Joy Gordon is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University.

In one of the bitter ironies of our time, the UN Security Council--under the influence of the United States--destroyed a country in order to save it from its leader. In vividly portraying and thoroughly documenting the history of the Western decapitation of Iraq through economic sanctions Joy Gordon fills a huge gap in the literature. Her penetrating research reveals the purposefulness of punishment, complicity, rationalization, and outright deception as standard practice in the role played by the United States, which lacked critical self-reflection and any clear sense of rules or the relationship between means and ends. This book will become a foreign affairs classic.

• * Preface * The Policy of Containment * How the Sanctions Worked * The Influence of the United States * The Problem of Holds * The Magnitude of the Catastrophe * Tensions at the United Nations * The Role of the Iraqi Government * Congress and the Sanctions * The Oil for Food Scandal * Inside the U.S. Policy * International Law and the Sanctions * The Moral and Political Questions * Notes * Bibliography * Index

Joy Gordon is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University.

In one of the bitter ironies of our time, the UN Security Council--under the influence of the United States--destroyed a country in order to save it from its leader. In vividly portraying and thoroughly documenting the history of the Western decapitation of Iraq through economic sanctions Joy Gordon fills a huge gap in the literature. Her penetrating research reveals the purposefulness of punishment, complicity, rationalization, and outright deception as standard practice in the role played by the United States, which lacked critical self-reflection and any clear sense of rules or the relationship between means and ends. This book will become a foreign affairs classic.

• * Preface * The Policy of Containment * How the Sanctions Worked * The Influence of the United States * The Problem of Holds * The Magnitude of the Catastrophe * Tensions at the United Nations * The Role of the Iraqi Government * Congress and the Sanctions * The Oil for Food Scandal * Inside the U.S. Policy * International Law and the Sanctions * The Moral and Political Questions * Notes * Bibliography * Index

Joy Gordon is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University.

In one of the bitter ironies of our time, the UN Security Council--under the influence of the United States--destroyed a country in order to save it from its leader. In vividly portraying and thoroughly documenting the history of the Western decapitation of Iraq through economic sanctions Joy Gordon fills a huge gap in the literature. Her penetrating research reveals the purposefulness of punishment, complicity, rationalization, and outright deception as standard practice in the role played by the United States, which lacked critical self-reflection and any clear sense of rules or the relationship between means and ends. This book will become a foreign affairs classic.

• * Preface * The Policy of Containment * How the Sanctions Worked * The Influence of the United States * The Problem of Holds * The Magnitude of the Catastrophe * Tensions at the United Nations * The Role of the Iraqi Government * Congress and the Sanctions * The Oil for Food Scandal * Inside the U.S. Policy * International Law and the Sanctions * The Moral and Political Questions * Notes * Bibliography * Index