'The world's most prestigious prize' : the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize /

'The world's most prestigious prize' : the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize /

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Author / Creator:Lundestad, Geir, 1945- author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
©2019
Description:viii, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Nobel Prizes -- History.
Peace -- Awards.
Peace-building.
Nobel Prize winners -- History.
Nobel Prize winners.
Nobel Prizes.
Peace -- Awards.
Peace-building.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11963246
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ISBN:0198841876
9780198841876
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.
Summary: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:
  • 1. The Nobel Peace Prize: Past and Present
  • 'The World's Most Prestigious Prize'
  • Why Does the World Care about the Peace Prize?
  • Why Has It Done So Well?
  • What Influence Has the Peace Prize Had?
  • 2. Alfred Nobel and His Will
  • The Will and Bertha von Suttner's Influence
  • Alfred Nobel and the Norwegian Nobel Committee
  • 3. The Nobel Peace Prize, 1901-1914: Arbitration
  • The Norwegian Nobel Committee before 1914
  • The Dream of Peace through Arbitration
  • Had War Been Rendered Obsolete?
  • Etihu Root's Nobel Lecture
  • Peace Congresses and the Road to War
  • 4. The Nobel Peace Prize, 1919-1939: The League of Nations
  • The Dream of Peace through the League of Nations
  • Norway's Participation
  • The Members of the Nobel Committee during the Interwar Period
  • The First Laureates
  • The Dream of Banning War
  • 1935: Carl von Ossietzky
  • 1936-1939: New Traditional Prizes
  • 5. The Nobel Peace Prize, 1945-2018: The United Nations
  • The Norwegian Nobel Committee after 1945
  • The UN and the Dream of Peace on Earth
  • The Norwegian UN Ideology
  • Many Prizes for the UN System
  • The Breadth of the UN's Work
  • Human Rights Prizes
  • The Peace Prize and Disarmament
  • The Peace Prize and the Environment
  • Why Has the USA Received So Many Peace Prizes?
  • 6. Ten Portraits, 1990-2012
  • Mikhail 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 Xiaobo (2010)
  • The European Union (2012)
  • 7. Conclusions
  • The Past
  • The Future
  • Literature
  • List of Peace Prize Laureates
  • Index
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