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Why did the United States invade Iraq? / edited by Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall.
Van Pelt Library DS79.757 .W49 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge global security studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Causes.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Iraq--Strategic aspects.
- Iraq.
- United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Summary:
- Part of a series on global security issues, this collection of ten essays on US foreign policy examines current scholarship surrounding the rational for the US invasion of Iraq and explores competing narratives developed in the nine years since the invasion. Topics discussed include ideology and an American "grand strategy" for the Middle East, the Israel lobby theory, neoconservatism and American hegemony, oil, energy policy, and the Iraq invasion. Chapters include numerous tables outlining sociological data and other statistical information. The contributors are academics in political science and related fields from major US universities. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction : why did the United States invade Iraq? / Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall
- Explaining the war in Iraq / Robert Jervis
- Ideas, American grand strategy, and the war in Iraq / Colin Dueck
- Ideas and entrepreneurs : a constructivist explanation of the Iraq War / Andrew Flibbert
- Explaining the Iraq War : the Israel lobby theory / Jerome Slater
- Neoconservatism and American hegemony / Michael Lind
- Blood for oil, in Iraq and elsewhere / Michael Klare
- Oil and the decision to invade Iraq / John S. Duffield
- Tony Blair nurtures the special relationship / Jane M.O. Sharp
- In pursuit of primacy : why the United States invaded Iraq / Jane K. Cramer and Edward C. Duggan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415782128
- 0415782120
- 9780415782135
- 0415782139
- 9780203804568
- 0203804562
- OCLC:
- 651914561
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