Getting out of the Iraq trap

International Affairs

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Hollis, Rosemary ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042329834     PISSN: 00205850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2346.00293     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Inspiration for this line- of argument came in part from Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey, Retrieving the imperial: empire and international relations', Millennium Journal of International Studies 31: 1, 2002, pp. 109-27.
2. Kenneth M. Pollack, 'Next stop Baghdad?', Foreign Affairs 81: 2, March-April 2002.
3. For an insight on how Iraqis inside the country saw the prospects in October 2002, see Hugh Pope, 'International reporter's notebook: to Iraqis, "culture change" is crucial'. Wall Street Journal via Dow Jones, 29 Oct. 2002.
4. The term comes from the title of Elizabeth Monroe's book, Britain's moment in the Middle East 1914-71 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1981).
5. For an appraisal of the special vulnerabilities of Iraq, see Gawdat Bahgat, 'Iraq after Saddam: what lies ahead?'Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies 23: 1, Spring 1998.
6. An argument developed by Mai Yamani, author of Changed identities: the challenge of the new generation in Saudi Arabia (London: RIIA, 2000); see also Jamal Khashoggi, 'Saudi-US friendship stops at Palestine's door', Daily Star, 10 Oct. 2002.
7. An argument developed by Mai Yamani, author of Changed identities: the challenge of the new generation in Saudi Arabia (London: RIIA, 2000); see also Jamal Khashoggi, 'Saudi-US friendship stops at Palestine's door', Daily Star, 10 Oct. 2002.
8. The author is indebted to Mai Yamani for a running translation of the interview.
9. Beyond containment: defending US interests in the Persian Gulf, INSS Special Report (Washington DC: US National Defense University, Sept. 2002).
10. President Bush, 'The world after the Persian Gulf War', address before a joint session of Congress, 6 March 1991, in US Department of State Despatch, 11 March 1991, pp. 161-3.
11. Gary Sick, 'US policy in the Gulf: objectives and prospects', in Rosemary Hollis, ed., Managing new developments in the Gulf (London: RIIA, 2000), p. 44.
12. Charles Tripp, 'States, elites and the management of change', in Hassan Hakimian and Ziba Moshaver, eds, The state and global change: the political economy of transition in the Middle East and South Africa (London: Curzon, 2001), p. 222.
13. Graham F. Fuller, 'Shards of a shattered Middle East cut both ways', Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2002.
14. Speaking at the RIIA on 26 September 2002, Palestinian strategic analysts Khalil Shikaki described a US war in Iraq and a 'lose-lose' situation for the Palestinians.