Suzanne Massie their jointly written book, "Journey." "Journey" followed her husband's 1967 book, "Nicholas and Alexandra," a biography of the last Emperor and Empress of Russia whose son also was born with hemophilia. Massie subsequently married Seymour Papert. Reagan first became interested in Massie when he read her book "Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia." She eventually visited the White House where she became an informal messenger between the President and Mikhail Gorbachev and his administration. She also asked Reagan to learn the now famous Russian phrase ""Doveryai, no proveryai,"" which translates as "Trust, but verify." Her importance in
Criticism of the United Nations presented evidence, albeit circumstantial, that international activism – mostly spearheaded by the UN – has been the main cause of the decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War or due to the fact the US and USSR were no longer pumping up oppressive governments after the Cold war ended. The bureaucratic dimension of the UN has been a cause for frustration with the organization. In 1994, former special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN to Somalia Mohamed Sahnoun published "Somalia: The Missed Opportunities", a book in which he analyses the reasons for the failure of