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Before navegating in the maps about Iraq war, see the descriptions of the icons and number of nodes... |
Firstly, the body of arguments is organised around three central concepts that dominate mainstream i... |
Power, defined as the capacity to produced intended effects |
A degree of institutionalisation: values and procedures - regulatory environment |
Legitimacy, the moral virtues of a certain act or value |
Institutionalised legitimacy is required to maintain a leader's power base |
nothing justifies the loss of life on both sides that the invasion entailed |
A useful summary note reviewing the different positions on the Iraq Debate represented below has bee... |
Level of analysis issue becomes a problem... to conceptually organise the myriad of positions will ... |
Secondly, we can divide the body of literature into 6 groups, with a natural degree of diversity. T... |
favour the invasion of Iraq due to power considerations |
invasion is a strategic blunder - centrality of power but disagree on measures to maintain it. |
international institutions should be treated with more respect than simply deemed manifestations of ... |
a serious consideration of international institutions |
some moral claim that is more or less detached from practical considerations of power or internation... |
nothing justifies the deaths involved in removing Saddam |