Governance im Zeitalter des Terrors: Der Fall Irak

In: Prokla: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 439-457

Abstract

The war in Iraq can neither be understood as a sectarian nor as a civil war, rather, it implicitly refers to internal struggles for power within the governing cliques & their opponents. The civil war artifact is presented by the occupier & the governing cliques in Iraq. The rationale behind the construction is to further legitimize the occupation & the presence of an ever-increasing number of troops, on which the position of power of the governing cliques relies immensely. Rather than a civil war, what exists is a correlation of political power & economic interest between the Bush administration & the ruling cliques in Iraq in as much as both political agendas depend on the compliance of the other. References. Adapted from the source document.