Iraq : the human cost of history / edited by Tareq Y. Ismael and William W. Haddad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ismael, Tareq Y.

Haddad, William W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Causes.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

United States.

Physical Description:

vi, 269 p.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The people of Iraq have suffered for more than a decade from the most severe sanctions ever imposed on any nation in history. United Nations' sanctions against Iraq began in August 1990, as an attempt to force Iraq out of Kuwait. This book reveals why the sanctions regime has failed in its most basic aims, and ask serious questions about the real motivations of the powers involved. It explains how, if sanctions had been carefully applied, they could have worked. The massive bombing campaign of 1991destroyed Iraq's social infrastructure. Sanctions should have been modified to meet the post-Gulf War environment. Also, the US and the UK refused to agree that sanctions would be lifted if Iraq complied - left with little incentive to disarm, it is not surprising that Saddam Hussein did not co-operate. Why did the sanctions continue if they did not fulfil their avowed purpose? The contributors argue that the real motives of the US and the UK were much more complex: instead of revolving around violations of human rights, terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation, sanctions may have had more to do with political powerbroking and the danger that Iraq and Iran presented to US hegemony in the oil-rich Middle East. Assessing these and other related questions, the contributors put forward the idea that the current sanctions against Iraq are illegal under international law.

Contents:

Iraq, the United States, and international law : beyond the sanctions / Richard Falk

Power, propaganda and indifference : an explanation of the maintenance of economic sanctions on Iraq despite their human cost / Eric Herring

British policy towards economic sanctions on Iraq, 1990-2002 / Milan Rai

Oil, sanctions, debt and the future / Abbas Alnasrawi

Safeguarding "our" American children by saving "their" Iraqi children : Gandhian transformation of the DIA's genocide planning, assessment, and cover-up documents / Thomas J. Nagy

The U.S. obsession with Iraq and the triumph of militarism / Stephen Zunes

Not quite an Arab Prussia : revisiting some myths on Iraqi exceptionalism / Isam al-Khafaji.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-261) and index.

ISBN:

9786611750183

9781281750181

1281750182

9781849644815

1849644810

9781435660762

1435660765

OCLC:

244352534