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Fights about rules: the role of efficacy and power in changing multilateralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2006

Extract

The American-led Iraq war that began in 2003 has generated intense discussion about when it is legitimate to use force and what force can accomplish. Often this debate is portrayed as a breakdown in consensus, with the US charting a new unilateralist course that undermines existing multilateral understandings of how force should be used. Often, too, the debate is portrayed as a transatlantic one in which Europeans (notably France, supported by Germany) are leading the multilateralist defence against growing US unilateralism.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2005 British International Studies Association

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