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Who
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Lebanon & Syria: The Geopolitics of Change (Spring 1997)
Cairo: Power, Poverty and Urban Survival (Winter 1997)
Israel and Palestine: Two States, Bantustans or Binationalism? (Fall 1996)
Minorities in the Middle East (Summer 1996)
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THE
US-IRAQ
CRISIS
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ARTICLES & REPORTS
November, 1997 UNICEF Report: Surveys Reveal Deepening Crisis. "It is clear that children are bearing the brunt of the current economic hardship."
Joint FAO/WFP Mission to Iraq: "Malnutrition is still widespread" (October, 1997 release) UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Special Report of FAO/WFP Food Supply and Nutrition Assessment Mission to Iraq (October 1997)
The Sanctions Debate, US Foreign Policy in Focus Series by the Institute for Policy Studies - October 1998
In Focus: US-Iraq Conflict by Phyllis Bennis
Published by the Institute for Policy Studies and Interhemispheric Resource Center, the paper argues that US policy has failed, punishing the population while leaving the regime unscathed.
LINKS TO OTHER SOURCES
The Institute for Public Accuracy on sanctions and US Iraq policy.
The Editors of Middle East Report
The Clinton administration's mindless perpetuation of an outmoded Gulf policy is a true failure of political imagination. Posted December 17, 1998
[Will appear in Middle East Report (Winter, 1998) in late December]
The
US-Iraq Crisis
The Editors of Middle East Report
Weeks of escalating rhetoric against the backdrop of a massive and carefully choreographed military buildup in the Persian Gulf and continued defiance in Baghdad, had brought Washington to the brink of launching a major military strike. The only alternative would have been to acknowledge that it really had no viable policy towards Iraq.
[Middle East Report, Spring
1998]
Legalism
and Realism in the Gulf
Sheila Carapico
The Clinton policy seems less concerned with Iraqi compliance or UNSCOM's integrity than with perpetuating the economic embargo, on-going inspections, "no-fly zones," and periodic American air strikes.
[Middle East Report, Spring
1998]
The
Impact of Sanctions in Iraq
While the accuracy of statistics demonstrating the impact of United Nations sanctions on Iraq cannot be fully determined, there is no question that their impact has been severe.
[Middle East Report, Spring
1998]
Military
Strikes: Ending or Maintaining the Conflict?
Karim El-Gawhary
High-tech bombardments accompanied by stage-managed military
briefings may elicit popular support in the US and Britain. They are not likely, however, to change the situation on the ground because Iraq now has little to lose.
Iraqi
Sanctions, Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
Roger Normand
Sanctions have had a devastating impact on the most vulnerable sectors of Iraqi society, especially children. Yet
there has been an astonishing lack of public debate over the moral and legal implications of a policy that imposes such
enormous costs on a civilian population.
Related Issues of Middle East Report
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