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.
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