War on Peace Does the UN Still Matter?

The War on Peace is both a journalistic take on the -turbulent past year at the United Nations and an overview of the organization and its history. On September 12, 2002, President Bush challenged the U.N. to step up enforcement of its resolutions or become an "ineffective debating society." As the United States moved toward war with Iraq in the ensuing months, France, Germany and other erstwhile U.S. allies aired their opposition before the UN Security Council. And it was at the U.N. that Secretary of State Colin Powell presented charts and documents as "evidence" of the Iraqi military threat, weeks before the strikes on Baghdad began. Coauthor Corine Lesnes, Le Monde's U.N. correspondent, describes the European reaction to U.S. unilateralism, including German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's use of anti-U.S. rhetoric as a successful campaign tactic. More recently, the world has witnessed the helplessness of U.N. forces in Liberia. The recent bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad was a reminder that the organization and its members can be a target for hostility towards the West. The War on Peace takes us inside the United Nations, ponders the consequences of the recent diplomatic battle, and evaluates the road ahead. Corine Lesnes is Le Monde's correspondent in New York covering the United Nations. Lesnes was previously deputy editor-in-chief of Le Monde's international section, in charge of coverage of the United States (2000 presidential election, 9-11 attacks). Donald Paneth is a former reporter for The New York Times who has covered the United Nations, worked for the U.N. Secretariat, and contributed to other books about the U.N. since 1945. Paneth is currently the UN correspondent for the New York Indypendent.Paneth, Donald is the author of 'War on Peace Does the UN Still Matter?', published 2004 under ISBN 9781583226315 and ISBN 1583226311.