1st Edition

UN Intervention Practices in Iraq A Discursive Approach to International Interventions

By Kerstin Eppert Copyright 2019
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction

Part I: Theory and Methodology

2. Researching Interventions as Discourses and Practices

3. Deconstructing Knowledge Discourses and Security Practices in UN Interventions

Part II: Analysis and Interpretation

4. Stabilizing intervention in Iraq: UN Security Council 2000-03

5. Contested Subject Constructions in the Council and UNAMI: Shaping the UNAMI from 2003 to 2010

6. Conclusion

Biography

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.