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Assessing the prospects for the future of what he terms one of the most reckless and profligate actions in US foreign policy, Mr Ricks argues that the greatest threats that the Bush Administration and its successor could face in Iraq would be civil war, an enforced partition of the country or the emergence of a powerful anti-Western leader in the mould of Saladin, a charismatic leader of the Arab opposition to the Western crusades in the twelfth century. Rory Stewart's eye opening memoir of his time as a deputy governor of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) after the ouster of Saddam Hussein from power in May 2003 offers a fascinating window on the Anglo-American experience of state building in Iraq. The CPA failed in its efforts to promote the causes of religious minorities, women's rights, and the Marsh Arab groups through the funding of civil society organisations and the formation of representative bodies.
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Reviewing Iraq
REVIEWING IRAQ
IN a series of influential articles in American popular weekly news magazines and academic journals, Richard Haass, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, recently declared that the American era of dominance in the Middle East is now over. Mr Haass argues that the policies pursued by the Bush Administration have hastened the decline of Washington's half-century of command and influence over the international politics of the region. Significantly, the US decision to effect 'regime change' and create a democratic state in Iraq have only succeeded in destabilising the Middle East further, intensifying ill-will towards Washington and increasing the threat of future terrorist attacks against the American homeland. Mr Haass insists that the United States needs to eschew militarism and democracy promotion as tools of statecraft in favour of a concerted campaign of diplomacy to rejuvenate the Arab-Israeli peace process while keeping in check the regional ambitions o...Siehe den Gesamtinhalt dieses Dokumentes
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