Un Intervention Practices in Iraq: A Discursive Approach to International Interventions

By Eppert Kerstin and Kerstin Eppert

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

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.

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138352829
• ISBN13: 9781138352827
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"