'The world's most prestigious prize' : the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize
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'The world's most prestigious prize' : the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize
Oxford University Press, 2019
1st ed
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"The world's most prestigious prize" : the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index
Contents of Works
- The Nobel Peace Prize : past and present
- Alfred Nobel and his will
- The Nobel Peace Prize, 1901-1914 : arbitration
- The Nobel Peace Prize, 1919-1939 : The League of Nations
- The Nobel Peace Prize, 1945-2018 : The United Nations
- Ten portraits, 1990-2012. Mikhael Gorbachev (1990), Aung San Suu Kyi (1991), Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk (1993), Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin (1994), Kim Dae-jung (2000), The UN and Kofi Annan (2001), Jimmy Carter (2002), Barack H. Obama (2009), Liu Xiabo (2010), The European Union (2012)
- Conclusions
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel peace prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the prize, as well as its highs and lows, triumphs and disasters, over the last one-hundred-and-twenty years. But more than that, the book also draws on the author's unique insight during his twenty-five years as Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. It reveals the real story of all the laureates of that period - some of them among the most controversial in the history of the prize (Gorbachev, Arafat, Peres and Rabin, Mandela and De Klerk, Obama, and Liu Xiaobo) - and exactly why they came to receive the prize.
Despite all that has been written about the Nobel Peace Prize, this is the first-ever account written by a prominent insider in the Nobel system.
Table of Contents
Preface
1: Introduction
2: Alfred Nobel and the Will
3: The Nobel Peace Prize, 1901-1914, Arbitration
4: The Nobel Peace Prize, 1919-39, The League of Nations
5: The Nobel Peace Prize, 1945-2018, The United Nations
6: Ten portraits, 1990- 2012
7: Conclusions
Literature
List of Peace Prize laureates
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