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Author Feldman, Noah, 1970-

Title What we owe Iraq : war and the ethics of nation building / Noah Feldman
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (154 pages)
Contents Nation Building: Objectives -- Trusteeship, Paternalism, and Self-Interest -- The Magic of Elections and the Way Home
Summary What do we owe Iraq? America is up to its neck in nation building--but the public debate, focused on getting the troops home, devotes little attention to why we are building a new Iraqi nation, what success would look like, or what principles should guide us. What We Owe Iraq sets out to shift the terms of the debate, acknowledging that we are nation building to protect ourselves while demanding that we put the interests of the people being governed--whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, or elsewhere--ahead of our own when we exercise power over them. Noah Feldman argues that to prevent nation
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Subject Postwar reconstruction -- Iraq
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Peace
Nation-building -- Iraq
HISTORY -- Military.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Nation-building
Peace
Postwar reconstruction
Golfkrieg 2003
Nachkriegszeit
Wiederaufbau
Demokratisierung
Natievorming.
Golfoorlog (2003)
Iraq
Irak
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400826223
1400826225