What We Owe Iraq

In his just released book What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building, Noah Feldman presents a penetrating analysis of the present and future complexities involved in rebuilding Iraq. He fosters an urgent discussion on why America's ethical obligations to the Iraqi people should be at the forefront of the nation building process. Drawing on both historic and modern day examples, Feldman reveals why Iraq poses more ethical dilemmas than any prior nation undertaking. He offers a coherent case on how and why the U.S. should live up to its moral commitment to the Iraqi people in order to produce a democratic and free nation.

As Associate Professor of Law at New York University and author of the best-selling book After Jihad, Noah Feldman has seen the enormous challenges facing Iraq firsthand. He served as an advisor in 2003 to the Coalition authorities and, later to the Iraqi Governing Council charged with creating Iraq's interim constitution.

Please join us for a discussion focusing on the war and ethics of nation building including the need to balance America's self-interests with those of the Iraqi people.

Participants

• Noah Feldman
  Former Senior Advisor for Constitutional Law, Office of Reconstruction & Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq, Author, After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy and Professor of Law, New York University


• Steven C. Clemons
  Senior Fellow and Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation