Foreword

Diane Marie Amann

"In truth, even before the Iraq invasion, events elsewhere had exposed as myth the notion that one country’s one program could transform another country. Few reconstruction efforts launched in the last half of the twentieth century approached the success of the midcentury Marshall Plan. Study of those later efforts has begun to give rise to a body of literature most instructive on the matter of reconstruction. One lesson stands out: no single program is sufficient." [pdf] © Diane Marie Amann 2004, 2005

Iraqi Reconstruction and the Law of Occupation

John Yoo

This paper discusses the authority of the United States, under domestic and international law, to make fundamental changes to the constitutional law and government institutions of Iraq. [pdf] © John Yoo 2004, 2005

Intervention, Self-Determination, Democracy and the Residual Responsibilities of the Occupying Power in Iraq

Bartram S. Brown

Brown argues that a state should not intervene lightly in another’s internal affairs and that, if it chooses to intervene, the state must commit itself to long-term reconstruction of the invaded state. [pdf] © Bertram S. Brown 2004, 2005

The United States Government and Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction

Carl B. Kress

Kress’ article provides a most useful guide to the alphabet soup of the federal agencies involved. As he demonstrates, a host of agencies...may play a role in post-conflict reconstruction. [pdf] © Carl B. Kress 2004, 2005

Lawyers, Guns and Money: Warlords and Reconstruction After Iraq

James C. O'Brien

O’Brien notes that international post-conflict missions, like the one in Iraq, fail because they are ill-prepared to fight the local elites who try to seize power over some or all of a society as it emerges from war, whom he calls warlords. [pdf] © James C. O'Brien 2004, 2005

The Reconstruction of Iraq: Dealing with Debt

David D. Caron

Before the invasion, U.S. officials had predicted that Iraq, with its huge reserves of oil, rapidly would be able to pay for its own reconstruction. By late 2004, that had not come to pass. Caron’s article cites Iraq’s immense debt as a principal cause of this failure. [pdf] © David D. Caron 2004, 2005

Amnesty, The Sierra Leone Truth and Reconcilation Commission and the SPecial Court for Sierra Leone

William A. Schabas

Schabas concentrates on yet another formidable challenge: how to balance the desire to call to account the criminals of the just-concluded war with the need to heal the war-torn society. [pdf] © William A. Schabas 2004, 2005

Towards a Human Rights Approach to Armed Conflict: Iraq 2003

Karima Bennoune

Bennoune’s article criticizes human rights organizations for accepting international humanitarian law as the corpus that governs the conduct of war. [pdf] ©Karima Bennoune 2004, 2005