Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
Series |
Contemporary Security Studies, 10 |
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Contemporary Security Studies, 10
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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 |
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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.
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Diplomatic relations
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SUBJECT |
Iraq -- Foreign relations -- United States
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq
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Subject |
Iraq
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kiely, Patrick
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ISBN |
9780203886342 |
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0203886348 |
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