The Iraq Papers (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ehrenberg, John; Sayej, Caroleen Marji; Sanchez, Jose Ramon; Mcsherry, J. Patrice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The decision to invade Iraq launched a new doctrine of preemptive war, mired the American military in an intractable armed conflict, disrupted world petroleum supplies, cost the United States billions of dollars, and damaged or ended the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and Iraqis. Told through a compelling documentary narrative, with incisive editorial commentary, The Iraq Papers is the authoritative, one-volume source for understanding the way that this conflict reshaped the landscape of U.S. foreign policy and international politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199742301
• Artikelnr.: 72256215

Autorenporträt

John Ehrenberg is the author of such books as Servants of Wealth and Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea, winner of the Michael Harrington Prize. J. Patrice McSherry's books include Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America (winner of a Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title of 2006) and Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina. Both are Professors of Political Science at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. José Ramón Sánchez is the author of Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States and is Associate Professor of Political Science at Long Island University, where Caroleen Marji Sayej is Assistant Professor of Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Note to Readers
* Introduction
* PART I: POLICY OF PREEMPTION
* 1.: From Containment to Preemptive War: Iraq and the U.S. in a
Unipolar Moment
* 2.: Organizing for Preemptive War: Iraq and the Presidency of George
W. Bush
* 3.: International Reaction to the War
* 4.: Liberators or Occupiers? The Coalition Provisional Authority
* 5: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, or Civil War?
* PART II: CONSEQUENCES OF A PREEMPTIVE WAR
* 6.: Democracy from Above or Below?
* 7.: Imposing Free Markets? Oil and Privatization
* 8.: Human Rights and International Law: U.S. Methods and Operations
* 9.: Policing Terror vs. a War on Terror
* 10.: : Effects on U.S Democracy
* 11.: The Limits of Preemption: The United States in the World

Rezensionen

This collection of documents traces the rise of the neo-conservatives and reveals their strategic thinking about oil supplies. It provides congressional resolutions, speeches by President Bush, internal security papers, Pentagon planning papers and the report of the Future of Iraq Project. It addresses every aspect of the conflict, from the evolving counter-insurgency strategy to statements by Iraqi resisters and political figures from the Coalition Provisional Authority to Donald Rumsfeld and his dismissal of the insurgents as dead enders and Iraqi discussions about nation-building under the shadow of occupation. Keith Richmond, Deputy Editor of Tribune, Government Gazette