| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Series |
Edinburgh scholarship online |
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Edinburgh scholarship online
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| Contents |
Title page; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part 1 The Argument; Introduction; 1 Black Gold and Red Herrings; Part 2 The Rise of the Neoconservatives; 2 Origins and Interests; 3 Ideology and Institutions; 4 Setting the Agenda; 5 Selling the War; Part 4 The Debate; Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
A rigorous investigation into the socio-political milieu that produced the Iraq war. Despite all that has been written on it, the Iraq war - its causes, agency and execution - has been shrouded in an ideological mist. Now, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad dispels the myths surrounding the war, taking a sociological approach to establish the war's causes, identify its agents and describe how it was sold. Ahmad presents a social history of the war's leading agents - the neoconservatives - and shows how this ideologically coherent group of determined political agents used the contingency of 9/11 to overwhelm a sceptical foreign policy establishment, military brass and intelligence apparatus, propelling the US into a war that a significant portion of the public opposed. The book includes an historical exploration of American militarism and of the increased post-WWII US role in the Middle East, as well as a reconsideration of the debates that John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt sparked after the publication of The Israel lobby and US Foreign Policy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-319) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Political aspects -- United States
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Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Conservatism
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Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq
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Iraq -- Foreign relations -- United States
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| Subject |
Iraq
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748693047 |
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0748693041 |
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9780748693054 |
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074869305X |
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1474406084 |
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9781474406086 |
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