Why Did the United States Invade Iraq?
This edited volume presents the foremost scholarly thinking on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in both modern US foreign policy and international politics. In the years since the US invasion of Iraq it has become clear that the threat of weapons of mass destruction was not as urgent...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis,
2011
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| Series: | Routledge global security studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Why Did the United States Invade Iraq?; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: why did the United States invade Iraq?: Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall; 2. Explaining the war in Iraq: Robert Jervis; 3. Ideas, American grand strategy, and the war in Iraq: Colin Dueck; 4. Ideas and entrepreneurs: a constructivist explanation of the Iraq War: Andrew Flibbert; 5. Explaining the Iraq War: the Israel lobby theory: Jerome Slater; 6. Neoconservatism and American hegemony: Michael Lind.
- 7. Blood for oil, in Iraq and elsewhere: Michael T. Klare8. Oil and the decision to invade Iraq: John S. Duffield; 9. Tony Blair nurtures the special relationship: Jane M.O. Sharp; 10. In pursuit of primacy: why the United States invaded iraq: Jane K. Cramer and Edward C. Duggan; Index.
