Abstract

Increasing legibility is now available through NGO and U.N. data, which has been collected across Iraq, for an assessment of the contemporary state of social welfare amongst Iraqi children and the residual effects of the regime change that took place in 2003. This data will be examined, contextualized to the post-2003 period and the potential for theory-building will be explored. The picture that emerges suggests the level of humanitarian catastrophe resulting from the U.S.-led 2003 invasion and occupation recommends further interrogation of the policy of ‘regime change’ for its role in informing U.S. actions. Additionally, such catastrophic humanitarian outcomes lead to questions surrounding future use of regime change efforts. The Iraqi case exhibits the destruction of the state apparatus, with social and cultural institutions built from Iraq's 1932 independence, rather than a direct replacement of those ruling the state. Iraqi children, not yet born when the 2003 invasion took place, have borne the brunt of the Iraqi state's destruction, with an absence of care from those who carried out the change in regime.

Highlights

  • Increasing legibility is available through NGO and U.N. data, which has been collected across Iraq, for an assessment of the contemporary state of social welfare amongst Iraqi children and the residual effects of the regime change that took place in 2003

  • The Iraqi state has failed to return to its pre-war capabilities for the provision of social goods, in some sectors failing to reach even the blunted levels experienced during the “sanctions decade” that followed 1991 (Amnesty International, 2005)

  • Political actors have attempted to blunt criticisms of the U.N.-managed sanctions regime and the war and occupation efforts led by the U.S This state of affairs was further exacerbated with the physical destruction of government records during the 2003 invasion, soon thereafter followed by the dispersal of much of Iraq’s institutional knowledge when Iraqi professionals left the country for safer environs (Ismael, 2015)

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Introduction

Increasing legibility is available through NGO and U.N. data, which has been collected across Iraq, for an assessment of the contemporary state of social welfare amongst Iraqi children and the residual effects of the regime change that took place in 2003. Political actors have attempted to blunt criticisms of the U.N.-managed sanctions regime and the war and occupation efforts led by the U.S This state of affairs was further exacerbated with the physical destruction of government records during the 2003 invasion, soon thereafter followed by the dispersal of much of Iraq’s institutional knowledge when Iraqi professionals left the country for safer environs (Ismael, 2015).

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