UN Intervention Practices in Iraq: A Discursive Approach to International Interventions (Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution)

by Kerstin (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2019

  $141.76

  This book analyses UN intervention practices in Iraq, and develops a deconstructive approach to international interventions.

  Hitherto, analyses of the conflict in Iraq in 2003 mostly establish the UN's role as path-dependent from the US and UK's foreign policy and largely portray its part as that of an (unsuccessful) mediator and fervent (but failed) opponent of international intervention. Analyzing the UN Security Council and the later UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) from 2000 to 2010, this book undoes this path-dependency and puts the UN's relationship with Iraq center-stage. It develops a deconstructive, critical approach that identifies subject construction and reflexivity as central processes of intervention practices and concludes that (non-)intervention is deeply connected to the stabilization of political identities and representations. The book conceptually and empirically demonstrates how the Security Council had already stabilized Iraq as an object of intervention long before the US/UK invasion. It exhibits how the latter allowed the Security Council to re-stabilize its role in Iraq as the legal and ethical counter-weight to the Coalition Forces and, with the deployment of UNAMI, re-format its intervention practices within this context. Using extensive primary data, the book contributes a new perspective on international interventions. The threefold interconnection of the conceptual framework, its methodological operationalization and the thorough empirical analysis make it unique in the field.

  This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, intervention and statebuilding, Middle Eastern studies, and International Relations.