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| Title: | Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations and Africa |
| Author: | Melber, Henning |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244) |
| Volume: | 39 |
| Issue: | 131 |
| Pages: | 151-159 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
| Subjects: | UN international politics 1950-1959 |
| About person: | Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2012.659013 |
| Abstract: | During Dag Hammarskjöld's term in office as Secretary-General of the UN (from April 1953 until his untimely death in September 1961), the world organization underwent a transformation from an almost exclusively Western, post-Second-World-War body into a more global governance institution. This was due to the impact of a growing number of newly independent countries, not least from the African continent, on international policy and geostratic interests during the bipolar times of the so-called superpower rivalry. Against all odds Hammarskjöld defended the autonomy of the office vis-à-vis the efforts by the big powers to exert their dominance through the UN. The present paper recalls some of the virtues and convictions uniquely represented among those in this office by the Swedish diplomat, amongst others during the Congo crisis. The way Hammarskjöld defined and executed his duties, particularly with regard to the people of Africa, can undoubtedly be seen as an act of international solidarity of a nature that is often lacking today. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
