American intervention in Iraq: impacts of the de-Ba'athification process

The bachelor thesis titled "American intervention in Iraq: impacts of the de-Ba'athification process" is dedicated to United States influence in this process, its impacts on Iraqis and the future development of the country. De-Ba'athification process was part of US policy in post- intervention Iraq. The intervention in Iraq took place following Al Qaeda's terrorist attack on the towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Using the example of the first order of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the thesis analyses the success of the transition to democracy and the mechanism of transitional justice that the US chose in the transformation of Iraq. The CPA, led by its administrator Paul Bremer, was responsible for the administration of the country after the US invasion, and the first order was the most important feature of the whole process. Its goal was to remove any security threat to the coalition forces on Iraqi territory, to cleanse the country of Ba'athist regular members and associates and ban them from future employment in the public sector. The work assessed the effectiveness of the transitional justice mechanism concerning the social group that was punished during the de- Ba'athification process. These consequences have had and continue to have an impact on the development of the Iraqi..