A Conversation With Kofi Annan

Excerpts from “A Conversation with Kofi Annan” in honor of the publication of his book Interventions: A Life in War and Peace. The former Secretary-General of the United Nations discusses the UN’s relationship with America, its role in interventions around the world, Syria, China, and more.

Interviewed by Richard Stengel, Managing Editor of TIME, at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, February 8, 2013, in an event presented with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace