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Collateral Benefit: Iraq and Increased Legitimacy for International Trusteeship
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 53, Number 2, Spring 2006 (whole No. 223)
- pp. 72-75
- 10.1353/dss.2006.0085
- Article
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It takes an almost reckless optimism to find a silver lining in the abject failure of basic institutions, let alone democracy, to take root in postwar Iraq. But look hard enough and it's possible to discern one: enhanced legitimacy in the international community for what has been called "neotrusteeship," an arrangement whereby multilateral institutions temporarily govern states that have collapsed in spasms of misrule and violent conflict.