Brian Urquhart
Biographic Data
| ID | 976656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Urquhart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Urquhart |
| SIGNATURE | URQUHART B |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations from 1974 to 1986. He joined the organization in 1946 and remains centrally involved in the dialogue over renewing the UN system. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Next Secretary-General: How to Fill a Job with No Description
Can the United Nations Adapt to the 21st Century
IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT TO TAKE SERIOUSLY question of whether UN can cope with security problems of 21st century or not. We are seeing, over and over again, how international problems eventually come back to UN because it provides last, and sometimes best, hope of resolving them. And we have some unusually ominous problems to solve.Canada has been one of most consistent, supportive, and unflappable members of United Nations. It has stood with org…
Blue Helmets: The Strategy of UN Military Operations
Erskine Childers 1929–1996
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle
Selecting the World's CEO: Remembering the Secretaries-General
Ralph Bunche: A Man of the World, but Never at Home
Military Adviser to the Secretary General: UN Peacekeeping and the Congo Crisis
The Undersecretary General
As United States geared up for war in fall of 1941, Ralph Bunche went to work in Office of Coordinator of Information, assignment that initiated a lifelong career in public service, in both U.S. government and United Nations. Brian Urquhart's laudatory biography of Bunche focuses on public Bunche, especially man who shaped policy and practice in United Nations from 1945 until his death in 1971. Although never serving as secretary general of UN, B…
Ralph Bunche: An American Life
Journal Article Ralph Bunche: An American Life. By Brian Urquhart. (New York: Norton, 1993. 496 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-393-03527-1.) Get access Gerald Horne Gerald Horne University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1367–1368, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081589 Published: 01 December 1994
The United Nations and the future peace
The end of the Cold War promised a great improvement in the UN's effectiveness as a framework for international peace and security. Yet, it soon became evident that the UN was having great difficulty in coming to grips with countless new conflicts. Several practical measures are suggested for making the UN a more credible and relevant instrument/or a more peaceful and less destructive post‐Cold War world
The United Nations in 1992: Problems and opportunities
This article by Brian Urquhart, originally in the form of a Memorial Lecture for Lord Caradon, discusses the opportunities and challenges as well as the problems of the post-Cold War world. It suggests the magnitude and urgency of these problems—political, environmental or population-related—and proposes ways of tackling them, especially through the updating and strengthening of the United Nations. Improvements in the United Nations peace and sec…
The U. N.'s Crucial Choice
Beyond the ‘sheriff's posse’
Problems and Prospects of the United Nations
The United Nations system and the future
Journal Article The United Nations system and the future Get access Brian Urquhart Brian Urquhart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 225–231, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622069 Published: 01 April 1989
A Life in Peace and War
Journal Article A Life in Peace and War. By Brian Urquhart. (New York: Harper & Row, 1987. ix + 390 pp. ' $25.00.) Get access Charles D. Smith Charles D. Smith San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 670–671, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887987 Published: 01 September 1988
A Life in Peace and War
The role of the United Nations in maintaining and improving international security
The Limits of Unilateralism
International Peace and Security: Thoughts on the Twentieth Anniversary of Dag Hammarskjold's Death
United Nations Peace Forces and the Changing United Nations: An Institutional Perspective
At its founding one of the UN's most publicized advantages over its predecessor, the League of Nations, was the fact that it was a peace organization “with teeth.” This somewhat unattractive phrase referred to Chapter VII of the Charter and the possibility of military force being put at the disposal of the Security Council. In fact this provision of the Charter was one of the first victims of East-West disagreement, and, although the Military Sta…
The Next Secretary-General: How to Fill a Job with No Description
International Peace and Security: Thoughts on the Twentieth Anniversary of Dag Hammarskjold's Death
The United Nations in 1992: Problems and opportunities
This article by Brian Urquhart, originally in the form of a Memorial Lecture for Lord Caradon, discusses the opportunities and challenges as well as the problems of the post-Cold War world. It suggests the magnitude and urgency of these problems—political, environmental or population-related—and proposes ways of tackling them, especially through the updating and strengthening of the United Nations. Improvements in the United Nations peace and sec…
Beyond the ‘sheriff's posse’
United Nations Peace Forces and the Changing United Nations: An Institutional Perspective
At its founding one of the UN's most publicized advantages over its predecessor, the League of Nations, was the fact that it was a peace organization “with teeth.” This somewhat unattractive phrase referred to Chapter VII of the Charter and the possibility of military force being put at the disposal of the Security Council. In fact this provision of the Charter was one of the first victims of East-West disagreement, and, although the Military Sta…
Selecting the World's CEO: Remembering the Secretaries-General
Ralph Bunche: An American Life
Journal Article Ralph Bunche: An American Life. By Brian Urquhart. (New York: Norton, 1993. 496 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-393-03527-1.) Get access Gerald Horne Gerald Horne University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1367–1368, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081589 Published: 01 December 1994
The United Nations and the future peace
The end of the Cold War promised a great improvement in the UN's effectiveness as a framework for international peace and security. Yet, it soon became evident that the UN was having great difficulty in coming to grips with countless new conflicts. Several practical measures are suggested for making the UN a more credible and relevant instrument/or a more peaceful and less destructive post‐Cold War world
The United Nations system and the future
Journal Article The United Nations system and the future Get access Brian Urquhart Brian Urquhart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 225–231, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622069 Published: 01 April 1989
United Nations Peace Forces and the Changing United Nations: An Institutional Perspective
At its founding one of the UN's most publicized advantages over its predecessor, the League of Nations, was the fact that it was a peace organization “with teeth.” This somewhat unattractive phrase referred to Chapter VII of the Charter and the possibility of military force being put at the disposal of the Security Council. In fact this provision of the Charter was one of the first victims of East-West disagreement, and, although the Military Sta…
International Peace and Security: Thoughts on the Twentieth Anniversary of Dag Hammarskjold's Death
The role of the United Nations in maintaining and improving international security
The Limits of Unilateralism
A Life in Peace and War
A Life in Peace and War
Journal Article A Life in Peace and War. By Brian Urquhart. (New York: Harper & Row, 1987. ix + 390 pp. ' $25.00.) Get access Charles D. Smith Charles D. Smith San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 670–671, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887987 Published: 01 September 1988
Problems and Prospects of the United Nations
The United Nations system and the future
Journal Article The United Nations system and the future Get access Brian Urquhart Brian Urquhart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 225–231, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622069 Published: 01 April 1989
Beyond the ‘sheriff's posse’
The U. N.'s Crucial Choice
The United Nations in 1992: Problems and opportunities
This article by Brian Urquhart, originally in the form of a Memorial Lecture for Lord Caradon, discusses the opportunities and challenges as well as the problems of the post-Cold War world. It suggests the magnitude and urgency of these problems—political, environmental or population-related—and proposes ways of tackling them, especially through the updating and strengthening of the United Nations. Improvements in the United Nations peace and sec…
The United Nations and the future peace
The end of the Cold War promised a great improvement in the UN's effectiveness as a framework for international peace and security. Yet, it soon became evident that the UN was having great difficulty in coming to grips with countless new conflicts. Several practical measures are suggested for making the UN a more credible and relevant instrument/or a more peaceful and less destructive post‐Cold War world
Military Adviser to the Secretary General: UN Peacekeeping and the Congo Crisis
The Undersecretary General
As United States geared up for war in fall of 1941, Ralph Bunche went to work in Office of Coordinator of Information, assignment that initiated a lifelong career in public service, in both U.S. government and United Nations. Brian Urquhart's laudatory biography of Bunche focuses on public Bunche, especially man who shaped policy and practice in United Nations from 1945 until his death in 1971. Although never serving as secretary general of UN, B…
Ralph Bunche: An American Life
Journal Article Ralph Bunche: An American Life. By Brian Urquhart. (New York: Norton, 1993. 496 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-393-03527-1.) Get access Gerald Horne Gerald Horne University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1367–1368, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081589 Published: 01 December 1994
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle
Selecting the World's CEO: Remembering the Secretaries-General
Ralph Bunche: A Man of the World, but Never at Home
Erskine Childers 1929–1996
Blue Helmets: The Strategy of UN Military Operations
Can the United Nations Adapt to the 21st Century
IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT TO TAKE SERIOUSLY question of whether UN can cope with security problems of 21st century or not. We are seeing, over and over again, how international problems eventually come back to UN because it provides last, and sometimes best, hope of resolving them. And we have some unusually ominous problems to solve.Canada has been one of most consistent, supportive, and unflappable members of United Nations. It has stood with org…
The Next Secretary-General: How to Fill a Job with No Description
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