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Home > Resources > Ethics & International Affairs Journal > Volume 20.1 (Spring 2006) > Special Section on Justice after War |
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Accountability and Global Governance: The Case of Iraq [Abstract]
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April 24, 2006
This article explores issues concerning accountability and global governance by
looking at three cases involving Iraq: the economic sanctions imposed by the
Security Council; the operation of the Oil for Food Program; and the US-led
occupation authority and its management of Iraqi funds. In all three cases the
problems that emerge are rooted only in part in criminal acts or failures to
meet legal responsibilities. The failures of accountability that took place in
these cases included also abuses of power and forms of corruption that had been
legitimated within legal institutional structures. An examination of these cases
helps to illustrate what accountability can demand, as well as the kinds of
diverse institutional arrangements that can undermine it. In the Oil for Food
Program, there was corruption despite elaborate structures of oversight. In the
case of the US-led occupation authority’s management of Iraqi funds, the
corruption was tied to systematic procedures that eliminated structures of
oversight. I argue that the abuses that occurred in these cases were not due to
a lack of understanding about what might bring greater integrity to the
processes involved. Rather, they illustrate how well the structures of
accountability and integrity were already understood, as evidenced in the
systematic efforts to evade and compromise those structures.
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