| ID | 051418 |
| Title Proper | Bush, the United nations and nation-building |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Chesterman, Simon |
| Publication | 2004. |
| Description | p101-116 |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Would greater UN involvement have avoided any of the mistakes made by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in administering Iraq? Three of the most egregious errors – failing to provide for emergency law and order, disbanding the Iraqi army and blanket de-Ba'athification – ran counter to lessons from previous operations. But the greatest mistake by US planners may have been the assumption that previous UN nation-building efforts have achieved limited success because of UN incompetence, rather than because of the inherent contradictions in building democracy through foreign military intervention. The United States is now engaged, in Afghanistan and Iraq, in two of the most ambitious nation-building projects in its history. The US took a predominant role in part because of the circumstances in which the two conflicts commenced, but also as an extension of the present administration's more general suspicion of multilateral institutions such as the United Nations. This suspicion now undermines the chances of either operation concluding successfully. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival Vol. 46, No.1; Spring 2004: p101-116 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 46 No 1 |
| Key Words | United Nations ; Nation Building ; Peacekeeping ; UN |