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A Different Kind of War : The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq / H. C. von Sponeck.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782387527
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.5/8209567 22/eng
LOC classification:
  • JZ6373
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Oil-for-Food Programme: An Adequate Humanitarian Exemption? -- Chapter 2 The UN Compensation Commission: Benefit for Some, Deprivation for Others -- Chapter 3 The No-Fly Zones, the Humanitarian Programme and Changed Security in Iraq following Operation Desert Fox -- Chapter 4 The United Nations Special Commission and the UN Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq: Two Units of the Same Organisation? -- Chapter 5 The Government of Iraq, Its People and Their Rights -- Chapter 6 The UN Sanctions Structure: Confrontation, Fragmentation, Conclusions -- Postscript -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Names
Summary: At a time when the international community is again threatening some countries with sanctions, this book comes as a warning. It should be mandatory reading for all those politicians and their foreign-policy advisors who continue to consider sanctions an effective form of policy. The author not only offers us a critical, lucid, and well-informed survey of political developments in Iraq, but also a heart-rending account of the suffering of the Iraqi people. It was they who bore the brunt of the 13-year's sanctions, while the members of Saddam's regime continued to live in luxury and accumulate huge fortunes. H.-C. von Sponeck, the former “UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq,” explores the UN's sanction policies against Iraq, their consequences, and the domestic conditions during this period. His extensive research is based on previously unpublished internal UN documents and discussions with UN decision makers (such as General Secretary Kofi Annan), Iraqi officials and politicians (including Saddam Hussein), and ordinary Iraqis. The author’s findings question who really benefited from the program, what role the UN Security Council and its various member states played, and whether there were then and are today alternatives to the UN's Iraq policies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Oil-for-Food Programme: An Adequate Humanitarian Exemption? -- Chapter 2 The UN Compensation Commission: Benefit for Some, Deprivation for Others -- Chapter 3 The No-Fly Zones, the Humanitarian Programme and Changed Security in Iraq following Operation Desert Fox -- Chapter 4 The United Nations Special Commission and the UN Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq: Two Units of the Same Organisation? -- Chapter 5 The Government of Iraq, Its People and Their Rights -- Chapter 6 The UN Sanctions Structure: Confrontation, Fragmentation, Conclusions -- Postscript -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Names

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At a time when the international community is again threatening some countries with sanctions, this book comes as a warning. It should be mandatory reading for all those politicians and their foreign-policy advisors who continue to consider sanctions an effective form of policy. The author not only offers us a critical, lucid, and well-informed survey of political developments in Iraq, but also a heart-rending account of the suffering of the Iraqi people. It was they who bore the brunt of the 13-year's sanctions, while the members of Saddam's regime continued to live in luxury and accumulate huge fortunes. H.-C. von Sponeck, the former “UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq,” explores the UN's sanction policies against Iraq, their consequences, and the domestic conditions during this period. His extensive research is based on previously unpublished internal UN documents and discussions with UN decision makers (such as General Secretary Kofi Annan), Iraqi officials and politicians (including Saddam Hussein), and ordinary Iraqis. The author’s findings question who really benefited from the program, what role the UN Security Council and its various member states played, and whether there were then and are today alternatives to the UN's Iraq policies.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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