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Criza din Golf şi procesul reparaţiilor de război
Gulf Crisis and War Reparations Process

Author(s): Ecaterina Maţoi
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: war reparations; Gulf crisis; Saddam regime; transitional justice

Summary/Abstract: The current paper is a research on the very special case of 1991 Gulf crisis and the following process through which UN imposed a structured and institutionalised compensation payment mechanism, on a war reparation logical basis. What makes the Iraqi case so special is an unprecedented UN involvement and surveillance regarding transitional justice, as well as political motivation of international actors, that use this system to control the Iraqi economy and influence its military, political and economical potential.

  • Issue Year: 53/2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 99-111
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian