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The United Nations' Celebrity Diplomacy
- SAIS Review of International Affairs
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 25, Number 1, Winter-Spring 2005
- pp. 175-185
- 10.1353/sais.2005.0001
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The United Nations' increasing resort to celebrity diplomacy under Secretary General Kofi Annan is another dimension of a U.N. propaganda project that attempts to discursively construct a U.N. version of world order via shorthand means: by not offending governments, especially powerful ones; by studiously avoiding being based on impact research; and by promoting universality as the favored approach to internationalism.