UN Intervention Practices in Iraq

<p>This book analyzes UN intervention discourses and practices in Iraq and develops a deconstructive approach to international interventions. </p><p>Hitherto most analyses of the conflict in Iraq in 2003 have established the UN’s role as path-dependent on the foreign policy of the US and the UK and largely portrayed it as a mediator and fervent 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. Using extensive primary data the book contributes a new perspective on international interventions. </p><p>This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies intervention and statebuilding Middle Eastern studies and International Relations.</p>