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Pilgrimage For Peace: A Secretary General's Memoir Hardcover – January 1, 1997

by Javier Pere de Cuellar (Author), Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Author)

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Javier Perez de Cuellar served as the Secretary General of the United Nations from 1982-1991, a period in which some of the most dramatic and politically significant events of the late 20th century occurred. In this book, he shares his impressions of some of the powerful world leaders who he worked with, of the roles they played in these events, and of his impressions of them.

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544 pages
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English
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Palgrave Macmillan
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January 1, 1997
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6.5 x 1.75 x 10 inches
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0312164866
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978-0312164867
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan (January 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312164866
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312164867
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.75 x 10 inches

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Mariela Sagel

A very important testimony on the issues the author confront as Secretary General

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2019

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It is important this book because Javier Pérez de Cuellar handled a lot of international and sensitive issues and he explains, very profoundly, all of them, how to approach and the actors of them

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Indispensable to understand today's world.

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Imerhil

I cant right for long, its over?

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2014

Wonderful book. Best of its kind in its genre. The world. Peace.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2001

Reviewed in International Relations Vol14 No4 April 1999 byPETER UNWIN...
To be Secretary-General of the United Nations must bethe world's most impossible job. He must take a view on all theworld's problems, and action on many of them. He leads anunderfunded organization and a staff notoriously uneven in itsabilities and commitment. In everything he undertakes he has toprotect his objectivity, remembering the disparate interests of theglobal constituency he serves. And day-in-day-out the world demandsof him solutions to the insoluble, all too often undercuts hisefforts, and blames him for his failures.
To produce a readablememoir of a Secretary-General's experiences must be literature'smost impossible task. The tasks he faces are by their very natureepisodic, eclectic, disparate, tackling first this challenge to theworld's well-being and then that. And that vast majority of readerswho still locate themselves first by reference to the country fromwhich they come, look for a national focus which a conscientiousSecretary-General must eschew.
This is a background against whichJavier Perez de Cuellar has produced Pilgrimage for Peace, an accountof his stewardship in tackling fifteen of the multitude of issues withwhich he was involved as Secretary-General between 1982 and 1991. Theyrange from Lebanon to Central America, Cambodia to Yugoslavia, takingin things like Cyprus, Namibia and the Western Sahara along theway. There is something here for everyone, but the episodes which arelikely to interest a predominantly British-based readership areperhaps his accounts of the Falklands crisis and of the War in theGulf.
In describing his attempts to find a peaceful resolution tothe Falklands dispute, Perez de Cuellar confronts very frankly his ownLatin American background. His account of his negotiations withBritish and Argentine representatives seems scrupulously fair, whilediscreetly admitting to finding the British approach the morepersuasive of the two. Here, as in so many of his case histories, hesees time as the enemy, with the unstoppable march of events forcingdeadlines and ultimata upon the negotiators. So for him, AlexanderHaig's attempts at shuttle diplomacy are valiant and ingenious butin the end extravagant of the time that was ticking away as theBritish task force advanced into the South Atlantic and Londonconvinced itself that Buenos Aires was playing not for a solution butfor time. For the statesman in such a case, Perez de Cuellar comments,time may in the long run prove itself a healer, but in the press ofevents it is a tyrannical master.
In his treatment of the Gulf Wareight years later, Perez de Cuellar examines a very different crisis,and looks at it from the point of view of the interaction between twopeacemaking forces which at their best are mutually supportive but caneasily get at odds with one another. The one is action by a state or agroup of states, in the case of the Gulf the coalition which GeorgeBush put together in support of a predominantly American militarycommitment. The other is action by the world society's dedicatedinternational instrument, the United Nations, which throughout theyears of the Cold War was all too often blocked by a Security Councilveto from one side or other. In the Gulf in 1992 the two forces workedin rough-and-ready harmony, with one providing the military capacityand will and the other the international legitimacy. But more recentevents in the Gulf have demonstrated the difficulty of maintainingsuch harmony in the long haul. The tension between United Nations andUnited States, temporarily set aside in 1992, has long since returnedto haunt Secretaries-General and, perhaps, Presidents.
Perez deCuellar sets these and other episodes in a broader, more enduringcontext. He tells us something about the United Nations as instrumentand something about the convictions with which he entered on his termas Secretary-General and passed the job on to a successor nine yearslater. He leaves us with an impression of a courageous and determinedman, perhaps deficient in supreme political skills and without thecharisma of a born leader, who nevertheless did his best in a periodof great change and serious danger for the world community of which hewas the servant.

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