America and Iraq [ policy-making, intervention and regional politics

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kiely, Patrick (Author), Ryan, David , 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London;New York : Routledge , c2009
Series:Contemporary security studies
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Online Access:NetLibrary

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245 1 0 |a America and Iraq [  |h electronic resource] :   |b policy-making, intervention and regional politics   |c edited by David Ryan and Patrick Kiely 
260 |a London;New York :   |b Routledge ,   |c c2009 
300 |a 1 online resource (xviii, 268 p.) :   |b maps 
490 1 |a Contemporary security studies 
500 |a Description based on print version record 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p 252-259) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Eisenhower and regime change in Iraq : the United States and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958 -- 3. Through distorted lenses : Iraq and balance of power politics, 1969-1979 -- 4. From the 'tilt' to the unintended 'transformation' : the United States and Iraq, 1975-1992 -- 5. Lost in the desert : Lawrence and the theory and practice of counterinsurgency -- 6. Grand ambitions and far-reaching failures : the United States in Iraq -- 7. The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror : U.S. Central Command and the war in Iraq -- 8. What would Jesus do? : evangelicals, the Iraq War and the struggle for position -- 9. Against everyone and no-one : the failure of the unipolar in Iraq and beyond -- 10. George W. Bush, American exceptionalism and the Iraq War -- 11. The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the gateway to imperial crisis : the Bush administration in Iraq -- 12. The Imperial Presidency Redux : presidential power and the war in Iraq -- 13. Securing the state : the U.S. and post-war Iraqi border security dynamics 
650 0 |a Iraq War, 2003- 
651 0 |a Iraq   |x Foreign relations   |z United States 
651 0 |a United States   |x Foreign relations   |z Iraq 
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700 1 |a Ryan, David ,   |d 1965- ,   |e author 
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