Case study: 🇮🇶 War (2003)

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Events

  • 🇮🇶 believed to own WMD

  • UN weapons inspectors investigating

  • UNSC resolution as to invasion not reached

  • 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸 invaded 🇮🇶 to suppposedly stop the creation of these WMD

  • None were found

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Application to realism: weakness of IGOs and IL

  • UNSC did not give 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸 permission, no resolution was reached

  • What they did was therefore illegal under IL but neither country was punished

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Application to realism: national interest (🇺🇸)

  • 🇺🇸 acted in perceived national interest — threat of terrorism

  • Mearsheimer:

    • Was not actually in NI to invade

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Application to realism: national interest (🇬🇧)

  • 🇬🇧 acted in perceived national interest — WMDs are a threat to the Middle East, in which 🇬🇧 had and has strategic interest