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Fuego y Furia: Dentro De La Casa Blanca De Trump

by Michael Wolff

Con acceso extraordinario a la Casa Blanca de Trump, Michael Wolff cuenta la historia interna de la presidencia más controversial de nuestro tiempo. Los primeros nueve meses del mandato de Donald Trump fueron tormentosos, escandalosos y absolutamente fascinantes. Ahora, gracias a su amplio acceso al Ala Oeste, el exitoso autor Michael Wolff cuenta en este libro explosivo la increíble historia de cómo Trump comenzó su presidencia de manera tan volátil y furiosa como él mismo, y proporciona al lector abundante información inédita sobre el caos que reina en la Casa Blanca. Nunca antes una presidencia había dividido al pueblo estadounidense de tal manera. Brillantemente informado y asombrosamente fresco, Fuego y Furia de Michael Wolff nos muestra cómo y por qué Donald Trump se ha convertido en el rey de la discordia y la desunión.

Fuego y Furia: Dentro De La Casa Blanca De Trump

by Michael Wolff

Con acceso extraordinario a la Casa Blanca de Trump, Michael Wolff cuenta la historia interna de la presidencia más controversial de nuestro tiempo. Los primeros nueve meses del mandato de Donald Trump fueron tormentosos, escandalosos y absolutamente fascinantes. Ahora, gracias a su amplio acceso al Ala Oeste, el exitoso autor Michael Wolff cuenta en este libro explosivo la increíble historia de cómo Trump comenzó su presidencia de manera tan volátil y furiosa como él mismo, y proporciona al lector abundante información inédita sobre el caos que reina en la Casa Blanca. Nunca antes una presidencia había dividido al pueblo estadounidense de tal manera. Brillantemente informado y asombrosamente fresco, Fuego y Furia de Michael Wolff nos muestra cómo y por qué Donald Trump se ha convertido en el rey de la discordia y la desunión.

Fuego y cenizas. Éxito y fracaso en política

by Michael Ignatieff

El libro que todos los votantes y líderes deberían leer. Una dosis de optimismo para quienes han perdido la fe en los políticos. «Un distinguido intelectual, escritor, periodista y académico deja su biblioteca y su cátedra de Harvard para emprender una carrera política en el más alto nivel, y durante seis años experimenta la pasión y la excitación, el entusiasmo y la intriga, el fracaso y el éxito de los partidos políticos en el amplio escenario canadiense. Seis años después de su inmersión en la vida política, regresa a su biblioteca, se dedica a la reflexión y nos ofrece un relato increíblemente revelador y honesto de esa aventura. Este libro es una brújula que ayudará al lector a encontrar su camino en el vertiginoso laberinto en que la política se ha convertido en las grandes democracias modernas.» Mario Vargas Llosa Fuego y cenizas es una inmersión en la salvaje vida política moderna, y una contribución esencial al debate sobre la participación en ella. ¿Está justificada la pérdida de la fe en la política democrática? ¿Hacen bien en conservarla los idealistas? En un momento en que la ciudadanía reclama con fuerza transparencia y ética, Ignatieff refleja la política como una materia cruel, impredecible e implacable, pero ofrece argumentos para que sigamos creyendo. La crítica ha dicho...«Un relato convincente y emocionante. Si lo que se busca es un texto clarividente, fruto de una aguda observación, mordaz pero a fin de cuentas esperanzador sobre la política contemporánea, este relato es muy difícil de superar.»David Runciman, The Guardian «Las librerías están repletas de memorias escritas por políticos exitosos, cuyo relato de sus carreras brilla con el resplandor de las batallas ganadas. La versión de Michael Ignatieff consta de ingredientes muy distintos: humildad, descubrimiento de sí mismo y humanidad.»Anne-Marie Slaughter, Universidad de Princeton «Fuego y cenizas sirve a muchas gente. Al ciudadano normal (porque eso existe, ¿no?), al político profesional y al que quiera dedicarse a la política. Al ciudadano normal le interesa saber cómo es eso de dejarse arrastrar por una mezcla de idealismo y vanidad, caer en manos de los profesionales del aparato y salir trasquilado.»José Manuel Calvo, Babelia «Lo mejor: sin pelos en la lengua al referirse a la ambición, la crueldad o la inconsistencia de los políticos. Recomendado para quienes consideran, como el propio Ignatieff, que, pese a todo, la política no es solo un juego sucio y la democracia merece la pena.»ABC Cultural «Michael Ignatieff ha relatado en Fuego y cenizas. Éxito y fracaso en política su fallida experiencia como líder en el Partido Liberal de Canadá. El libro, tan brillante como todas su obras, es la mirada atónita y perpleja de una reciénllegado a proceloso interior de un partido político.»Lucía Méndez, El Mundo «Esa rareza: una biografía política conmovedora. [...] Ha aprendido lo que es el combate político y nosotros nos alegramos de conocer a un hombre decente.»Diego Manrique, Babelia «Extraordinario. Fuego y cenizas es un brillante testimonio sobre el estado de la política y una advertencia sobre los peligros y los placeres de la vida política. De lectura obligada para cualquiera que esté contemplando una carrera política.»Robert Collison, Toronto Star «Cautivadoramente sincero, Ignatieff ha escrito un libro elegante, minucioso y franco.»Peter Clarke, Financial Times «Un relato honesto, repleto de una sabiduría alcanzada tras mucho esfuerzo.»John Ivison, National Post

Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment

by Jennifer Wenzel Patricia Yaeger

How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another—from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next—transformed culture and society? What are the implications of uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which concepts and theories clarify our relation to energy, and which just get in the way? Fueling Culture offers a compendium of keywords written by scholars and practitioners from around the world and across the humanities and social sciences. These keywords offer new ways of thinking about energy as both the source and the limit of how we inhabit culture, with the aim of opening up new ways of understanding the seemingly irresolvable contradictions of dependence upon unsustainable energy forms.Fueling Culture brings together writing that is risk-taking and interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from literary and cultural studies, environmental history and ecocriticism, political economy and political ecology, postcolonial and globalization studies, and materialisms old and new.Keywords in this volume include: Aboriginal, Accumulation, Addiction, Affect, America, Animal, Anthropocene, Architecture, Arctic, Automobile, Boom, Canada, Catastrophe, Change, Charcoal, China, Coal, Community, Corporation, Crisis, Dams, Demand, Detritus, Disaster, Ecology, Electricity, Embodiment, Ethics, Evolution, Exhaust, Fallout, Fiction, Fracking, Future, Gender, Green, Grids, Guilt, Identity, Image, Infrastructure, Innervation, Kerosene, Lebenskraft, Limits, Media, Metabolism, Middle East, Nature, Necessity, Networks, Nigeria, Nuclear, Petroviolence, Photography, Pipelines, Plastics, Renewable, Resilience, Risk, Roads, Rubber, Rural, Russia, Servers, Shame, Solar, Spill, Spiritual, Statistics, Surveillance, Sustainability, Tallow, Texas, Textiles, Utopia, Venezuela, Whaling, Wood, Work For a full list of keywords in and contributors to this volume, please go to: http://ow.ly/4mZZxV

Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy

by Stephen Moore Kathleen Hartnett White

Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity depended on solar energy captured in living plants. But with the ability to harness the energy in coal and other fossil fuels, human quality of life and capacity for progress increased exponentially. With the recent advent of safe fracking techniques and incredible innovations in the energy industry, fossil fuels are as promising an energy resource as ever. Yet, highly politicized climate policies are pushing a grand-scale shift to new and less efficient energy sources. Is such a shift really necessary? If fossil fuel energy is supplanted by less efficient and less affordable alternatives for political reasons, will the modern world suffer?

Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States (LSE International Studies)

by Naosuke Mukoyama

European colonialism was often driven by the pursuit of natural resources, and the resulting colonization and decolonization processes have had a profound impact on the formation of the majority of sovereign states that exist today. But how exactly have natural resources influenced the creation of formerly colonized states? And would the world map of sovereign states look significantly different if not for these resources? These questions are at the heart of Fueling Sovereignty, which focuses primarily on oil as the most significant natural resource of the modern era. Naosuke Mukoyama provides a compelling analysis of how colonial oil politics contributed to the creation of some of the world's most “unlikely” states. Drawing on extensive archival sources on Brunei, Qatar and Bahrain, he sheds light on how some small colonial entities achieved independence despite their inclusion in a merger project promoted by the metropole and regional powers.

Fuelling Insecurity: Energy Securitization in Azerbaijan

by Aurora Ganz

Known as ‘the land of fire’, Azerbaijan’s politics are materially and ideologically shaped by energy. In the country, energy security emerges as a mix of coercion and control, requiring widespread military and law enforcement deployment. This book examines the extensive network of security professionals and the wide range of practices that have spread in Azerbaijan’s energy sector. It unpacks the interactions of state, supra‐state, and private security organizations and argues that energy security has enabled and normalized a coercive way of exercising power. This study shows that oppressive energy security practices lead to multiple forms of abuse and poor energy policies.

Fuelling War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts (Adelphi series #373)

by Philippe Le Billon

A generous endowment of natural resources should favour rapid economic and social development. The experience of countries like Angola and Iraq, however, suggests that resource wealth often proves a curse rather than a blessing. Billions of dollars from resource exploitation benefit repressive regimes and rebel groups, at a massive cost for local populations. This Adelphi Paper analyses the economic and political vulnerability of resource-dependent countries; assesses how resources influence the likelihood and course of conflicts; and discusses current initiatives to improve resource governance in the interest of peace. It concludes that long-term stability in resource-exporting regions will depend on their developmental outcomes, and calls for a broad reform agenda prioritising the basic needs and security of local populations.

Fuels Paradise: Seeking Energy Security in Europe, Japan, and the United States

by John S. Duffield

Is the quest for true energy security a fool’s errand?In recent years, the efforts of nations to promote energy security have been hotly debated. Fuels Paradise examines how five major developed democracies—Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States—have sought to enhance their energy security since the oil shocks of the 1970s and in response to the more diverse set of challenges of the early twenty-first century. Drawing on a vast range of primary and secondary sources, John S. Duffield explains the actions taken—and not taken—by these countries to address their energy security concerns.Throughout the book, Duffield argues that state strength and policy legacies are essential for understanding national responses to energy insecurity. In addition to identifying feasible energy policies and the constraints faced by policy makers, he evaluates the prospects for international cooperation to promote energy security and considers the implications of recent advances in the production and distribution of energy, particularly the fracking revolution.An ambitious cross-national and longitudinal study grounded in promising theories of national behavior, Fuels Paradise will contribute substantially to broader debates about the determinants of state action and public policy.

Fuerza propia: La Cámpora por dentro

by Sandra Russo

La historia de La Cámpora contada desde la perspectiva de sus militantesy conductores y explicada por primera y única vez por su fundador,Máximo Kirchner. Una fuerza propia del proyecto político delkirchnerismo que se plantea crecer y madurar más allá de las eleccionesde 2015. ¿Qué es La Cámpora? ¿Por qué son tan amados y odiados los integrantes deesa agrupación que diseña su accionar fuera de los medios y de losestudios de televisión? ¿Son hijos del poder, nenes de mamá, trepadores,improvisados, neomontoneros, o el germen de una nueva generación que seplantea otra forma de hacer política? Luego del éxito de La Presidenta.Historia de una vida, la biografía de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,Sandra Russo logró que los miembros de la Mesa Nacional contaran susrespectivas biografías políticas. Un entramado de voces, algunas deellas sorprendentes, que leen la historia argentina desde unaperspectiva peronista y kirchnerista. Desde el asambleísmo y elpiqueterismo hasta la organización de una fuerza dedicada a defender,sostener y profundizar lo que definen como el proyecto nacional ypopular. Una fuerza propia que se plantea crecer y madurar más allá delas elecciones de 2015.En Fuerza propia. La Cámpora por dentro, Sandra Russo logra, además,incluir la voz de Máximo Kirchner, el conductor de la organización, elhijo de dos presidentes de la Nación, el dirigente que, según suscompañeros, tiene entre otras una aptitud de sus padres: saber mirarhacia adelante.

Fugitive Days

by Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers was born into privilege and is today a highly respected educator. In the late 1960s he was a young pacifist who helped to found one of the most radical political organizations in U.S. history, the Weather Underground. In a new era of antiwar activism and suppression of protest, his story, Fugitive Days, is more poignant and relevant than ever.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Fugitive Days: A Memoir

by Bill Ayers

Ayers helped found the Weather Underground in the late 1960s in response to the horror of the Vietnam War. He recounts a decade of living as a fugitive, stealing explosives, hiding from the law, and losing his beloved Diana Oughton in an explosion. The 2001 edition was published by Beacon Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)

Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist

by Bill Ayers

[Back cover] THE TRUE STORY OF THE 60S RADICAL AT THE CENTER OF THE RIGHT WING'S 2008 OBAMA SMEAR CAMPAIGN Bill Ayers was born into privilege and is today a highly respected educator. In the late 1960s he was a young pacifist who helped to found one of the most radical political organizations in U.S. history, the Weather Underground. In a new era of antiwar activism and suppression of protest, his story, Fugitive Days, is more poignant and relevant than ever.

Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays

by Sheldon S. Wolin Nicholas Xenos

Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. Fugitive Democracy brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as "Political Theory as a Vocation," written amid the Cold War and the conflict in Vietnam, to his late radical essays on American democracy such as "Fugitive Democracy," in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenomenon distinct from the routinized political management that passes for democracy today.The breathtaking range of Wolin's scholarship, political commitment, and critical acumen are on full display in this authoritative and accessible collection. He critically engages a diverse range of political theorists, including Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, John Rawls, Michel Foucault, and Richard Rorty. These essays grapple with topics such as power, modernization, the sixties, revolutionary politics, and inequality, all the while showcasing Wolin's enduring commitment to writing civic-minded theoretical commentary on the most pressing political issues of the day. Here, Wolin laments the rise of conservatives who style themselves as revolutionary, criticizes Rawlsian liberals as abstract to the point of being apolitical, diagnoses postmodern theory as a form of acquiescence, and much more.Fugitive Democracy offers enduring insights into many of today's most pressing political predicaments, and introduces a whole new generation of readers to this provocative figure in contemporary political thought.

Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays

by Sheldon S. Wolin Nicholas Xenos

Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. In Fugitive Democracy, the breathtaking range of Wolin’s scholarship, political commitment, and critical acumen are on full display in this authoritative and accessible collection of essays. This book brings together his most important writings, from classic essays to his late radical essays on American democracy such as "Fugitive Democracy," in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenomenon distinct from the routinized political management that passes for democracy today. Wolin critically engages a diverse range of political theorists, and grapples with topics such as power, modernization, the sixties, revolutionary politics, and inequality, all the while showcasing enduring commitment to writing civic-minded theoretical commentary on the most pressing political issues of the day. Fugitive Democracy offers enduring insights into many of today’s most pressing political predicaments, and introduces a whole new generation of readers to this provocative figure in contemporary political thought.

Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

by Samuel Truett

This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain. Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona--Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a "wild" frontier were stymied by labor struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of the U. S. -Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age.

Fugitive Politics: The Struggle for Ecological Sanity

by Carl Boggs

Fugitive Politics explores the intersection between politics and ecology, between the requirements for radical change and the unprecedented challenges posed by the global crisis, a dialectic has rarely been addressed in academia. Across eight chapters, Carl Boggs explores how systemic change may be achieved within the current system, while detailing attempts at achieving change within nation-states. Boggs states that any notion of revolution seems fanciful in the current climate, contending that controlling elites have concentrated their hold on corporate power along three self-serving fronts: technology (Big Tech) and the surveillance order, militarism and the warfare state, and intensification of globalized power. Combined with this Boggs cites the fundamental absence of revolutionary counter-forces, arguing that after decades of subservice relevant, allied to the rise of identity politics and social movements, the Marxist theoretical legacy is now exhausted and will not provide an exit from the crisis. Boggs concludes that the only possibility for fundamental change will come from an open style of politics, in the Jacobin tradition, operating within the overall structures of the current democratic state. Written for both an academic and a general readership, in the U.S. and beyond, Fugitive Politics will be of vital importance to those studying political theory, political philosophy, political history, Marxism and Marxist theory, authoritarian politics, ecology, environmental politics, and climate politics.

Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom (Just Ideas)

by Jimmy Casas Klausen

Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with “noble savages” and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau’s thought and argues that a fresh, “fugitive” perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau’s treatments of primitivism and slavery.Rather than trace Rousseau’s arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Hobbes and Locke, Fugitive Rousseau places Rousseau squarely in two imperial contexts: European empire in his contemporary Atlantic world and Roman imperial philosophy. Anyone who aims to understand the implications of Rousseau’s famous sentence “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” or wants to know how Rousseauian arguments can support a radical democratic politics of diversity, discontinuity, and exodus will find Fugitive Rousseau indispensable.

Fukushima and Beyond: Nuclear Power in a Low-Carbon World

by Christopher Hubbard

The catalyst for this study was the Fukushima-Daiichi major nuclear accident of 11 March 2011. In this event, a severe earthquake and15 metre tsunami caused serious damage and equipment failures at Japan’s Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant which were judged by the International Atomic Energy Agency to be equally as serious as the Soviet Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. Against a background of nuclear hesitancy and reassessment, the prospect of including or excluding nuclear power in a low-carbon twenty-first century world is now increasingly critical. It is in this emerging scenario and context that this book presents a full suite of historical, contemporary and projected data. Its use of complementary and comparative country-based case studies provides ample opportunity for developing strongly illustrative analysis of policy effectiveness in diverse polities and markets. In this way, it combines clear, comprehensive and rigorously science-based evidence, analysis and interpretation of data, all leading to conclusions and policy recommendations. Furthermore, it builds an understanding of the complexities and many challenges posed by the nuclear power option.

Fukushima and Civil Society: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective (The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture)

by Beata Bochorodycz

This book analyzes the impact of the Fukushima disaster on civil society in Japan with particular attention to the anti-nuclear movement, focusing on its development, repertoire of action, mobilization strategies, modes of operation, and impact on the state’s energy policy. Combining social movement theory and civil society theory, the author draws on extensive fieldwork in Japan to explore the context of the sociopolitical situation in Japan up to the Fukushima accident and to offer a typological description and analysis of the anti-nuclear movement that emerged after the disaster. Through an analysis of the relationship between the power elite and the anti-nuclear movement organizations, this volume considers the influences exercised by the ruling elites on civil society and vice versa, thus assessing the effects of the anti-nuclear movement on the state policy and the society. A comprehensive account of the anti-nuclear movement in post-Fukushima Japan, embedded within a broader perspective of the movement’s historical development, contemporary political structures, and opportunities, Fukushima and Civil Society will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with an interest in social movements. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Fukushima: A Monument to the Future of Nuclear Power (Global University for Sustainability Book Series)

by Kin Chi Lau Tsui Sit

The book is a collection of essays written by scholars/activists who are continuously concerned about the Fukushima catastrophe. The authors engagingly address the devastating environmental, economic, and social consequences of nuclear disasters, as well as recognize resistance of local communities through searching for alternative life and thought. The book offers a critique of nuclear energy and calls for collective action for social justice and ecological justice.

Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Bourgeois Liberalism: The Betrayal of the East Asian Enlightenment (Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice)

by Minhyuk Hwang

Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Bourgeois Liberalism introduces readers to the East Asian Enlightenment led by Fukuzawa Yukichi, one of the most important figures in the intellectual history of modern Japan. Despite his impact on political theory and modern Japanese history, Fukuzawa remains under-researched in Western academia, and while a few English-language books have been written about Fukuzawa, none have dealt with his political theory. This book describes Fukuzawa as a character with universal relevance and a unique view of the Enlightenment tradition. Emphasizing the power of bourgeois liberalism and the debate regarding its potential for transforming the strict class-caste society of Tokugawa Japan, Hwang discusses Fukuzawa's belief in the significance of individual autonomy, progress, and liberal rule of law in developing his project of the East Asian enlightenment, as well as his supposed “betrayal” of his early commitments due to his existential desire for Western recognition of Japan’s greatness. The book ends with an analysis of the complex relation between liberalism and progress in the East Asian context. ​

Fulbe Voices: Marriage, Islam, and Medicine In Northern Cameroon (Case Studies in Anthropology)

by Helen A. Regis

Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the Sandinistas, and the contra war, the United States and Nicaragua seemed destined to repeat the mistakes made by the U.S. and Cuba forty years before. The 1990 election in Nicaragua broke the pattern. Robert Pastor was a major US policymaker in the critical period leading up to and following the Sandinista Revolution of 1979. A decade later after writing the first edition of this book, he organized the International Mission led by Jimmy Carter that mediated the first free election in Nicaragua's history. From his unique vantage point, and utilizing a wealth of original material from classified government documents and from personal interviews with U.S. and Nicaraguan leaders, Pastor shows how Nicaragua and the United States were prisoners of a tragic history and how they finally escaped. This revised and updated edition covers the events of the democratic transition, and it extracts the lessons to be learned from the past.

Fulfilling the Promise: Reimagining School Counseling to Advance Student Success

by Mandy Savitz-Romer

Savitz-Romer offers a strategic approach to school counseling that enables educational leaders to draw on existing staff to create supportive contexts and programs for students. In this model of the &“academic home,&” counselors serve as the first point of contact for student support, connecting and coordinating services much like primary care physicians coordinate patient care in medical settings. They serve as the hub of a network of supports to prevent students from falling between the cracks. By highlighting promising practices in schools, districts, and states, and the efforts of individual school counselors and leaders, Fulfilling the Promise presents a conceptualization of school counseling that is relevant for all educators, as well as policy makers and funders. In order to create the conditions for school counselors to be most effective, however, systemic barriers must be addressed. This book brings together research, practical experience, and policy recommendations to envision a focused and practical role for school counselors in the twenty-first century.

Fulfilling the Sacred Trust: The UN Campaign for International Accountability for Dependent Territories in the Era of Decolonization

by Mary Ann Heiss

Fulfilling the Sacred Trust explores the implementation of international accountability for dependent territories under the United Nations during the early Cold War era. Although the Western nations that drafted the UN Charter saw the organization as a means of maintaining the international status quo they controlled, newly independent nations saw the UN as an instrument of decolonization and an agent of change disrupting global political norms. Mary Ann Heiss documents the unprecedented process through which these new nations came to wrest control of the United Nations from the World War II victors that founded it, allowing the UN to become a vehicle for global reform.Heiss examines the consequences of these early changes on the global political landscape in the midst of heightened international tensions playing out in Europe, the developing world, and the UN General Assembly. She puts this anti-colonial advocacy for accountability into perspective by making connections between the campaign for international accountability in the United Nations and other postwar international reform efforts such as the anti-apartheid movement, Pan-Africanism, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the drive for global human rights.Chronicling the combative history of this campaign, Fulfilling the Sacred Trust details the global impact of the larger UN reformist effort. Heiss demonstrates the unintended impact of decolonization on the United Nations and its agenda, as well as the shift in global influence from the developed to the developing world.

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