The peacebuilding in Iraq: liberal peace, trusteeship or neoimperialism?

• Grant number: 13/10099-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 30, 2013
• End date: November 05, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Reginaldo Mattar Nasser
• Grantee: Reginaldo Mattar Nasser
• Host Investigator: José Manuel Marques da Silva Pureza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade de Coimbra (UC), Portugal

Abstract

It has been noticed over the last years an increasing importance that studies and research in International Relations area has been dedicating to "Peacebuilding" subject. The expectations with the beginning of the troops withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan lead us to inquire whether the Liberal project of peace is in crisis. Can we really consider a Liberal Project, or should we take into account Trusteeship or Imperialism? These are the questions which this project aims to answer on the case of Iraq. The U.S. run their occupations according to their responsibilities as defined under international law? The USA manages their concerns according to their responsibilities defined by the scope of International Law? What is the appropriate role for international community and the United Nations (UN) in the occupation? International Law continues to be the most appropriate guide in the context in which there is justification of Peacebuilding over the aegis of Responsability To Protect (R2P)? We are in understanding the specificities of the US' hegemonic model that focus on issues of local agendas, in so far as it allows us to realize a more forceful evaluation of international administrations. It is intended to connect this real reordering of the State and its respective relations with the society inserting them in other theoretical frameworks of political projects that go beyond the conventional ways of relating territory, State and political authority. Thus, we will be able to rehabilitate certain debates that have become true anathemas since the end of colonialism such as the projects of international tutorship. (AU)