The Iraq Crisis and World Order : Structural , Institutional and Normative Challenges 1st Edition

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The Iraq war was a multiple assault on the foundations and rules of the existing UN-centred world order. It called into questions the adequacy of the existing institutions for articulating global norms and enforcing compliance with the demands of the international community. The emergence of the United States as the sole superpower after the end of the Cold War distorted the structural balance in the UN schema. The United Nations is the main embodiment of the principle of multilateralism and the principal; vehicle for the pursuit of multilateral goals. The United Nations is the fount of international authority, but the United States has global power, soft as well as hard. Progress towards a world of a rules-based, civilized international order requires that US force be put to the service of lawful international authority. This book examines these major normative and structural challenges from a number of different perspectives.ContentsPart I: Framing the Issues Iraq’s challenge to world order Lines in the sand: The United Nations in Iraq, 1980-2001 Part II: Structural and Normative Challenges The unipolar concert: Unipolarity and multilateralism in the age ofglobalization International peace and security and state sovereignty: Contesting norms and norm entrepreneurs The world says no: The global movement against war in Iraq Part III: Perspective from within the region Iraq and world order: A Lebanese perspective Iraq and world order: A Turkish perspective Iran’s assessment of the Iraq crisis and the post-9/11 international order The Iraq crisis and world order: An Israeli perspective Egypt and the Iraq war Reactions in the Muslim world to the Iraq conflict Part IV: External actor perspectives The United States and the United Nations in light of wars on terrorism and Iraq Baghdad to Baghdad: The United Kingdom’s odyssey Explaining France’s opposition to the war against Iraq Iraq and world order: A Russian perspective Iraq and world order: A German perspective Avoiding a strategic failure in the aftermath of the Iraq war: Partnership in peacebuilding Iraq and world order: A Latin American perspective Iraq and world order: A Pakistani perspective Iraq and world order: A perspective on NATO’s relevance The Iraq crisis and world order: A perspective from the European Union Quicksand? The United Nations in Iraq, 2001-2005 Part V: International legal and doctrimal issues The war in Iraq as illegal and illegitimate Legitimacy as an assessment of existing legal standards: The case of the 2003 Iraq war The multinational action in Iraq and international law Iraq and the social logic of international security Justifying the Iraq war as a humanitarian intervention: The cure is worse than the disease The responsibility to protect and the war on Saddam Hussein Post-war relations between occupying powers and the United Nations “Common enemies”: The United States, Israel and the world crisis Part VI: Conclusion Structural and normative challengesAbout the AuthorsRamesh Thakur is Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan and an Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu is a Faculty member at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland.