Un Intervention Practices in Iraq - A Discursive Approach to International Interventions

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.

List 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

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.

Summary

This book analyses UN intervention discourses and practices in Iraq and develops a deconstructive approach to international interventions.

Product details

• Authors: Kerstin Eppert, Kerstin (Bielefeld University Eppert, Kerstin, Eppert Kerstin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781138352827
• ISBN: 978-1-138-35282-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution; Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Iraq, International institutions, Peace studies & conflict resolution, United Nations & Un Agencies