Iraq

Clara Portela

Chapter 37 in Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions, 2025, pp 132-133 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The comprehensive trade embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Iraq is one of the most central sanctions episodes in the history of the organisation. Its severe humanitarian consequences had highly influential effects on both the evolution of sanctions, giving rise to the development of targeted sanctions, and on the operation of the UN, which devised a system to allow for the sale of oil in exchange for the purchase of food and medical supplies: the Oil-for-Food programme. Some innovations brought about in the aftermath of the Iraq sanctions regime have become standard practice of the UN. By contrast, the Oil-for-Food programme was subject to a major corruption and mismanagement scandal that led to its termination.

Keywords: Weapons of mass destruction; Oil-for-Food programme; Humanitarian impacts; Kuwait; Iraq; Corruption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035339525
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