Iraq awaits
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The United Nations will be choosing the successor to its present Secretary General Kofi Annan in late 2006, from a wide field of declared and undeclared candidates. The new Secretary-General would be saddled by the responsibility of overcoming the organization's trauma over its staff losses in Baghdad in 2003 and lead it to a more active political support for Iraqi's polite processes than Annan was latterly able, or willing, in order to play and help the coalition to disengage from Iraq by supporting a new politics of accommodation, aiming to avert civil war.
Publication Name: The World Today
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0043-9134
Year: 2006
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Knowing when to lead
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There are many eager people getting ready to take over the post of the UN Secretary General when it would become vacant in late 2006 with the stepping down of present Secretary General Kofi Annan after completion of his term. The job profile of the UN-Secretary General is provided along with the profiles of the aspiring candidates for the post.
Publication Name: The World Today
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0043-9134
Year: 2006
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When something must be done
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An article discusses the global community's responsibility in maintaining both moral legitimacy and the legitimacy of international law where humanity is protected and not prioritized.
Publication Name: The World Today
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0043-9134
Year: 2008
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