Brian Urquhart
Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. (March 2009)
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March 26, 2009: What You Can Learn from Reinhold Niebuhr
The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr, with an introduction by Andrew J. Bacevich
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J. Bacevich
The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did) by James Traub
November 6, 2008: The Middle East: What to Do?
A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East by Kenneth M. Pollack
June 26, 2008: The UN and the Race Against Death
A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity by Jan Egeland
March 6, 2008: One Angry Man
Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad by John Bolton
November 8, 2007: 'Are Diplomats Necessary?' (letter)
October 11, 2007: Are Diplomats Necessary?
Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite by Carne Ross
May 31, 2007: India's Great Tragedy
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
March 29, 2007: Disaster: From Suez to Iraq
Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization by Wm. Roger Louis
The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980–2005 by David M. Malone
September 21, 2006: Living in an Impasse
It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir by Emma Williams
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
May 11, 2006: The Outlaw World
Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR's Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush's Illegal War by Philippe Sands
Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Our Leaders Are Taking the Law into Their Own Hands by Philippe Sands
War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict by Michael Byers
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
February 9, 2006: The UN Oil-for-Food Program: Who Is Guilty?
The Management of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme (five volumes) a report by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme
Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Programme by the Iraqi Regime (one volume) a report by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme
August 11, 2005: The New American Century?
The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course by Richard N. Haass
May 26, 2005: Humanitarianism Is Not Enough
The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s by Sadako Ogata
February 24, 2005: Extreme Makeover
America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism by Anatol Lieven
November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future
September 23, 2004: The Good General
Battle Ready by Tom Clancy, with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tony Koltz
You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building by Simon Chesterman
July 15, 2004: A Major Attack (letter)
June 10, 2004: A Cautionary Tale
Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
May 13, 2004: A Matter of Truth
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States Staff Statements Nos. 1-8 www.9-11commission.gov
March 25, 2004: Hidden Truths
Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix
The Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr. David Kelly, CMG by Lord Hutton
January 15, 2004: 'A Great Day in History'
Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations by Stephen C. Schlesinger
October 9, 2003: World Order & Mr. Bush
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy by Andrew J. Bacevich
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People by Jonathan Schell
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions by Clyde Prestowitz
May 15, 2003: The Rights Stuff
Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights by Aryeh Neier
December 19, 2002: The Prospect of War
The Threatening Storm:The Case for Invading Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack
October 10, 2002: Is There a Case for Little Wars?
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power by Max Boot
April 25, 2002: Shameful Neglect
'A Problem from Hell': America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
February 14, 2002: Lumumba and the UN (letter)
December 20, 2001: The Tragedy of Lumumba: An Exchange
October 4, 2001: The Tragedy of Lumumba
The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte, translated from the Dutch by Ann Wright and Renée Fenby
June 21, 2001: Reflections on the Mitchell Report
April 26, 2001: Mrs. Roosevelt's Revolution
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declarationof Human Rights Mary Ann Glendon
September 21, 2000: How Not to Deal with Bullies
The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security by Richard Butler
The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s by David Cortright, by George A. Lopez
We The Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the Twenty-first Century Report of the Secretary-General
June 15, 2000: Some Thoughts on Sierra Leone
April 27, 2000: In the Name of Humanity
Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict by William Shawcross
Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 53/55 (1998) (Srebrenica Report) United Nations Document
Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda by United Nations Document
November 18, 1999: Mission Impossible
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
August 12, 1999: The Making of a Scapegoat
Unvanquished: A US-UN Saga by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
May 6, 1999: How Not to Fight a Dictator
Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn, by Patrick Cockburn
Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem—Once and for All by Scott Ritter
July 16, 1998: Looking for the Sheriff
FDR and the Creation of the UN by Townsend Hoopes, by Douglas Brinkley
United Nations: The First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler
The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War by Richard N. Haass
Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report by the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.
May 12, 1994: Who Can Police the World?
Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s and Beyond by Gareth Evans
Seeking Peace from Chaos: Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia Publishers by Samuel M. Makinda
The UN in Cambodia: Lessons for Complex Peacekeeping International Peacekeeping by Michael W. Doyle, by Nishkala Suntharalingam
Aftermath of the Gulf War: An Assessment of UN Action Publishers by Ian Johnstone
June 24, 1993: A UN Volunteer Military Force—Four Views
June 10, 1993: For a UN Volunteer Military Force
April 9, 1992: A Double Standard
March 7, 1991: Learning from the Gulf
June 14, 1990: Discontents at the UN: An Exchange
April 26, 1990: 'The UN and Its Discontents': An Exchange
March 15, 1990: The United Nations & Its Discontents
January 21, 1988: Market Garden (letter)
September 24, 1987: The Last Disaster of the War
Books by Brian Urquhart
A World in Need of Leadership: Tomorrow's United Nations: A Fresh Appraisal (1996)
Ralph Bunche: An American Life (1993)
Great Problems and Great Opportunities (1992)
Peacemaking, Peacekeeping and the Future (1990)
Decolonization and World Peace (1989)
A Life in Peace and War (1987)
The United Nations and International Law: The Rede Lecture, 1985, Delivered Before the University of Cambridge on 6 June 1985 (1986)
Hammarskjold (1972)