A personal introduction -- The United Nations at the end of the Cold War -- The work of the United Nations and its structure -- 1990: reversing an aggression -- 1991: war and peace; and state failure -- 1992: the crest of the wave -- 1993: the tipping point -- 1994: the heart of darkness -- 1995: recessional -- The path to reform -- The High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change: the people and the process -- The Panel's report -- From the launch to the Summit and beyond -- Looking back and looking ahead.
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The end of the Cold War triggered a historic shift in world politics, and nowhere was this more keenly felt than in the United Nations. This is an insider's account of that turbulent period. Lord Hannay, who, as Britain's representative to the UN, sat in the Security Council from the time of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait until the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia (1990-1995), gives a first hand view of events as they unfolded. Just weeks after George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev's historic handshake, the UN was being asked to repel the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, to wind up a string of Thi.