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l: spring 2007 The-war in Iraq: Creating a Failed Failed State?
STABEL AND ARMANDO GELLER" Abstract: Assuming the war in Iraq will make lraq's society without rule and moral standard.
,. Introduction The War in Iraq has revealed an important paradox: The 'United States of America has proved to the world that it isthe most powerful global actor, especially in military terms.
©ristitute for Political and International Studies 96 THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS win a protracted guerrilla war.
Any military as well as humanitarian operation in the context of "new wars" or failed states is extremely risky and must therefore be carefully planned.
Iraq is also a precedent for how nation building should not be conducted in a failed state.
And, last but not least, Iraq is a precedent for what is at stake if the intervention and subsequent nation-building operations fail.
failed states and nation-building.
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In other words, conflict and war are becoming the longer the more a complex social phenomenon characterized by increasing interdependences of politics, the economy and the-military.
"!" Iraq: New War, Failed State, and Nation-Building What has been described as "new war" structures is emerging also in Iraq.
The situation of a "new war" leads to failed state structures which did not exist before.
THE WAR IN IRAQ: CREATING A FAILED FAILED STATE?
· 10- For another look at nation-building in failed states sec also Ignaiicff (2003).