
LIKE A VICTORIAN PARLOR MAID
NOW A WAR ZONE
SOFT TARGET
RETURNING TO THE CANAL
SURVIVORS
A BROKEN SYSTEM
FIXING THE SYSTEM
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2 I WILL NEVER USE THE WORD UNACCEPTABLE AGAIN
CHAPTER 3 BLOOD RUNNING BLUE
CHAPTER 4 HITTING THE GROUND RUNNING
CHAPTER 5 BLACK BOXING
CHAPTER 6 WHITE CAR SYNDROME
CHAPTER 7 SANDWICHES AT THE GATES
CHAPTER 8 SERBIO
CHAPTER 9 IN RETROSPECT
CHAPTER 10 DAMNED IF YOU DO
CHAPTER 11 GIVING WAR A CHANCE
CHAPTER 12 INDEPENDENCE IN ACTION
CHAPTER 13 VICEROY
CHAPTER 14 BENEVOLENT DICTATOR
CHAPTER 15 HOARDING POWER HOARDING BLAME
CHAPTER 16 A NEW SERGIO
CHAPTER 17 FEAR IS A BAD ADVISER
CHAPTER 18 DONT ASK WHO STARTED THE FIRE
CHAPTER 19 YOU CANT HELP PEOPLE FROM A DISTANCE
CHAPTER 20 REBUFFED
CHAPTER 21 AUGUST 19 2003
CHAPTER 22 POSTMORTEM
EPILOGUE
INTERIOR IMAGES
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Samantha Power founded the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, and is now a faculty affiliate. From 1993 to 1996 she covered the wars in Yugoslavia as a reporter for US News and the Economist. A native of Ireland, she moved to the US in 1979 at the age of nine, and graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School.

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