UN Intervention Practices in Iraq: A Discursive Approach to International Interventions / Edition 1

by Kerstin Eppert

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138352827
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/05/2019
Series:	Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kerstin Eppert is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University, Germany. She holds a PhD in sociology.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Researching Interventions as Discourses and Practices 3. Deconstructing Knowledge Discourses and Security Practices in UN Interventions 4. Stabilizing intervention in Iraq: UN Security Council 2000-2003 5. Contested Subject Constructions in the Council and UNAMI: Shaping the UNAMI from 2003 to 2010 6. Conclusion