UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND MANAGEMENT OF GLOBAL CRISIS: A CASE STUDY OF US INVASION OF IRAQ, 1991-2008

📄 Project Abstract

This study is an attempt to explore and interrogate the role of United Nations Security in conflict management, using Iraq as a case of study. We investigated the pervasive influence of United States on the Middle East in general and Iraq in particular and how this impacted on the United Nation Security Council's role in conflict management. We raised tentative statements as follows: _x0001_ There is a positive link between invasions of Iraq by the U.S and its Middle East policy, _x0001_ The interest of U.S and U.N appears to coincide on the need to institutionalize western-styled development model _x0001_ There is no positive link between the non-use of veto to stop the U.S invasion of Iraq and international conspiracy among members of Security Council. We anchored our analysis on the Marxist Political Economy paradigm and noted that protection of United States national interest in the Middle East exacerbated the conflict see the back page. At the end of our investigation, we arrived ...