Absrtact: Without the authorization of the UN Security Council, the United States bypassed the UN Security Council and launched a war to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, which destroyed the foundation of international law. Many American military technologies made their debut and were used in this war. In this context, the article aims to briefly introduce the law of war and armed conflict in international law, the historical evolution of international law against war and the new problems faced by international law.
Keywords: Iraq; War; international law
2. What did the United States get from the Iraq war?
The global powers confront the regional powers, the economic interests behind the war, and the impact of the Iraq war on the American economy and even the world economy.
3 Iraq War and the return of geopolitics
Before and after the Iraq war, international media, international academic circles and critics regarded "geopolitics" as one of the most commonly used categories to interpret the war and how it would affect the world situation. In the past ten years since the end of the Cold War, we can find that there have been two upsurge in the use of geopolitics: the first time was after the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, 199 1, which was generally regarded by international media and academic critics as a truly great geopolitical change; This Iraq war is the second time. Why did the "geopolitics" craze resurface against the background of the second Iraq war in the spring of 2003? To what extent did the Iraq war cause great changes in the geopolitical pattern? What are the motives and characteristics of this geopolitical change? How will it affect the future trend of the international community?
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