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The Politics of International Administration

The Politics of International Administration Global Governance 10 (2004), 1–5 The Politics of International Administration Mats Berdal & Richard Caplan n the summer of 2003, as the mounting costs and difficulties facing U.S. and British forces in Iraq became ever more apparent, minis- I ters and officials responded to growing international criticism by invoking a plea: the challenge of administrating postwar Iraq following the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s odious regime was so unique, so wholly different from what had gone on elsewhere and before, that no amount of prewar planning could have prepared them adequately for the realities now confronting troops and civilian administrators in that vast, inhospitable, and war-torn country. More time was needed before judg- ment could be passed. This self-exculpatory plea should not be dismissed out of hand. The violent overthrow of a deeply entrenched and despotic regime by an external military force has created a set of challenges that are, arguably, more akin to those faced by the victorious Allies in Germany and Japan at the end of World War II than they are to those with which inter- national administrators have had to grapple after the Cold War. And yet, there is something plainly disingenuous about the claim that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations Brill

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1075-2846
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1942-6720
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10.1163/19426720-01001001
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Global Governance 10 (2004), 1–5 The Politics of International Administration Mats Berdal & Richard Caplan n the summer of 2003, as the mounting costs and difficulties facing U.S. and British forces in Iraq became ever more apparent, minis- I ters and officials responded to growing international criticism by invoking a plea: the challenge of administrating postwar Iraq following the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s odious regime was so unique, so wholly different from what had gone on elsewhere and before, that no amount of prewar planning could have prepared them adequately for the realities now confronting troops and civilian administrators in that vast, inhospitable, and war-torn country. More time was needed before judg- ment could be passed. This self-exculpatory plea should not be dismissed out of hand. The violent overthrow of a deeply entrenched and despotic regime by an external military force has created a set of challenges that are, arguably, more akin to those faced by the victorious Allies in Germany and Japan at the end of World War II than they are to those with which inter- national administrators have had to grapple after the Cold War. And yet, there is something plainly disingenuous about the claim that

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Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations – Brill

Published: Aug 3, 2004

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