Dan Plesch is een toonaangevend expert op het gebied van internationale betrekkingen en diplomatie. Zijn werk duikt in cruciale momenten van de wereldgeschiedenis en de werking van internationale instellingen. Hij analyseert de ingewikkelde dynamiek tussen grootmachten en hun impact op de wereldorde met een doordringende en geïnformeerde aanpak. Plesch biedt diepgaande inzichten in het verleden om de uitdagingen van het heden en de toekomst te belichten.
What every beauty queen really wants is world peace, but isn't it just a dream for bikini-clad airheads? Terrorist attacks, the war in Iraq and weapons of mass destruction make world peace seem further away than ever.
In January 1942, the “Declaration by United Nations” forged a military alliance based on human rights principles that included over 24 countries, marking the beginning of the UN. But how did the armies of the United Nations co-operate during World War II to halt Nazi expansionism? When did the UN start to tackle the international economic and social challenges of the post-war world? This is the first book to explore how the profound restructuring of the international world order was organized. Drawing on previously unknown archival material, Plesch analyzes the engagement with the UN by all levels of society, from grassroots to the political elites. Plesch has pieced together the full story of how the UN intervened in surprising ways at a pivotal time in world history and argues that the UN's success is as vital today as it was then.
Reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. This history also brings long overdue credit to the United Nations' War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), which operated during and after World War II.