ABSTRACT
Peter Lengyel was born in Hungary, raised in Australia, educated in England and the United States, and lived beautifully in France. Because of his worldliness, and his ability to navigate a variety of languages with remarkable ease and fluency, Peter Lengyel was a natural candidate to serve as editor of the International Social Science Journal—a UN publication. On the presumption that all systems are concerned with the threat of war, famine, and crime, Lengyel treated these large-scale issues with broad, impressionistic strokes, and some statistical embellishments where possible. Over and against the pleasant fictions of "dependency theory", a credo adopted by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as its own, Lengyel began a review of the administrative apparatus of UNESCO itself. He understood the rise of ideology within the organization as an effort to disguise its growing antipathy to western values, and especially to the United States.
