'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

Geir Lundestad

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

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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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