US foreign policy and the Gulf Wars : decision-making and international relations / Ahmed Ijaz Malik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malik, Ahmed Ijaz, author.

Series:

Library of international relations (Series) ; 69.

The library of international relations ; 69

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Persian Gulf War, 1991.

Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.

Middle East.

United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Other Title:

United States foreign policy and the Gulf Wars

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The US-led coalition which launched an invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003 led to a decade-long military presence in the country. In the run-up to that invasion, many comparisons were made with the 1991 Gulf War. Ahmed Ijaz Malik takes these two instances of military intervention by Republican US governments to highlight how the official discourse of leaders and decision-makers has an impact on foreign policy and its results. By taking these two examples, he examines how discourse affects real events, and the extent to which the legacy of the Cold War has influenced the decisions which are made at the upper echelons of the US government.--Provided by publsier."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1 Development of the theoretical perspective

1. Post-cold war academic and intellectual arguments on the use of force by the development of liberal cosmopolitan discourses

2. Post-cold war realist and neoconservative discourses on US foreign policy

Part 2 Discursive analysis comprising factual data analysis

3. President G.H.W. Bush's administration and the 1991 Gulf War

4. President G.W. Bush's administration, 9/11, the 2003 Gulf War and 2005 elections in Iraq

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-285) and index.

ISBN:

9780755608652

0755608658

9781322666532

1322666539

9780857725301

0857725300

9780857738905

0857738909

OCLC:

900606399