Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203886342
Series Statement:
Contemporary Security Studies
Content:
This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the current conflict. Using a range of innovative methods to interrogate US foreign policy, ideology and culture, the book provides a broad set of reflections on past, present and future implications of US-Iraqi relations, and especially the strategic implications for US policy-making. In doing so, it examines several key aspects of relationship such as: the 1958 Iraqi Revolution; the impact of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; the impact of the Nixon Doctrine on the regional balance of power; US attempts at rapprochement during the 1980s; the 1990-91 Gulf War; and, finally, sanctions and inspections. Analysis of the contemporary Iraq crisis sets US plans against the 'reality' they faced in the country, and explores both attempts to bring security to Iraq, and the implications of failure.
Content:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Eisenhower and regime change in Iraq: The United States and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958 -- 2 Through distorted lenses: Iraq and balance of power politics 1969-1979 -- 3 From the 'tilt' to the unintended 'transformation': The United States and Iraq, 1975-1992 -- 4 Lost in the desert: Lawrence and the theory and practice of counterinsurgency -- 5 Grand ambitions and far-reaching failures: The United States in Iraq -- 6 The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror: US Central Command and the war in Iraq -- 7 What would Jesus do?: Evangelicals, the Iraq War, and the struggle for position -- 8 Against everyone and no-one: The failure of the unipolar in Iraq and beyond -- 9 George W. Bush, American exceptionalism and the Iraq War -- 10 The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the gateway to imperial crisis: The Bush administration in Iraq -- 11 The Imperial Presidency Redux: Presidential power and the war in Iraq -- 12 Securing the state: The US and post-war Iraqi border security dynamics -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415466219
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415466219
Additional Edition:
Print version America and Iraq Policy-Making, Intervention and Regional Politics
Language:
English
URL:
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