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Author Ryan, David

Title America and Iraq : Policy-Making, Intervention and Regional Politics
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Series Contemporary Security Studies, 10
Contemporary Security Studies, 10
Contents 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 position8 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 th
Summary 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Diplomatic relations
SUBJECT Iraq -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq
Subject Iraq
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Kiely, Patrick
ISBN 9780203886342
0203886348