Brian Urquhart

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations.

His books include Hammarskjøld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. He also is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

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Using ends to justify means

EssayTHE FIRST FOUR years of the 21st century have produced enough strange and unsettling developments to haunt a far longer period. They include the September 11 attacks and widespread terrorism by suicide bombing; the descent into savage despair in...

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