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Iraq Crisis - Analysis and Reviews
LATEST UPDATE

NEW: Humanitarian analysis - 'Food and the politics of humanitarian access in Iraq' - 12 May
Iraq timeline update - 11 May
Naval deployment update - 6 May
Naval activity assessment - 6 May

EVENT TIMELINE
Click here for a timeline of the current crisis
Click here for a complete history of Iraq from 1920 until May 2001
RELATED PUBLICATIONS
Iraq's WMD Dossier

Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment
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Sample chapter
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Adelphi Paper 354: Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change
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Selected articles from Survival, Volume 45, No. 1, Spring 2003
Force, Pre-emption and Legitimacy, Walter B. Slocombe
The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda, Edward Rhodes
Bush's Middle East Vision, Philip H. Gordon
Click here for further Survival details and subscriber information

HUMANITARIAN ANALYSIS

Click here for the article 'Food and the politics of humanitarian access in Iraq'
Click here for the article 'Iraq: lurching toward recovery'
Click here for the article 'Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq: A Potential Crisis?'
Click here for the article 'Rebuilding Iraq'
Click here for the article 'Iraq: A humanitarian quagmire?'

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Cost summary: Potential cost of war
Article: Analysis of Coalition cost of war
Analyst: Mark Stoker

STRATEGIC COMMENTS ON IRAQ

- France, America and Iraq
- US Policy towards the Middle East
- The Bush National Security Strategy
- A new refugee crisis in Iraq?
- Dealing with the 'axis of evil'
- Iraq after Saddam 


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IRAQ CRISIS MAPS ARCHIVE

Click here for maps of WMD related sites in Iraq / Middle East: Iraq Crisis viewpoints / Iraqi military

FORCE DEPLOYMENTS

Combat air force assets around Iraq Analysis
Analyst: Andrew Brookes

US and allied ground forces deployment Analysis
Analyst: Phillip Mitchell

 Naval forces deployment in the Persian Gulf/Arabian Sea Analysis
Analyst: Cdr. Rodney Craig
KEY STATEMENTS

US - British meeting: Blair statement
8 Apr 2003
US - British meeting: Bush statement -
8 Apr 2003

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RELATED EVENTS
 Policy Address on Iraq by The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

The 2003 Alastair Buchan Lecture, 'Law, force and justice' delivered by French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin.

Address to IISS by Dr Paul Wolfowitz, US Deputy Secretary of Defense

Protecting Against the Spread of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons: An Action Agenda for the Global Partnership

IISS IN THE PRESS

Click here for IISS press commentary on Iraq

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