America and Iraq [ policy-making, intervention and regional politics
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London;New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Series: | Contemporary security studies
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 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