Politics Without Principle: Sovereignty, Ethics, and the Narratives of the Gulf War (Critical Perspectives on World Politics)

Examining the discursive practices and political strategies that obscured the complexities of the issues involved in the Gulf region and moved the Gulf crisis toward conflict, Campbell probes the discourse or moral certitude through which the US and its allies located with Iraq, in unambiguous ethical terms, the responsibility for evil. This study examines the discursive practices and political strategies that obscured the issues involved in the Gulf region and moved the crisis toward conflict. In particular, it probes the discourse of moral certitude through which the United States and its allies located with Iraq - in unambiguous ethical terms - the responsibility for evil. 1. War Stories -- 2. Black And White -- 3. Washed In Shades Of Gray I -- 4. Washed In Shades Of Gray Ii -- 5. Sustaining Sovereignty And The Politics Of Principle -- 6. Ethical Engagement And The Practice Of Foreign Policy. David Campbell. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 103-111) And Index. A study of the Gulf conflict examining the discursive practices and political strategies that obscured the issues and promoted the crisis. Campbell then challenges the way IR theory has conventionally understood the questions of agency, power, ethics, responsibility and sovereignty.