The economic sanctions imposed on Iraq from 1990 to 2003 were the most comprehensive and devastating of any established in the name of international governance. The sanctions, coupled with the bombing campaign of 1991, brought about the near collapse of Iraq's infrastructure and profoundly compromised basic conditions necessary to sustain life.
In a sharp indictment of U.S. policy, Joy Gordon examines the key role the nation played in shaping the sanctions, whose harsh strictures resulted in part from U.S. definitions of "dual use" and "weapons of mass destruction," and claims that everything from water pipes to laundry detergent to child vaccines could produce weapons. Drawing on internal UN documents, confidential minutes of closed meetings, and interviews with foreign diplomats and U.S. officials, Gordon details how the United States not only prevented critical humanitarian goods from entering Iraq but also undermined attempts at reform; unilaterally overrode the UN weapons inspectors; and manipulated votes in the Security Council. In every political, legal, and bureaucratic domain, the deliberate policies of the United States ensured the continuation of Iraq's catastrophic condition.
Provocative and sure to stir debate, this book lays bare the damage that can be done by unchecked power in our institutions of international governance.
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Publisher
Harvard University PressYear
2010Print ISBN
9780674064089
9780674035713
eBook ISBN
9780674053908
INVISIBLE
WAR
60
determine
its
duration,
as
well
as
impose
its
will
in
many
regards
on
the
implementation
of
the
sanctions
by
the
Security
Council’s
661
Commit-
tee.
This
was
the
case
even
in
the
face
of
reluctance
or
outright
opposi-
tion
by
some
or
even
most
of
the
members
of
the
Security
Council.
The
procedural
maneuvering
of
the
United
States,
along
with
measures
such
as
vetoing
food
shipments,
were
all
directed
toward
the
same
outcome:
doing
as
much
damage
as
possible
to
Iraq’s
economy,
in
every
regard,
however
indiscriminate
it
might
be.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. The Policy of Containment
- Chapter 2. How the Sanctions Worked
- Chapter 3. The Influence of the United States
- Chapter 4. The Problem of Holds
- Chapter 5. The Magnitude of the Catastrophe
- Chapter 6. Tensions at the United Nations
- Chapter 7. The Role of the Iraqi Government
- Chapter 8. Congress and the Sanctions
- Chapter 9. The Oil for Food Scandal
- Chapter 10. Inside the U.S. Policy
- Chapter 11. International Law and the Sanctions
- Chapter 12. The Moral and Political Questions
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
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