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The Bush administrations and Saddam Hussein : deciding on conflict / Alex Roberto Hybel and Justin Matthew Kaufman.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hybel, Alex Roberto.
Contributor:
Kaufman, Justin Matthew.
Series:
Advances in foreign policy analysis.
Advances in foreign policy analysis
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Persian Gulf War, 1991.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
United States--Foreign relations--Iraq.
United States.
Iraq--Foreign relations--United States.
Iraq.
United States--Foreign relations--1989-.
United States--Military policy.
Bush, George, 1924-2018.
Bush, George.
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-.
Bush, George W.
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006.
Hussein, Saddam.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (209 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The authors present a vital analysis of the foreign policy-making processes of the two Bush administrations prior to the attacks on Iraq. In a thorough comparison, they show how both presidents used historical analogies to evaluate information, relied on instinct to formulate decisions, and drew on moral language to justify their choices.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Two Surprises, Two Wars, Two Presidents, One Family; Chapter One: Alternative Theories of Foreign Policy-Making; Chapter Two: Two Harmful Surprises; Chapter Three: The Logic of Surprise versus the Logic of Surprise Avoidance; Chapter Four: Two Very Different Wars; Chapter Five: The Apple Sometimes Falls Close to the Tree; Chapter Six: The Absence of a Rational Process; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.
ISBN:
9786611360894
9781137357021
1137357029
9781281360892
1281360899
9780230601147
0230601146
OCLC:
315824866

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