Post Invasion Of Iraq And The Elements Of Disaster

Iraq a nation in the early 20th century had been fatigued by more than four centuries of deliberate Ottoman neglect and marginalization. The end of the Ottoman Empire brought about a colonial presence in the Middle East by the allied powers of Britain and France. The Sykes-Picot agreement divided Arab lands between the British and the French, however, between 1918 and 1920 Iraqi nationalism revolted against the British. The revolt against the British imperial presence prompted a formation of citizenship, which relied prominently on material facts: shared, common history and land between the Jews, Christians, Shiite’s and Sunni’s. Furthermore, this research paper will be looking at post-invasion of Iraq and the elements of disaster that†¦show more content†¦In the article by Benjamin Sovacool and Saul Halfon Reconstructing Iraq: Merging Discourses of Security and Development (2007) discusses the emerging discourse of reconstruction in international politics. Thi s article focuses on Iraq and demonstrates how reconstruction has merged security and development discourses in a comprehensive fashioned subject. Through Iraq, the Bush Administration attempted to produce a particular version of reconstruction; that is, to weave together a specific set of relations between security and development, between Iraqi and American identity. David Campbell describes security as a construct that shapes and is shaped by domestic struggles over national (political identities). Security in contemporary society encapsulates the concerns about various rogue actors, post-Cold War disintegrations and the rise of (Islamic Fundamentalism). Benjamin Sovacool and Saul Halfon demonstrate that these factors suggest strong ruptures in regimes of security, and that further discussion is necessary on how best we should respond to these elements in a world of heightened insecurity. My focus on Iraq highlights that, even though the United States devoted nine months to pla nning the war and only twenty-eight days to planning the reconstruction, the intervention in Iraq is not simply a military conquest, but also remains a significant development project. Further, as a development project, intervention in Iraq relies on a convergence of