| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 268 pages) : maps |
| Series |
Contemporary security studies |
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Contemporary security studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction / David Ryan -- Eisenhower and regime change in Iraq : the United States and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958 / Kenneth Osgood -- Through distorted lenses : Iraq and balance of power politics, 1969-1979 / Patrick Kiely -- From the 'tilt' to the unintended 'transformation' : the United States and Iraq, 1975-1992 / David Ryan -- Lost in the desert : Lawrence and the theory and practice of counterinsurgency / Marilyn B. Young -- Grand ambitions and far-reaching failures : the United States in Iraq / Toby Dodge -- The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror : U.S. Central Command and the war in Iraq / John Morrissey -- What would Jesus do? : evangelicals, the Iraq War and the struggle for position / Melani McAlister -- Against everyone and no-one : the failure of the unipolar in Iraq and beyond / Scott Lucas and Maria Ryan -- George W. Bush, American exceptionalism and the Iraq War / Trevor B. McCrisken -- The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the gateway to imperial crisis : the Bush administration in Iraq / Cary Fraser -- The Imperial Presidency Redux : presidential power and the war in Iraq / Jon Roper -- Securing the state : the U.S. and post-war Iraqi border security dynamics / James Denselow |
| Summary |
This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the current conflict. Using a range of innovative methods to interrogate US foreign policy, ideology and culture, the book provides a broad set of reflections on past, present and future implications of US-Iraqi relations, and especially the strategic implications for US policy-making. In doing so, it examines several key aspects of relationship such as: the 1958 Iraqi Revolution; the impact of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; the impact of the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-259) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq
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Iraq -- Foreign relations -- United States
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| Subject |
Iraq
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ryan, David, 1965-
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Kiely, Patrick.
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| ISBN |
9780203886342 |
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0203886348 |
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9786611932299 |
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6611932291 |
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1134036728 |
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9781134036721 |
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1281932299 |
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9781281932297 |
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9781134036714 |
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113403671X |
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