Multilateralism / Book
The years of the dragon's teeth
27/10/2008 By Pierre Schori
"This book constitutes a mind-boggling settling of scores with the Bush administration, and also an acute, critical analysis of global international politics. Its author, Pierre Schori, with his exhaustive experience in these themes, uses this book to tackle the main issues concerning us, and not only presents us with conflicts, but also points to changes for the future. The book is an essential read."
Editorial Icaria
Gabriel García Márquez
"With a degree of force that is sorely lacking in the diplomatic sphere, Pierre Schori analyses in depth the hostile attitude of the US towards the UN during the Iraq crisis from the priviledged position that he had as Swedish ambassador to the organisation throughout that turbulent period.
Pierre Schori, Director of FRIDE and Juan Luis Cebrián, Managing Director of Grupo Prisa, on the day of the book presentation.
Schori presents the ins and outs of the diplomatic struggles in the UN, where he reveals the pettiness of the American diplomatic body under Bush. He also makes a series of well-aimed parallels with the war in Vietnam or with the prolonged American shadow hovering over the Latin America of the eighties and reflects on the urgent and essential changes which must take place in the immediate future if peace and cooperation are to be achieved in the world. If the future is to be characterised by peace, the UN must first be retrieved from the clutches of unilateralism, and the geopolitical and environmental challenges hanging over the planet must be taken seriously.
However, Schori's standpoint is by no means innocent. His wide experience feeds the strength of his opinions, which should not be considered as mere utopia, but rather as desperate pleas to save the only supranational body than can - subject to the profound reforms that it needs - get a world almost ruined by neo-conservatives back on track".
Source:Editorial Icaria
To download the book’s introduction, click here (In spanish)
Keywords
European Union Middle East Peace Superpower Terrorism United States US War on terrorBio author: Pierre Schori
A Swedish diplomat with vast experience in foreign affairs, development cooperation and peacekeeping operations, Schori served from 2005 until the beginning of 2007 as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of Mission in Côte d'Ivoire. He was Minister for International Development Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy, and Deputy Foreign Minister between 1994 and 1999. In 2000, Schori was appointed Swedish Ambassador to the United Nations, a position he held until 2004. He is the Director General de FRIDE.
