Intervention: The ‘Humanitarian Exception’ and the Problem of Abuse in the Case of Iraq* ALEX J. BELL AMY School of Political Science and International Studies‚ University of Queensland This article investigates the ethics of intervention and explores the decision to invade Iraq. It begins by arguing that while positive international law provides an important framework for understanding and debating the legitimacy of war‚ it does not cover the full spectrum of moral
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Iraq is an very rich country underneath the war ridden wasteland it is commonly viewed as today. The land is plentiful with natural resources and fertile soil‚ but war is destroying the country and its population. Not only is the Iraq war extremely devastating to the individual country‚ but the opposing terrorist groups‚ (especially ISIS)‚ have created a new type of psychological warfare for the world in the form of extreme and constant terror in other countries. Iraq’s intense foreign influence
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right to go into Iraq based solely on a theory that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. According to the Just War Theory‚ war is permissible only to confront “a real and certain danger‚" to protect innocent life‚ to preserve conditions necessary for decent human existence and to secure basic human rights. • Competent authority: Just War Theory states that “War must be declared by those with responsibility for public order‚ not by private groups or individuals.” The War in Iraq was • Comparative
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primary motivation behind their fight against ISIS. However‚ defeating ISIS in Iraq will only be possible if the government can successfully ameliorate the social‚ political‚ and economic discrepancies that plague the nation. This can be done through economic development through foreign investment‚ widespread social inclusion‚ and unity among the people (Al-Maliki 2014). As stated above‚ ISIS was able to form in Iraq due to the power vacuum created by the removal of all Sunni Muslims from the government
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Iran-Iraq War The Iran-Iraq war started in the 1980s and continued till 1988 making it the longest conventional war after the second Sino-Japanese War(1). It officially began on Sept. 22‚ 1980‚ with an Iraqi land and air invasion of western Iran(1). The Iran-Iraq War was multifaceted and included religious schisms‚ border disputes‚ and political differences. The war broke hostilities ranging from conflicts between the religious pacts of Sunni-verses-Shia and Arab-verses-Persians‚ to a personal
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Six months ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq‚ the United States had very little incisive evidence and relied greatly on analytic reviews and judgment in assessing what it knew about Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction and their WMD Programs. This is according to declassified U.S. intelligence report. The September 5‚ 2002 report from the Glen Shaffer‚ (which was initially classified as secret) showed the U.S. knew about Iraq’s internal expertise in building nuclear weapons but failed to mention
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Apply the system-level‚ state-level and individual-level of analysis to the 2003 decision to go to war with Iraq. Which do you believe is the best level for analyzing why the US went to war with Iraq? Systems analysts believe that any system operates in predictable ways--that there are behaviors that the countries usually follow. Although each of us has free will‚ each of us is also part of many overlapping systems that influence our behavior and make it reasonably‚ although far from perfectly
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Highlight three main points from the book “The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq.” Thomas E. Ricks 2. In the book “The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq.” Mr. Ricks‚ who covered the military for The Washington Post from 2000 to 2008‚ takes up the story where he left off in his book “Fiasco.” This volume recounts how Iraq came close to unraveling in 2006‚ how the Bush administration finally conceded it was off course‚ and how a
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countries from Middle East: Qatar and Iraq. These two nations are directly opposed‚ first by Human Development report. In fact‚ Qatar is considered as a very high human developed country‚ it is ranked at the 36 th place on a list of 186 countries. Contrariwise‚ Iraq is considered as a medium human developed country‚ ranked 131th. What can explain this difference? Qatar is a recent country which has known a very quick expansion. Iraq just got out from war and has to be rebuilt. First of all the
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In Iraq‚ the Kurds have been unwelcome by the governments for many years. As many as 182‚000 Kurds were killed by Saddan Hussein‚ who used chemical weapons and concentration camps against them. The Western world must support an independent Kurdish state as it is responsible for the addition of the Kurds to Iraq. After the first world war‚ multiple Ottoman provinces were annexed by Britain to the newly formed Iraq as a way of main taining religious balance‚ but these predominately Sunni Kurds were
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