Invisible War

The United States and the Iraq Sanctions

Автор: Joy Gordon

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Harvard University Press

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The economic sanctions imposed on Iraq from 1990 to 2003 were the most comprehensive and devastating...

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Автор

Joy Gordon

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2012

страници

376

EAN

9780674064089

ISBN

0674064089

Enbook ID

04635689

Издател

Harvard University Press

Теглоt

642

Размери

156 x 235 x 24

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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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