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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 the 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.

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Author:   Tareq Y. Ismael ,  William W. Haddad
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780745321486

ISBN 10:   0745321488
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   20 November 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Iraqi Question In World Politics by Tareq Ismael 1. Iraq, The United States, And International Law: Beyond The Sanctions by Richard Falk 2. Power, Propaganda And Indifference: An Explanation Of The Maintenance Of Economic Sanctions On Iraq Despite Their Human Cost by Eric Herring 3. British Policy Towards Economic Sanctions On Iraq, 1990-2002 by Milan Rai 4. Oil, Sanctions, Debt And The Future by Abbas Alnasrawi 5. Safeguarding 'Our' American Children By Saving 'Their' Iraqi Children: Gandhian Transformation Of The CIA’s Genocide Planning, Assessment, And Cover-Up Documents by Thomas J. Nagy 6. The U.S. Obsession With Iraq And The Triumph Of Militarism by Stephen Zunes 7. Not Quite An Arab Prussia: Revisiting Some Myths On Iraqi Exceptionalism by Isam Al Khafaji Index

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The contributors to this volume include academics and human rights campaigners. they reveal why the sanctions regime failed in its most basis aims, and ask serious questions about the real motivations of the powers involved, notably the UK and US. -- Oxfam This book is a devastating critique of the sanctions regime imposed by the United Nations on Iraq in 1990. -- Journal of Commonwealth Lawyers' Association

Author Information

Tareq Y. Ismael is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada and President of the International Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University. His most recent works include Middle Cultural Cleansing in Iraq (Pluto, 2009), The Iraqi Predicament (Pluto, 2004) and Iraq (Pluto, 2003). William W. Haddad is Professor and Chair of the Department of History, California State University, Fullerton. For over a decade, he was closely associated with Arab Studies Quarterly, serving as Editor-in-Chief from 1995-1998. He is co-editor of Iraq (Pluto Press, 2003).

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