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This section contains an alphabetical list of research reports on, and analyses of, modern Iraq that are to be found on the internet. At present, it does not contain sources that are in print only; many of these are mentioned in CASI's thematic index. Furthermore, it does not contain official reports issued by non-governmental and international organisations, religious institutions and governments, details of which are to be found elsewhere on this site. Selected statements and reports from all of these bodies are compiled according to subject-matter in the thematic index.

• Akunjee, Muhammed and Asif Ali, "Healthcare under Sanctions in Iraq", Medicine, Conflict and Survival, Issue 18.3 (2002)
• Albright, David and Kevin O'Neill, "The Iraqi Maze: Searching for a Way Out", The Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 8:3 (Fall-Winter 2001)
• Ali, Mohamed M. and Iqbal H. Shah, Sanctions and childhood mortality in Iraq, from The Lancet (27 May 2000), pp.1851–57. The authors publish Unicef's 1999 mortality data. This article was accompanied by an editorial entitled "Iraq's children", from p.1837. These articles can only be accessed after free registering here.
• Alnasrawi, Abbas (Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont):
  • Oil, Sanctions, Debt and the Future (March 2001).
  • "Iraq: economic embargo and predatory rule", in E.W. Nafziger, F. Stewart and R.Väyrynen, eds., War, Hunger, and Displacement: The Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies. Volume 2 (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp.89-119.
• American Academy of Arts & Sciences occasional paper "War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives". Contributors include William Norhaus, Steven Miller, Carl Kaysen, John Steinbruner, and Martin Malin.
• Arnott, David,resource list for economic consequences of war (April 2003)
• Arnove, Anthony (author of Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War [London: Pluto Press, 2000]):
  • Iraq Under Siege: Ten Years On, from Monthly Review (December 2000).
  • The Hidden War Against Iraq, from International Socialist Review (June - July 2000).
• Baram, Amatzia, The Effect of Iraqi Sanctions: Statistical Pitfalls and Responsibility, from Middle East Journal (Spring 2000).
• Barton, Frederick and Bathsheba Crocker. "A wiser peace: an action strategy for post-conflict Iraq". CSIS, January 2003. Three supplements to this document provide information on Iraq's financial obligations, the Oil for Food programme, and costs of reconstruction
• Bennis, Phyllis, Various published articles analysing US policy towards Iraq are compiled in this list of the Transnational Institute.
• Bruderlein, Claude, The UN Security Council at the Crossroads: Toward More Humane and Better Targeted Sanctions, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (20 November 1999).
• Byman, Daniel, After the Storm: U.S. Policy Toward Iraq Since 1991, Political Science Quarterly, vol.115:4 (Winter 2000-1), pp.493-516.
• Cable, Vince, "Saddam's other weapon of mass destruction: the potential economic fallout from a war in Iraq". An html version is also available. January 30, 2003. An article focussing mainly on the impact for oil producion and oil markets.
• Cordesman, Anthony H.:
  • Iraqi Military Forces Ten Years After the Gulf War, from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (August 2000).
  • The Military Balance in the Gulf and the Threat from Iraq, from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (May 2000).
• Cordesman, Anthony H. "Iraq after Saddam: nation building and opposition movements".
• Cortright, David and George A. Lopez, "The Limits of Coercion", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 56:6 (Nov/Dec 2000), pp.18-20.
• Daponte, Beth Osborne, "A Case Study in Estimating Casualties from War and Its Aftermath: The 1991 Persian Gulf War", Physicians for Social Responsibility Quarterly, 3/2 (1993), 57-66
  
• Fawcett, John and Victor Tanner, "The Internally Displaced People of Iraq", Brookings Institution - SAIS Project on Internal Displacement, (October 2002).
• Garfield, Richard (Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University):
  • The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Health and Well-being (Overseas Development Institute, November 1999).
  • Morbidity and Mortality Among Iraqi Children from 1990 Through 1998: Assessing the Impact of the Gulf War and Economic Sanctions (July 1999).
• George, Rose, Saddam's cake, ARENA Magazine (August 2000).
• Gordon, Joy (Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University):
  • Sanctions as Siege Warfare, from The Nation (22 March 1999).
  • When Intent Makes All the Difference in the World: Economic Sanctions on Iraq and the Accusation of Genocide, Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal (2002) vol. 5 (pdf version; Word version here).
• Graham-Brown, Sarah (author of Sanctioning Saddam, St. Martin's Press, 1999):
  • No-Fly Zones Rhetoric and Real Intentions, MERIP Press Information Note 49 (20 February 2001).
  • Sanctions Renewed on Iraq, MERIP Press Information Note 96 (14 May 2002).
• Herring, Eric, Between Iraq and a Hard Place: A Critique of the British Government’s Case for UN Economic Sanctions, Review of International Studies, vol. 28:1 (January 2002), pp.39-56.
• Hersh, Seymour, Overwhelming Force: what happened in the final days of the Gulf War?, from The New Yorker (22 May 2000).
• Hildebrand, Dale (Director of Inter-Church Action, Canada), "The New 'Smart' Sanctions on Iraq: a Commentary" (8 June 2001).
• Hufbauer, Gary Clyde (Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, and ), The Snake Oil of Diplomacy: When Tensions Rise, the U.S. Peddles Sanctions, editorial in The Washington Post (12 July 1998). Hufbauer is co-author (with Kimberly Ann Elliott and Jeffrey J. Schott) of Economic Sanctions Reconsidered (3rd edn, 2001).
• Hurd, Nathaniel (consultant on Iraq policy): Security Council Resolution 1441 and the Threat of Force (PDF or MS Word).
• Jabar, Faleh A., Assessing the Iraqi Opposition, MERIP Press Information Note 51 (23 March 2001). Jabar is author of Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues: State and Religion in Iraq (Saqi Books, 2001).
• Jennings, Ray Salvatore. "After Saddam Hussein: winning a peace if it comes to war>". Special report of the United States Institute for Peace.
• Kandela, Peter, Baghdad 2000 - rubbish heaps and cesspits, from The Lancet (27 May 2000), p.1893. A brief eye-witness account. This article can only be accessed after free registration here.
• Khafaji, Isam al-, Almost Unnoticed: Interventions and Rivalries in Iraqi Kurdistan, MERIP Press Information Note 44 (24 January 2001).
• Kondoch, Boris, " The Limits of Economic Sanctions under International Law: The Case of Iraq " International Peacekeeping Volume 7 (2001), 267-94.
• Lynch, Marc, "Smart Sanctions: Rebuilding Consensus or Maintaining Conflict?", currently on the CASI Discussion List Archive (28 June 2001).
• Mahdi, Kamil, Rehabilitation Prospects for the Iraqi Economy, from The International Spectator (Journal of Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome), Volume XXXIII (June 1998).
• Malone, David (President of the International Peace Academy), Goodbye UNSCOM: a Sorry Tale in US-UN Relations, originally published in Security Dialogue, vol. 30, no. 4 (December 1999).
• McGeary, Johanna. "Looking beyond Saddam". Time magazine (March 2003).
• McHugh, Gerard (researcher and consultant for governments and international organisations; formerly a Research Fellow at MIT's Center for International Studies):
  • Improving the Humanitarian Situation in Iraq: "oil-for-food" post Resolution 1284 (1999) (4 September 2000).
  • Improving the Humanitarian Situation in Iraq: Establishing a "Cash Component" to Enhance the Provisions of Security Council Resolution 986 (30 September 1999).
  • Gaining UN Security Council Consensus on Iraq: Incremental Lifting of Sanctions (13 September 1999).
  • Improving the Humanitarian Situation in Iraq: Provisions of Existing UN Security Council Resolutions (9 July 1999).
  • "Oil-for-Food" as a Catalyst for a Strategic Approach to Improving the Humanitarian Situation in Iraq (7 July 1999).
• Marcel, Valerie, "The future of oil in Iraq: scenarios and implications". RIIA briefing paper (December 2002).
• Marr, Phebe. "Iraq the day after: internal dynamics in post-Saddam Iraq".
• New Internationalist magazine issue on Iraq (September 1999).
• Nordhaus, William. "The Economic Consequences of a War with Iraq". "Given the salience of cost, it is surprising that there has been no systematic public analysis of the economics of the coming conflict in Iraq. This essay is written in an attempt to fill the gap."
• Normand, Roger, "Iraqi Sanctions, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law", Middle East Report, Summer 1996.
• O'Sullivan, Meghan L., Iraq: Time for a Modified Approach, Policy Brief #71 of the Brookings Institute (February 2001).
• Perthes, Volker, Iraq under sanctions: a regime defiant, Royal Institute of International Affairs Briefing Paper #40 (February 1998).
• Porteous, Samuel D., Financial Sanctions: A Better Way to Target Rogue Regimes, from Backgrounder (7 December 2000), a publication of the C.D.Howe Institute (a Canadian centre-right think tank).
• Porter, Edward D., U.S. Energy Policy, Economic Sanctions and World Oil Supply. Published by the American Petroleum Institute (June 2001).
• Rabil, Robert G.. "The Iraqi opposition's evolution: from conflict to unity?" Meria, December 2002
• Ritter, Scott, "Redefining Iraq's Obligation: The Case for Qualitative Disarmament of Iraq", from Arms Control Today, vol.30:5 (June 2000), pp.8-14. Ritter was an Unscom weapons inspector until his resignation in 1998.
• Rogers, Paul. "Iraq: Consequences of War". Oxford Research Group report. October 2002.
• Rosser, Kevin, Suspending Sanctions on Iraq: Make Haste, Slowly, from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Monthly Comment (November 1999).
• Rowat, Colin (Lecturer in Economics, Birmingham University, UK)
  • "Iraq Sanctions Saga Continues amid Policy Confusion", Middle East Economic Survey, vol.45:23 (10 June 2002).
  • "How the Sanctions Hurt Iraq", MERIP Press Information Note 65 (2 August 2001).
• Schilling, Warner, professor emeritus of international relations at Columbia University, predicts a higher level of Iraqi civilian casualties than in the 1991 Gulf War in a panel discussion
• Sikora, Karol (head of the WHO Cancer Programme), Cancer services are suffering in Iraq, from The British Medical Journal, 318:203 (16 January 1999).
• Stremlau, John, Sharpening International Sanctions: Toward a Stronger Role for the United Nations (November 1996). A report for the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.
• 'Spinoza, Abu' (Abu Spinoza is a pseudonym for an economist), Down and Out in Baghdad and Basra, A Simple Model and the Empirics of Subsistence and Stagnation (March 2003)
• Tarzi, Amin, "Contradictions In U.S. Policy on Iraq and its Consequences", MERIA Journal, vol.4:1 (March 2000).
• Ward, Celeste Johnson. "Potential Costs of a War Against Iraq". CSIS briefing (20 November 2002).

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