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America and Iraq : policy-making, intervention and regional politics /

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ryan, David, 1965-, Kiely, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, ©2009.
Colección:Contemporary security studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / David Ryan
  • Eisenhower and regime change in Iraq : the United States and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958 / Kenneth Osgood
  • Through distorted lenses : Iraq and balance of power politics, 1969-1979 / Patrick Kiely
  • From the 'tilt' to the unintended 'transformation' : the United States and Iraq, 1975-1992 / David Ryan
  • Lost in the desert : Lawrence and the theory and practice of counterinsurgency / Marilyn B. Young
  • Grand ambitions and far-reaching failures : the United States in Iraq / Toby Dodge
  • The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror : U.S. Central Command and the war in Iraq / John Morrissey
  • What would Jesus do? : evangelicals, the Iraq War and the struggle for position / Melani McAlister
  • Against everyone and no-one : the failure of the unipolar in Iraq and beyond / Scott Lucas and Maria Ryan
  • George W. Bush, American exceptionalism and the Iraq War / Trevor B. McCrisken
  • The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the gateway to imperial crisis : the Bush administration in Iraq / Cary Fraser
  • The Imperial Presidency Redux : presidential power and the war in Iraq / Jon Roper
  • Securing the state : the U.S. and post-war Iraqi border security dynamics / James Denselow.