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The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait : religion, identity, and otherness in the analysis of war and conflict /

The purpose of this book is to understand and explain the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: to understand the motivation of the Iraqi polity, and the conditions, in particular the Arabic discourse, which accelerated and facilitated the decision. Western accounts of the invasion have tended to ignore the Ara...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hassan, Hamdi A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.
Colección:Critical Studies on Islam Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Understanding the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait. 1. Introduction
  • - 2. The Realist Perspective
  • - 3. The Institutional Perspective
  • - 4. The Reflective Perspective
  • -- II. The Realist Perspective. 1. Introduction
  • - 2. The Realist Perspective: A Theoretical Outline
  • - 3. Iraq's Assessment When Invading Kuwait
  • - 4. American-Iraqi relations 1984-90
  • -- III. The Institutional Perspective. 1. Introduction
  • - 2. The Institutional Perspective: A Theoretical Outline
  • - 3. The Overlapping of Identities
  • - 4. The Domestic Sources of the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
  • - 5. The Genealogy of the Political Elites in the Arab World
  • - 6. The Question of Mitigating Iraq's Economic Needs
  • -- IV. The Reflective Perspective. 1. Introduction
  • - 2. The Reflective Perspective: A Theoretical Outline
  • - 3. Islam and Arabism: The Genealogy of a Discursive Regime
  • - 4. The Arabic Political Discourse and the Invasion of Kuwait.