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Filling the Security Void in Iraq: Analysis of the U.S. Strategy

Date:
12.Jun.2007
Time:
19:00 hrs
Place:
CIDOB Foundation. Maragall Hall. C/ Elisabets, 12. 08001 Barcelona
Organised by:
Mediterranean Programme of the CIDOB Foundation and Casa Árabe – Instituto Internacional de Estudios Árabes y del Mundo Musulmán

After four years of U.S. occupation in Iraq, at the beginning of 2007, the Bush administration announced the deployment of new troops in Baghdad. Even before this deployment was made, several violent groups, except for Al Qaeda in Iraq, left the zone, thus lowering the number and intensity of attacks. This scenario which was propitious for proposing political initiatives was allowed to slip away, and just when the number of troops deployed is about to reach its highest level, the sectarian violence has also risen to its previous high levels. The United States cannot manage to legitimise its intervention in Iraq, and, although it finally has a political plan, it is not a very ambitious one, and it seems to have arrived too late. In this context, and through an analysis of the U.S. strategy, Joost Hiltermann, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program of the International Crisis Group, lays out the possible solutions to the conflict.

Comments by Fred Halliday, Lecturer at the London School of Economics and the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals.

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