Disarming Iraq

Hans Blix recounts the events leading up to the declaration of war on Iraq in March 2003, looking back to Saddam Hussein's long wrangle with the international community since the first Gulf War and forward to the implications for international security in the aftermath of the war just ended. He also asks and answers key questions including: Could the war have been prevented? Was it inevitable? Does Iraq have weapons of mass destruction? Why couldn't the US and the UK secure the backing of the member states of the UN Security Council? And: What can be learnt from the Iraq war for the prevention of the spread and use of WMDs in the future?

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'This is, throughout, a very cool and clear critique of Britain and America's insuperable rush to war ... from the man who knew better than most that Iraq posed not the remotest threat to you and me, nor indeed to the "stability" of the Middle East. Blix demolishes the legal arguments for war' Rod Liddle, Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Hans Blix
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2005
• EAN: 9780747573593
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-7359-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science