The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199238685 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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geopol said Essential reading on Iraq and the United Nations. Iraq has been on the United Nations Security Council's agenda for a quarter century. As noted UN expert David Malone shows, their tempestuous relationship has been a two-way street: just as the UN has changed Iraq, so Iraq has reshaped the UN.In many ways, Iraq has been the organization's greatest challenge - dividing the UN's membership, overwhelming its staff, flaunting its covenants, manipulating its inspectors, and engulfing it in two bloody conf
A scholar of the political economy of violent conflict and of US foreign policy, he is the author of numerous books and articles. He is the co-author of Law & Practice of the United Nations (OUP, 2007).. From 1998 to 2004 he served as President of the International Peace Academy in New York. Malone is Canada's High Commissioner for India and Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal,
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'. 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. Spanning the last quarter century, The International Struggleover Iraq examines the impact the United Nations Security Council has had on Iraq--and Iraq's impact on the Security Council. Growing paralysis led eventually to deadlock in the Council in 2002, with the result that it was sidelined during the 2003 Coalition invasion. The story is a fascinating one. 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. Iraq has dominated international headlines in recent years, but its controversial role in international affairs goes back much further. T
John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs"A long-overdue contextualized, balanced history of international conflicts surrounding Iraq since 1980. Highly recommended."--CHOICE. An important addition to a literature which is too often shallow and one-sided. "A uniquely clear and lucid account of the workings and background of the UN Security Council's fateful refusal to legitimize US military action against Iraq in 2003 and of the international fall-out of Operation Iraqi Freedom"--Sir Brian Urquhart, New York Review of Books"An illuminating account of the 25 years of tangled Security Council involvement with Iraq a fascinating portrait of the changing and often conflicting uses of the Security Council by the major powers This book is essential reading for those who want to use the lessons of the S