A solitary war : a diplomat's chronicle of the Iraq war and its lessons / / Heraldo Munoz ; foreword by Kofi Annan.

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Superior document:Speaker's corner
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Speaker's corner books.
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Physical Description:xiii, 270 p.
Notes:"A Fulcrum paperback original"--P. [4] of cover.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Kofi Annan
  • Introduction
  • Early warnings
  • A telling phone call from Condi
  • A war with multilateral support
  • One, two, three Iraqs : the costs of the unilateralist doctrine
  • War games in the United Nations : a tale of missed opportunities
  • Resolution to act
  • A tug of war
  • The Blair-Lagos last-ditch effort
  • The final diplomatic bets
  • High noon in Iraq : diplomacy fails
  • Unilateralism in retreat : the hard task of winning the peace in Iraq
  • Multilateralism under fire
  • The war deepens : the UN is a target
  • A turn toward tactical multilateralism
  • Why multilateralism matters : the United Nations enables the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq and the 2005 elections
  • A sense of loss of direction and moral defeat
  • Negotiating the establishment of the Iraqi interim government
  • The end of occupation?
  • The 2005 elections and the Nouri al-Maliki government
  • Worlds apart : the alienation of allies
  • Chile : the distant neighbor
  • Mexico : "so far from God, so close to the United States"
  • The transatlantic divide with the "old Europe"
  • Less-than-willing allies and the failed evidence to go to war
  • Conclusions : the U.S war backtrack and the future of multilateralism
  • The costs of a war without friends
  • A changing attitude toward the United Nations
  • Why the United States should care about multilateralism
  • Beyond Iraq : to lead or to impose.