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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458260303321

Autore

Hurst Steven

Titolo

The United States and Iraq since 1979 [[electronic resource] ] : hegemony, oil and war / / Steven Hurst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-7486-7210-9

1-282-62014-2

9786612620140

0-7486-3164-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

327.730567

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations Iraq

Iraq Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations 1977-1981

United States Foreign relations 1981-1989

United States Foreign relations 1989-

Iraq Foreign relations 1979-1991

Iraq Foreign relations 1991-2003

Iraq Foreign relations 2003-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Map 1: The Middle East; Map 2: Iraq; Acronyms; Introduction; Chapter 1: Towards a New Relationship, 1979-1984; Chapter 2: From a Tilt to an Embrace, 1984-1989; Chapter 3: The Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991; Chapter 4: Dual Containment, 1992-2000; Chapter 5: A Second War for Hegemony, 2001-2003; Chapter 6: Things Fall Apart, 2003-2008; Conclusions: American Hegemony after the Iraq War; Bibliography; Untitled

Sommario/riassunto

This book represents the first comprehensive overview of the US-Iraqi relationship since 1979 and the first attempt to place the 2003 American invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq in that wider historical context.Using a modified version of World Systems Theory,



the book places American policy toward Iraq at the centre of a number of dynamics, including America's dominant role in managing the world capitalist system, the fundamental importance of Persian Gulf oil to that system, and long-term change in the American political system.It argues that American policy towards Iraq since 1979 h