The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005OUP Oxford, 2006 M06 22 - 416 pages Iraq has dominated international headlines in recent years, but its controversial role in international affairs goes back much further. The key arena for these power politics over Iraq has been the United Nations Security Council. Spanning the last quarter century,The International Struggle over Iraq examines the impact the United Nations Security Council has had on Iraq - and Iraq's impact on the Security Council. The story is a fascinating one. Beginning in 1980, in the crucible of the Iran-Iraq War, the Council found a common voice as a peacemaker after the divisions of the cold war. That peacemaking role was cemented when a UN-mandated force expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991, offering a glimpse of a new role for the UN in the 'New World Order'. But unilateralism soon set in, as the Security Council struggled under the weight and bureaucratic demands of its changing identity. The Security Council gradually abandoned its traditional political and military tools for the legal-regulatory approach, but was unable to bridge the gap between those who believed allegations of Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction and those who didn't. Growing paralysis led eventually to deadlock in the Council in 2002, with the result that it was sidelined during the 2003 Coalition invasion. This relegation, when combined with the loss of some of its best and brightest in a massive truck bomb in Iraq later that year, precipitated a deep crisis of confidence. The future role of the UN Security Council has now, once again, become uncertain. The paperback edition contains a substantial new preface covering recent developments. Drawing on the author's unparalleled access to UN insiders, this volume offers radical new insights into one of the most persistent crises in international affairs, and the different roles the world's central peace-making forum has played in it. |
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Page xiii
... April 2007 might suggest otherwise.20 To cover the withdrawal of combatants from the wreckage of the Israeli–Hizbollah fighting in 2006, the Council reconfigured and significantly expanded the presence of its previously ineffective ...
... April 2007 might suggest otherwise.20 To cover the withdrawal of combatants from the wreckage of the Israeli–Hizbollah fighting in 2006, the Council reconfigured and significantly expanded the presence of its previously ineffective ...
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... April 2007. 3. The military 'surge' tactic was reportedly complemented later by a US political strategy for Iraq. See Ann Scott Tyson, 'New Strategy for War Stresses Iraqi Politics: US Aims to Oust Sectarians from Key Roles', Washington ...
... April 2007. 3. The military 'surge' tactic was reportedly complemented later by a US political strategy for Iraq. See Ann Scott Tyson, 'New Strategy for War Stresses Iraqi Politics: US Aims to Oust Sectarians from Key Roles', Washington ...
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... April 2007 and Rami G. Khoury, 'Where Columnist David Brooks Went Wrong', Daily Star (Beirut), 12 April 2007. The report, supported and published by the US Institute of Peace, can be drawn from www.usip.org/isg/iraq study group report ...
... April 2007 and Rami G. Khoury, 'Where Columnist David Brooks Went Wrong', Daily Star (Beirut), 12 April 2007. The report, supported and published by the US Institute of Peace, can be drawn from www.usip.org/isg/iraq study group report ...
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... April 2007. SCR 1718 of 14 October 2006. The Sudanese Government's decision in October 2006 to expel outspoken UN envoy in Khartoum Jan Pronk excited particular outrage, although the deaths in Darfur represent the strongest indictment ...
... April 2007. SCR 1718 of 14 October 2006. The Sudanese Government's decision in October 2006 to expel outspoken UN envoy in Khartoum Jan Pronk excited particular outrage, although the deaths in Darfur represent the strongest indictment ...
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... April 2004 for five weeks of reading and developing a skeleton of this book. To theWardenandFellowsofthisrelaxed,civilized,andwelcomingcommunity, myheartfeltthanks.ProfessorAndrewHurrellmadethispossible,andtohim, as always, I am very ...
... April 2004 for five weeks of reading and developing a skeleton of this book. To theWardenandFellowsofthisrelaxed,civilized,andwelcomingcommunity, myheartfeltthanks.ProfessorAndrewHurrellmadethispossible,andtohim, as always, I am very ...
Contents
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Brokering Peace in the IranIraq War | 22 |
Responding to Iraqi Aggression Against Kuwait | 54 |
Humanitarian Interventions and NoFly Zones | 84 |
Economic Sanctions and the OilforFood Program | 114 |
UNSCOM UNMOVIC and the Disarming of Iraq | 152 |
From 911 to August 19 2003 | 185 |
Annus Horribilis and a Vital Role | 222 |
Serious Consequences How TwentyFive Years of Involvement with Iraq has Changed the Security Council | 265 |
UN SCRs Pertaining to Iraq | 309 |
Iraq and the Security CouncilA Chronology | 321 |
Bibliography | 338 |
Index | 369 |
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Page 88 - Iraq allow immediate access by international humanitarian organizations to all those in need of assistance in all parts of Iraq...
Page 112 - Letter dated 7 October 2001 from the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council, UN SCOR, 56th Sess., UN Doc.
Page xxiv - ICJ International Court of Justice ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross ICTR International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ICTY International...
Page 197 - Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance — not even today — of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace.
Page 362 - Testimony Before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives...
Page 67 - We have a vision of a new partnership of nations that transcends the Cold War: a partnership based on consultation, cooperation, and collective action, especially through international and regional organizations; a partnership united by principle and the rule of law...
Page 37 - Iran and Iraq observe an immediate cease-fire, discontinue all military actions on land, at sea and in the air, and withdraw all forces to the internationally recognized boundaries without delay...
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