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The politics of intelligence and American wars with Iraq / Ofira Seliktar.
Van Pelt Library E183.8.I57 S44 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seliktar, Ofira.
- Series:
- Middle East in focus series
- The Middle East in focus
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Foreign relations--Iraq.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Iraq.
- Iraq--Foreign relations--United States.
- Intelligence service--United States.
- Intelligence service.
- Persian Gulf War, 1991.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Intervention (International law).
- United States--Foreign relations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 214 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- This book offers an integrative and longitudinal, time-line based analysis of the highly complex process of transforming abstract political paradigms to applied policy on Iraq.& To accomplish this task it demonstrates how scholars have conceptualized political change and applied it to the Middle East in general and Iraq in particular, how public intellectuals and other players have used these assumptions to advocate an array of applied policies, and how such discourse informed the four American administrations that have dealt with Iraq and the intelligence community that have advised them.&&
- Contents:
- Introduction: the theory and practice of predicting political change
- Paradigmatic views of political change in the Middle East: Arab exceptionalism and the international order
- Paradigms of change and American foreign policy toward Iraq in the 1980s: moderating a totalitarian regime and the road to the Gulf War
- Containing a rogue state: the Iraq policy of the Clinton administration
- September Eleven, the Bush administration and the ascendance of the neoconservative vision of democratic universalism
- The buildup to Operation Iraqi Freedom: implementing democratic universalism
- Operation Iraqi Freedom: the rise and fall of democratic universalism
- Reflections on the Iraqi predictive predicament.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230604536
- 9780230604537
- OCLC:
- 154678013
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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