| Description |
viii, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: A World Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction -- The Importance of Chemical Weapons Abolition (Speech, Geneva Forum on the Worldwide Destruction of Chemical Weapons, 26 June 2003) -- Message Sent to the Second Rally for International Disarmament: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (6--8 May 2006) -- The Nuclear Threat (Wall Street Journal, 31 January 2007) -- Overcoming Nuclear Dangers (Speech at Conference in Rome, 16 April 2009) -- Disarmament Lessons from the Chemical Weapons Convention (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 16 June 2009) -- Two First Steps on Nuclear Weapons (New York Times, 25 September 2009) -- Resetting the Nuclear Disarmament Agenda (Speech at the United Nations in Geneva, 5 October 2009) -- The Ice Has Broken (New York Times, 22 April 2010) -- Address sent to the Nobel Peace Laureates Forum (12--14 November 2010) -- The Senate's Next Task: Ratifying the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (New York Times, 28 December 2010) -- The Green Agenda -- |
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Contents note continued: After Copenhagen: A New Leadership Challenge (GCI website, 22 December 2009) -- Let's Get Serious About Climate Talks (New York Times, 3 November 2010) -- Water for Peace -- A New Glasnost for Our Future: The Right to Water and Dignified Life (Speech, World Urban Forum, 13 September 2004) -- Our Common Future (Speech, La Plata Basin Dialogues, 12 September 2005) -- Access to Water is Not a Privilege, It's a Right! (The Optimist, 2005) -- All of Us Should Be Ashamed (Financial Times, 21 March 2007) -- Climate Change and Water Security: Solving the Equation (Project Syndicate, 6 June 2007) -- Call for Global Law on Access to Water. Gorbachev leads campaign for UN convention (By Fiona Harvey, Financial Times, 12 June 2007) -- Water for Peace --- Peace for Water (Foreword to publication, 2008) -- Tomorrow May Be Too Late to Address Water Crisis (Speech, ̀€Peace with Water' conference, 12 February 2009) -- The Right to Water (New York Times, 16 July 2010) -- |
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Contents note continued: Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev (CSA-World, Autumn 2010) -- pt. Two TRIBUTES TO GORBACHEV -- Contributors -- Ruud Lubbers -- Mario Soares -- George H.W. Bush -- Margaret Thatcher -- Frederik Willem de Klerk -- Shimon Peres -- Ricardo Lagos -- Achim Steiner -- Federico Mayor Zaragoza -- Maurice Strong -- Ismail Serageldin -- Sergei Kapitsa -- Professor Sir David King -- Jean-Michel Cousteau -- Steven Rockefeller -- Martin Lees -- Ted Turner -- Jan Kulczyk -- Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel -- Diane and Charlie Gallagher -- Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp -- Diane Meyer Simon -- Shoo Iwasaki -- Guido Pollice -- Giorgio Armani -- Sam Cheow -- Jean-Christophe Babin -- Alexander Likhotal |
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Contents note continued: The New Path to Peace and Sustainability (El Pais, 30 January 2004) -- A New Glasnost for Global Sustainability (The Optimist, April 2004) -- Energy Shift, NOW! (Forum in Barcelona, 2 June 2004) -- The Third Pillar of Sustainable Development (Foreword to Toward a Sustainable World: The Earth Charter in Action, 2005) -- The Lessons of Chernobyl (Interview, The Optimist, April 2006) -- Interview with The House Magazine (2006) -- Antarctica: The Global Warning (Foreword to book, October 2007) -- The World Food Crisis (Rossiskaya Gazeta daily, 13 May 2008) -- Keynote Address to the Club of Rome (26 October 2009) -- Tear Down This Wall! And Save the Planet (The Times, 9 November 2009) -- Failure in Copenhagen would be ̀€catastrophic risk': Gorbachev (Interview, Agence France-Presse, 3 December 2009) -- Playing Russian Roulette with Climate Change (Project Syndicate, 3 December 2009) -- We Have a Real Emergency (New York Times, 9 December 2009) -- |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. One THE WORDS OF GORBACHEV -- The World in Transition --- End of the Cold War -- Issyk-Kul Forum (Speech, 20 October 1986) -- Murmansk Initiative (Speech, 1 October 1987) -- Freedom of Choice (Speech to 43rd UN General Assembly Session, 7 December 1988) -- Europe as a Common Home (Council of Europe, 6 July 1989) -- Environment and Development for Survival (Address to the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders, Moscow, 19 January 1990) -- The Grim Legacy of Old (Speech at 28th Communist Party Congress, 2 July 1990) -- Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (10 December 1990) -- The Nobel Lecture (Speech, 5 June 1991) -- Final Televised Address as President of the USSR (25 December 1991) -- Speech at the Opening of the Fourth International Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders (20 April 1993) -- What Made Me a Crusader (Time special issue, November 1997) -- Nature Will Not Wait (World Watch magazine, March/April 2001) -- |
| Notes |
"This anthology, featuring select speeches and writings, as well as tributes from political contemporaries and partners in the environmental and peace movements, has been compiled by Green Cross International to celebrate Gorbachev's 80th birthday"--P. [4] of cover |
| Subject |
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931- -- Political and social views.
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Cold War -- Decision making.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Russian.
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World politics -- 1985-1995 -- Sources.
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World politics -- 21st century -- Sources.
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| SUBJECT |
USSR -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004555
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| Author |
Green Cross International.
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| ISBN |
1905570309 (hbk.) |
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9781905570300 (hbk.) |
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(paperback046Z) |
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