The Iraqi Predicament: People in the Quagmire of Power Politics

Iraq is a casualty of the degeneration of the international system built up from the ashes of two world wars and embodied in the principles of international law and the United Nations charter, say the Ismael's, who are professors at the University of Calgary. They use the relationship between Iraq and the US and a moribund UN since the 1990-91 Gulf War as a case study to reveal the fundamental problem. Distributed by the U. of Michigan Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR