The Neo-Colonial State of Exception in Occupied Iraq

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Author(s): David Whyte (University of Liverpool, UK)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 16
Source title: Handbook of Research on Transitional Justice and Peace Building in Turbulent Regions
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Fredy Cante (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)and Hartmut Quehl (Felsberg Institute, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9675-4.ch015

Keywords: Ethics and Social Responsibility / Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This paper explores the immediate post-conflict period following the 2003 Coalition invasion of Iraq, analysing the political strategy of economic exceptionalism violently and illegally imposed by the Coalition partners. The government of occupation, Coalition Provisional Authority, (CPA) ensured the disbursal of revenue and the accumulation of profits at an accelerated rate with few administrative controls or mechanisms of accountability. In the case of the post-invasion transformation of Iraq, routine corporate criminality, facilitated by the government of occupation, is revealed as an important means of producing and reproducing (neo) colonial power relations. The systematic corruption of the reconstruction economy unfolded in a liminal space opened up by the suspension of law. This neo-colonial ‘state of exception' became the mode of domination that sough political and social transformation as part of the ‘reconstruction' process in post-Saddam Iraq.

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