America and Iraq (eBook, ePUB)

Policy-making, Intervention and Regional Politics
Redaktion: Ryan, David; Kiely, Patrick

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134036714
• Artikelnr.: 38443510

Autorenporträt

David Ryan is a member of the Department of History, and Associate Dean, Graduate Studies in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork. Patrick Kiely is a Research Fellow in the Department of History, University College Cork.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Lara Marlowe. Introduction David Ryan 1. Eisenhower and Regime
Change in Iraq: The United States and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958 Kenneth
Osgood 2. Through Distorted Lenses: Iraq and Balance of Power Politics
1969-1979 Patrick Kiely 3. From the 'Tilt' to the Unintended
'Transformation': The United States and Iraq, 1975 - 1992 David Ryan 4.
Lost in the Desert:Lawrence and the Theory and Practice of
Counterinsurgency Marilyn B. Young 5. Grand Ambitions and Far-reaching
Failures: The United States in Iraq Toby Dodge 6. The Geoeconomic Pivot of
the Global War on Terror: US Central Command and the War in Iraq John
Morrissey 7. What Would Jesus Do? Evangelicals, the Iraq War, and the
Struggle for Position Melani McAlister 8. Against Everyone and No-one: The
Failure of the Unipolar in Iraq and Beyond Scott Lucas and Maria Ryan 9.
George W. Bush, American Exceptionalism and the Iraq War Trevor B.
McCrisken 10. The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the Gateway to
Imperial Crisis: The Bush Administration in Iraq Cary Fraser 11. The
Imperial Presidency Redux: Presidential Power and the War in Iraq Jon Roper
12. Securing the State: The US and Post-War Iraqi Border Security Dynamics
James Denselow. Bibliography