Limiting arms, enforcing limits: International inspections and the challenges of compellance in Germany post-1919,
Iraq post-1991

Keiger, JFV

Abstract

This article compares efforts to curb German military power after 1919 with attempts to limit that of Iraq after 1991. It argues that incomplete defeat in each case, compounded by disputes among the victors (exploited by the
Germans and Iraqis) undermined a long-term maintenance of each settlement.UNSCOM’s problems in Iraq in the 1990s replicated much of what had hamstrung the IMCC in Germany in the 1920s. Crucial was the lack of autonomous intelligence and verification capabilities, enabling the targeted regimes to defy inspections, whilst challenging the impartiality and legitimacy of the enforcers. Facing devious and unrepentant adversaries, both inspection
regimes survived barely seven years. In both cases a second war would ensue against the non-compliers – Germany in 1939, Iraq in 2003.

Citation

Iraq post-1991. Journal of Strategic Studies, 29(2), 345-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390600585233

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2006
• Deposit Date: May 21, 2010
• Journal: The Journal of Strategic Studies
• Print ISSN: 0140-2390
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 345-394
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390600585233
• Keywords: disarmament; arms limitation; arms enforcement
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402390600585233