‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’

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‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’

The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was waged by the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing’. This paper will examine how the war was a space in the ongoing geographical extension of global capitalism linked to U.S. foreign policy. Was it simply the decision by a unitary, hegemonic actor in the inter-state sy...

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Main Authors:	Bieler, Andreas, Morton, Adam David
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill 2015
Subjects:	2003 Iraq war class struggle geopolitics global capitalism historical materialism transnational state U.S. industrial-military-academic complex
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35172/

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