The Iraq War and Democratic Politics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Danchev, Alex; Macmillan, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the meaning of the 2003 Iraq war for democratic politics. It shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134265695
• Artikelnr.: 43074158

Autorenporträt

Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. His research interests include international history, diplomacy, security, and, latterly, culture. Much of his previous work has been biographical. His biography of the philosopher-statesman Oliver Franks (1993) was one of the Observer's 'Books of the Year'. His biography of the military writer Basil Liddell Hart (1998) was listed for the Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. His unexpurgated edition of the Alanbrooke Diaries (2001, with Daniel Todman) was listed for the W. H. Smith Biography Award. John MacMillan is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Brunel University. Recent publications include Boundaries in Question: New Directions in International Relations (edited with Andrew Linklater), On Liberal Peace (1998), 'The Power of the Pen', Millennium (1998), and 'A Kantian Protest Against the Peculiar Discourse of Liberal Peace' (2001)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Iraq War and Democratic Politics 2. The Global Setting:
US foreign Policy and the Future of the Middle East 3. Bush's War: The Iraq
conflict and American Democracy 4. The Neo-Cons: Neo-Conservative Thinking
Since the onset of the Iraq War 5. The United Kingdom 6. The European
dimension 7. Turkey: Democratic Legitimacy 8. 'It seemed the best thing to
be up and go': On the Legal Case for Invading Iraq 9. The Transition to
Democracy in Iraq: Historical Legacies, Resurgent Identities and
Reactionary Tendencies 10. The Democratic Transition in Iraq and the
Discovery of its Limitations 11. Iraq, Political Reconstruction and Liberal
Theory 12. Afghanistan and Iraq: Failed States, or Democracy on Hold? 13.
The Iraq Body Count Project: Civil Society and the Democratic Deficit 14.
Story Development, or, Walter Mitty the Undefeated Index