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Just War Theory and U.S. Foreign Policy: Resources

• Please note that the inclusion of an item on this list does not imply an endorsement of that item.

• This is a rough list of a few resources that

Don’t get carried away.

Documents

The Geneva Convention can be found at: http://www.hrweb.org/legal/geneva1.html

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be found at: http://www.hrweb.org/legal/udhr.html

Security Council Resolutions, along with other documents associated with U.N. activity, can be found at: http://www.un.org/documents/

The UN Charter is available at: http://www.un.org/Overview/Charter/contents.html

Iraqi Research and Documentation Project at Harvard: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~irdp/

The National Security Advisor has recently (September, 2002) produced a report, 'The National Security Strategy of the United States of America'. This is available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html

Yale Law School hosts an enormous collection of legal documents at: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

The U.S. State Department publishes an unusually honest (for a government) report about human rights conditions in other countries. The current report is available at: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/

Some of the reports on which Congress relies to make decisions regarding Iraq can be found at: http://www.iraqresearch.com/html/links.html

The Middle East and Islamic Studies Collection at Cornell has a number of resources: http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/

Maps

The U.N. has a map of Iraq at: http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/iraq.pdf

See also on the same site a map of the Iraq-Kuwait border: http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/dpko/unikom.pdf

The University of Texas has a number of maps borrowed from the CIA:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/iraq.html

And see also: http://www.reliefweb.int/w/map.nsf/Country?OpenForm&Query=SA_Iraq

The BBC has a helpful collection of maps: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/iraq_key_maps/html/default.stm

Sources By Media
Newspapers

Most newspapers these days have (free) e-mail services in addition to web-sites intended to complement their print editions. You might consider taking out a subscription to one or two of these.

The web site <http://www.aldaily.com> has an extensive collection of links to various news sources.

Media Critiques

Left-wing (officially, non-partisan) criticism of the mainstream media can be found at <http://www.fair.org>

Criticism of and commentary about the press is also available at <www.spinsanity.com>

Other

Slate Magazine (http://www.slate.msn.com), published only on the web, has a good deal of commentary and discussion about current events. In October Slate ran a vigorous debate called "Should the U.S. Invade Iraq?". You can find this debate using Slate's search engine.

Slate also runs occasional "explainers" which attempt to settle difficult factual questions. These can be found by running a search on Slate’s home page. Examples include: "How Does a U.N. Security Council Resolution Get Passed", "Did the United States Expose Iraqi Civilians to Radiation?". Again, you can find these using Slate's search engine.

Organizations and Think Tanks

The Brookings Institute has many documents and articles available on its web-site: http://www.brookings.edu

The Council on Foreign Relations provides a good example of current mainstream thinking about international relations: http://www.cfr.org/

The right-wing/libertarian Cato Institute has been quite hostile to the prospect of war against Iraq: http://www.cato.org/current/iraq/index.htm

Middle East Research and Information (MERIP) is also quite hostile to war on Iraq. A recent report, "Why Another War?" is available on their web-site at: : http://www.merip.org

The US State Dept. has a number of helpful resources at: http://fpc.state.gov

The United Nations also has a news service and many documents at: http://www.un.org

The Federation of American Scientists has an extensive collection of links and resources at: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/iraq.htm

Sources By Topic
The Sanctions Regime, etc. (U.S. policy on Iraq since 1991)

Brown, Sarah. Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq (Course Reserve).

Byman, Daniel L. and Matthew C. Waxman. Confronting Iraq: U.S. Policy and the Use of Force Since the Gulf War.

Cockburn and Cockburn. Out of the Ashes. (Course Reserve)

An account of Saddam Hussein’s recovery after the first Gulf War, with special attention to CIA mistakes.

Cordesman, Anthony H. and Ahmed S. Hashim. Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond. (Course Reserve)

Katzman. 'Iraq: U.S. Efforts to Change the Regime'. Available at: http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/oth.PDF

United Nations. Blue Book Series, Volume IX: The United Nations and the Iraq-Kuwait Conflict: 1990-1996. (New York: Department of Public Information, United Nations), 1996. (On Course Reserve)

The Kurds

The Washington Kurdish Institute has news and links to other resources: http://www.kurd.org

A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, called 'Civil War in Iraq,' (Course Reserve) from 1991 provides some background on the origins of the Kurdish uprising in 1991.

Human Rights Watch also has a number of documents on their web site regarding the situation and treatment of the Kurds.

Oil

Peter Beinart thinks that the war isn’t about oil: <http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021007&s=trb100702>

Regarding the first Gulf War: Bandow, Doug 'The Myth of Iraq's Oil Stranglehold' in The Gulf War Reader (Course Reserve)

Feiler, Gil. 'Petroleum prices, politics and war' (Electronic Reserve). Feiler gives the background to the Gulf War, focusing on Iraqi charges of overproduction as a casus belli. You can follow the references in this paper to find more useful sources of technical information about production figures and quotas.

More on the first time round: Tanzer, Michael. 'Oil and the Gulf Crisis.' (in The Gulf War Reader (Course Reserve)).

Yergin, Daniel provides some background in 'Oil: The Strategic Prize,' in The Gulf War Reader (Course Reserve).

A List of the Books on Course Reserve

Brown, Sarah. Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq

Butler. The Greatest Threat.

Byman, Daniel L. and Matthew C. Waxman. Confronting Iraq: U.S. Policy and the Use of Force Since the Gulf War.

Cockburn, Andrew and Patrick Cockburn. Out of the Ashes.

Cordesman, Anthony H. and Ahmed S. Hashim. Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond.

Middle East Watch. Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War. (Course Reserve)

Reisman, W. Michael and Chris T. Antoniou. The Laws of War: A Comprehensive Collection of Primary Documents on International Laws Governing Armed Conflict.

Regan, Richard J. 'Just War: Principles and Cases'

Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, called 'Civil War in Iraq,'

Sifry, Micah L. and Christopher Cerf. The Gulf War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions.

United Nations. Blue Book Series, Volume IX: The United Nations and the Iraq-Kuwait Conflict: 1990-1996. (New York: Department of Public Information, United Nations), 1996.

Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars (Second Edition).

A List of Articles on Electronic Reserve

Anscombe. 'War and Murder'

Aquinas. Excerpt from Summa Theologica

Barnes. 'The Just War'

Butler. Excerpt from The Greatest Threat.

Coates. 'Just War in the Persian Gulf?'

Feiler, Gil. 'Petroleum prices, politics and war'

Hitchens. 'Realpolitik in the Gulf: A Game Gone Tilt'

Holmes. 'Terrorism and Violence'

Human Rights Watch. Excerpt fromNeedless Deaths in the Gulf War.

Human Rights Watch. Excerpt from The Bush Administration’s Record on Human Rights in 1989.

Johnson. 'Threats, Values, and Defence'

Johnson. 'The Just War Tradition and the American Military'

Kavka. 'Was the Gulf War a Just War?'

Lloyd. Excerpt from My War Gone by, I Miss it So.

Orend. 'Jus Post Bellum'

Orend. 'A Just-War Critique of Realism and Pacifism'

Orwell. 'Politics and the English Language'

Pollack, Kenneth M. 'Next Stop Baghdad'

Walzer. 'Anticipations'