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Author | : E. Lauterpacht |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780521463089 |
This volume of documents relates to the legal aspects of the international crisis arising out of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1996.
Author | : Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Of special interest is the exploration of the implications of the war for Japan, Germany, Russia, and Europe.
Author | : Majid Khadduri |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199923868 |
For most Americans, the war against Iraq lingers in memory as a vast morality play, a drama offering ready made heroes and villains: a glowering dictator in military uniform, hapless Kuwaiti refugees with tales of persecution, plucky pilots with high-tech wizardry, and a defiant American president, ringing Churchillian as he drew a line in the sand. But this characterization of the war is greatly oversimplified, a one-dimensional portrait, lacking in context and nuance. In War in the Gulf, 1990 91, eminent scholars Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb paint a very different picture, one that brings historical depth to the portrait, and displays the actions of many of the participants in a new and revealing light. Khadduri and Ghareeb offer a far more accurate and complex portrait of the Iraq-Kuwait conflict, providing a wealth of background information not readily available before. They made a distinction between the differences between Iraq and Kuwait over frontiers, territory, and sovereignty and the method pursued by Iraqi leaders to resolve those differences. They explore, for instance, the history of relations between Iraq and Kuwait, revealing that Kuwait had once been a part of Basra (in southern Iraq) during the Ottoman rule, and only became a separate country while under British control (it was the British in fact who drew the much-disputed boundary line between Iraq and Kuwait). Khadduri and Ghareeb describe the many decades of struggle to resolve the boundary issue, examining the repeated attempts by other Arab states to mediate according to Islamic traditions of consultation and peaceful resolution within the faith. The authors also show how Saddam Husayn's war with Iran exacerbated the boundary tensions. Because of the decade-long war, Iraq badly needed oil revenue to repay wartime loans and to rebuild, but Kuwait persisted in pumping far beyond its OPEC quota, driving down prices, and costing Iraq billions of dollars of revenue. The book reveals how Kuwait spurned Arab attempts to mediate this clash over oil prices as well as the longstanding boundary dispute, frustrating efforts to resolve this crisis by peaceful means. In one particularly interesting section, the book examines the diplomatic talks during the early summer of 1990, both among various Arab nations (most notably, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Kuwait), and with Saddam Husayn and the United States (they show how messages from Washington and a visit by a congressional delegation lead by Senator Dole convinced the Iraqi leaders that they would be allowed to settle their problems with Kuwait without outside interference). Khadduri and Ghareeb carry us through to the present, exploring the war and its aftermath, from the uprisings against Baghdad, to the continuing U.N. sanctions, to the recent defections from Saddam's inner circle. War in the Gulf is a balanced, eye-opening account of one of the central events of recent years. It corrects the Western views of most reporting, explaining the frame of mind of the participants as no one has done before and causing us to examine anew such questions as who was responsible for the conflict, and what might have happened if the United States had not intervened so rapidly.
Author | : Howard Cincotta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. R. Hooton |
Publisher | : Middle East@War |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781911628224 |
'Desert Storm' reveals the whole war fought between Iraq and an international coalition, from the start of this campaign to its very end. This book offers a refreshing insight into this unique conflict.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Economic sanctions |
ISBN | : 9780949009876 |
Author | : Anthony H Cordesman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429967977 |
With the thoroughness that this recently spotlighted nation requires, this volume examines Kuwaits internal and external security situation after the turbulent days of the Gulf War and investigates continued Western involvement in its safekeeping. It also examines Kuwaits changing role as an energy exporter. }With the thoroughness that this recently spotlighted nation requires, this volume examines Kuwaits internal and external security situation after the turbulent days of the Gulf War and investigates continued Western involvement in its safekeeping. It also examines Kuwaits changing role as an energy exporter. }
Author | : Hamdi Hassan |
Publisher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780745314112 |
To what extent has religion, identity and ‘otherness’ facilitated and accelerated armed conflict in the Middle East?
Author | : Musallam Ali Musallam |
Publisher | : British Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Evaluates three factors which may explain the causes of the Gulf War. First, the author compares Saddam Hussein's personality to other war-like dictators, analyzes the internal weaknesses of the Iraqi state, and then assesses the formal anarchy of the post
Author | : Richard Winship Stewart |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : 9780160858673 |
Twenty years ago, the Persian Gulf War captured the attention of the world as the first test of the U.S. Army since the Vietnam War and the first large-scale armor engagement since World War II. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and his subsequent ouster by the U.S.-led coalition are keys to understanding today's situation in the Middle East. The coalition partnerships cemented in that initial operation and in the regional peacekeeping operations that followed provided the basis for a growing series of multinational efforts that have characterized the post-Cold War environment. Moreover, the growing interoperability of U.S. air, sea, and land forces coupled with the extensive employment of more sophisticated weapons first showcased in Desert Storm have become the hallmark of American military operations and the standard that other nations strive to meet.