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UNESCO and World Heritage Sites
The limits of soft cultural power
Sep 10th 2009
From The Economist print edition
Guarding precious and vulnerable places is one of the better things the UN’s cultural agency does—but it may topple over if it stretches too far

ANYONE who dreams of exercising authority (of a fairly benign sort) over the entire world—with a special remit for the planet’s most beautiful and fragile places—will enjoy perusing the 250 or so pages that contain the latest pronouncements from UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee.(...)
This year’s most dramatic move was a rare decision to strip a place—Dresden and the surrounding Elbe valley—of its status as a “World Heritage Site”: that is, a location deemed to be of universal worth to humanity by virtue of its built environment, ecological importance or both.