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After over a decade of international engagement in Afghanistan, the Congo, and Sudan, peace is far from secured in those three countries. In The Fog of Peace, Jean-Marie Guéhenno reflects on some of the most difficult questions facing international interventions today. He draws on his experience as the head of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations from 2000-2008, a period that included intense negotiations and crises in Afghanistan, Ira...

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A firsthand reckoning by Jean-Marie Guéhenno, the man who led UN peacekeeping efforts for eight years and has been at the center of all the major crises since the beginning of the 21st century. Guéhenno grapples with the distance between the international community's promise to protect and the reality that our noble aspirations may be beyond our grasp.The author illustrates with personal, concrete examples—from the crises in Afghanistan, Iraq,...

In this highly readable book, Jean-Marie Guehenno argues that the information age undermines our current legal and political systems. With the global community in instantaneous contact, he contends, power no longer operates hierarchically from the top down. Instead, individuals are part of complex networks in which wealth and power stem from the sheer multiplication of connections. This development has serious consequences for democracy as we ...

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