Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy Audiobook (Free)

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The entire year is 1997, Michael Soussan, a fresh-faced young graduate occupies a new job on the U.N.’s Oil-for-Food plan, the biggest humanitarian operation in the organization’s background. His mission is definitely to help Iraqi civilians survive the damaging impact of economic sanctions that were imposed following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

As a gaffe-prone beginner in a world of private taboos, Soussan problems to negotiate about Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy the increasing paranoia of his incomprehensible employer and the inner workings of 1 from the world’s notoriously organic bureaucracies. But mainly because he learns more about the vast sums of money flowing through this program, it turns into clear that isn’t what it seems. Soussan turns into conscious that Saddam Hussein is definitely extracting unlawful kickbacks, a breakthrough that models him on a collision course with the organization’s command. On March 8, 2004, within a Wall structure Street Journal op-ed, Soussan becomes the first insider to demand ‘an independent investigation’ of the U.N.’s dealings with Saddam Hussein. One week afterwards, a humiliated Kofi Annan appointed Paul Volcker to lead a group of sick worldwide investigators, whose results resulted in a huge selection of prosecutions in multiple countries, many of which are still ongoing.

Backstabbing for Beginners reaches once a witty tale of one man’s political arriving of age, and a stinging indictment of the hypocrisy that prevailed in the centre of one of the world’s most idealistic institutions.