POLI 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Palestinian National Security Forces, September 11 Attacks, First Intifada
28 Sep 2014
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Post-cold war history and dynamics: things weren"t as clear cut as it seemed everyone was playing each other off another and countries were switching sides. Wanted both states to relieve the debt: oil quotas. Oil states agreed on a production quota to keep it stable. Kuwait was overproducing and causing the price to go down which. Overproducing by slant drilling in iraq driving under the border to was harmful to all what iraq saw as their oil: borders, territorial claims. Historically iraq claimed kuwait as its own territory. During interwar period, iraq charged british with artificially creating. Israel-palestine peace process: september 11; iraq war. International response: operation desert storm, us and un respond very quickly to this invasion. Diplomatic call for withdrawal from kuwait, sanctions are put in place, military coalition put together: if iraq is not out of kuwait by jan 15 the international community would invade, us reasons for entering the war.
