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The Persian Gulf War and International Law
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The Persian Gulf War and International Law
The paper examines the global response to Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait: War crimes history and theory, practical & legal issues of trying Hussein, role of Israel and the United Nations and the U.S..
6,750 words (approx. 27 pages) |
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1991
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"On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi forces of President Saddam Hussein invaded and swiftly occupied the neighboring emirate or principality of Kuwait. The optimistic hope that the largely bloodless Eastern European democratic revolutions of 1989 marked an "end of history" and the beginning of new era of peace and democracy was quite brutally dashed. By invading Kuwait, Saddam was challenging the world. He was in effect asserting that in spite of lofty rhetoric about the rule of law, naked force could still have the final word.Saddam was asserting this principle, the principle of force, quite apart from any question about the rights or wrongs of his previous diplomatic dispute with Kuwait. It may well be that Iraq had some merit in its claims that were the immediate pretext for the war: Iraqi rights to a waterway into the Persian Gulf, ... "
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The Persian Gulf War and International Law (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-The-Persian-Gulf-War-and-International-Law/18663
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"The Persian Gulf War and International Law" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-The-Persian-Gulf-War-and-International-Law/18663>
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