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A solitary war : a diplomat's chronicle of the Iraq war and its lessons
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A solitary war : a diplomat's chronicle of the Iraq war and its lessons

Heraldo Muñoz

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"A Fulcrum paperback original"--P. [4] of cover.

Contents

Foreword / by Kofi Annan
Introduction
Early warnings
A telling phone call from Condi
A war with multilateral support
One, two, three Iraqs : the costs of the unilateralist doctrine
War games in the United Nations : a tale of missed opportunities
Resolution to act
A tug of war
The Blair-Lagos last-ditch effort
The final diplomatic bets
High noon in Iraq : diplomacy fails
Unilateralism in retreat : the hard task of winning the peace in Iraq
Multilateralism under fire
The war deepens : the UN is a target
A turn toward tactical multilateralism
Why multilateralism matters : the United Nations enables the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq and the 2005 elections
A sense of loss of direction and moral defeat
Negotiating the establishment of the Iraqi interim government
The end of occupation?
The 2005 elections and the Nouri al-Maliki government
Worlds apart : the alienation of allies
Chile : the distant neighbor
Mexico : "so far from God, so close to the United States"
The transatlantic divide with the "old Europe"
Less-than-willing allies and the failed evidence to go to war
Conclusions : the U.S war backtrack and the future of multilateralism
The costs of a war without friends
A changing attitude toward the United Nations
Why the United States should care about multilateralism
Beyond Iraq : to lead or to impose.

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