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Name: Edmund A. Ghareeb, Ph.D.

Title: Adjunct Professor, School of International Service, American University

Position: No position found to the question "Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq?"

Reasoning:

"The war has had destabilizing as well as stabilizing and unknown effects. It also created new precedence. One is the disruption of the regional balance of power. Turkey, Iran, and Israel are now playing larger roles than before the war. More importantly, the United States is also playing the role, not only of the regional superpower, but of the balancer as well.

The question remains whether the role that United States is playing in Iraq is very similar to the role that brought Britain to the region and let it dominate the Middle East for almost a century when it went to Egypt, or more like what happened to Britain in 1956 when it won a military victory and lost the political war."

"Syria, the Arab World and Challenges of Peacemaking in the Middle East"
March 31, 2004 lecture, University of Utah
Credibility
Ranking:		 Experts
PhD's, JD's (lawyers), Judges, Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Consulate Generals, heads of government, Cabinet-level positions, military generals/admirals, members of legislative bodies with significant involvement in, or related to, the U.S.- Iraq conflict.

Involvement:
  • Adjunct Professor, School of International Service, American University
  • Mustafa Barzani Scholar of Global Kurdish Studies, Center for Global Peace, American University
  • Scholar, Center for Global Peace
  • Former Professor, Georgetown University
  • Former Professor, George Washington University
  • Former Professor, University of Virginia
  • Former Professor, McGill University

Education: None listed

Affiliations/
Honors:
  • Member, Board of Advisory Editors, Middle East Journal
  • Frequently appears on CNN, National Public Radio (NPR), Voice of America (VOA), and al-Jazeera Television
Contact Info:
Phone: 202-885-1600 x3977     Fax: 202-885-2494
E-Mail: ghareeb@american.edu
Web Site: www.american.edu/sis/faculty/facultybiographies/ghareeb.htm

Other: Selected Publications:
  • Historical Dictionary of Iraq, (with the assistance of Beth K. Doughterty), Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2004
  • War in the Gulf, 1990-1991: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications (with co-author Majid Khadduri), Replica Books, 2001
  • "Iraq and Iran: The Years of Crisis," American - Arab Affairs, 03/31/86
  • "Iraq: Eastern Flank of the Arab World," American - Arab Affairs, 03/31/85
  • "A Study of the Iraqi Ba'th Government's Approach to the Kurdish Problem: 1968-1975," Dissertation, Georgetown University, 1978
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