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Marrack Goulding joined the United Nations as the Under-Secretary-General in charge of peacekeeping operations in 1986, at a time of intense optimism. With the thawing of the Cold War it seemed that at last the UN could concentrate on the real issues affecting the world: preventing and resolving conflict and fighting poverty, disease, injustice and crime. At first there were spectacular successes – the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq ceasefire, the liberation of Kuwait, and peace settlements in Namibia, Angola, El Salvador, Cambodia and Mozambique. The UN, it seemed, could do no wrong. But by 1993 the bubble had burst, and the UN’s credibility had been seriously undermined by its failure to halt the bloodshed in Angola, Bosnia and Somalia. Meanwhile, spending on peacekeeping had risen more than tenfold, from 260 million to 2.7 billion dollars.

Book Description: Marrack Goulding joined the UN as the Under-Secretary-General in charge of peacekeeping operations in 1986, at a time of intense optimism. This account of seven years of peacekeeping gives the reader an insider’s view of what went wrong and also of what the UN achieved during this critical period.

About the Author: Sir Marrack Goulding, after several diplomatic postings mainly to the Middle East, was seconded to the Cabinet Office where one of his projects was the CPRS review of Britain’s Overseas Representation. Since leaving the UN, he has been Warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford.