LEADER 03971nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910464316003321 005 20210623234619.0 010 $a0-8014-5937-0 010 $a1-336-20818-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801459375 035 $a(CKB)3360000000476978 035 $a(EBL)3137979 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534922 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11364406 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534922 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10520525 035 $a(PQKB)11169806 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137979 035 $a(OCoLC)966925029 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51827 035 $a(DE-B1597)478609 035 $a(OCoLC)979577145 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801459375 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137979 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457600 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL752104 035 $a(OCoLC)726824239 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000476978 100 $a20081020d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChannels of power$b[electronic resource] $ethe UN Security Council and U.S. statecraft in Iraq /$fAlexander Thompson 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8014-7637-2 311 0 $a0-8014-4718-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. The Power of International Organizations --$t2. Coercion, Institutions, and Information --$t3. The Security Council in the Gulf War, 1990-1991 --$t4. Coercive Disarmament: The Interwar Years --$t5. The Second Iraq War: Down the UN Path, 2002-2003 --$t6. The Second Iraq War: Bypassing the Security Council --$t7. Conclusion: How the Security Council Matters --$tAppendix: Selected Security Council Resolutions --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWhen President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, he did so without the explicit approval of the Security Council. His father's administration, by contrast, carefully funneled statecraft through the United Nations and achieved Council authorization for the U.S.-led Gulf War in 1991. The history of American policy toward Iraq displays considerable variation in the extent to which policies were conducted through the UN and other international organizations. In Channels of Power, Alexander Thompson surveys U.S. policy toward Iraq, starting with the Gulf War, continuing through the interwar years of sanctions and coercive disarmament, and concluding with the 2003 invasion and its long aftermath. He offers a framework for understanding why powerful states often work through international organizations when conducting coercive policies-and why they sometimes choose instead to work alone or with ad hoc coalitions. The conventional wisdom holds that because having legitimacy for their actions is important for normative reasons, states seek multilateral approval. Channels of Power offers a rationalist alternative to these standard legitimation arguments, one based on the notion of strategic information transmission: When state actions are endorsed by an independent organization, this sends politically crucial information to the world community, both leaders and their publics, and results in greater international support. 606 $aPersian Gulf War, 1991 606 $aIraq War, 2003-2011 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zIraq 607 $aIraq$xForeign relations$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPersian Gulf War, 1991. 615 0$aIraq War, 2003-2011. 676 $a956.7044/22 700 $aThompson$b Alexander$f1972-$01029622 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464316003321 996 $aChannels of power$92446159 997 $aUNINA