A solitary war a diplomat's chronicle of the Iraq war and its lessons /
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Golden, Colo. :
Fulcrum,
c2008.
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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.