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
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