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policy-making, intervention and regional politics
1 online resource (xviii, 268 p.) : maps
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
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Includes bibliographical references (p 252-259) and index