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Comment: Iraq after the Gulf War.

  • UPSC 1992
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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The ceasefire of 28 February 1991 ended the war but not the Iraq question. Saddam Hussein's regime survived defeat, and the victors chose to contain it rather than occupy it. Post-war Iraq became a laboratory of conditional sovereignty: a member state whose arms, borders, oil revenue and airspace were placed under international control for twelve…

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  • A regime that survived
  • Sovereignty under the Security Council
  • The Kurdish exception
  • The humanitarian cost of sanctions
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