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Ahmad Muhammad Idrees |
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Titolo |
The road to Iraq : the making of a neoconservative war / / Muhammad Idrees Ahmad [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-7486-9303-3 |
1-4744-0608-4 |
0-7486-9304-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Edinburgh scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Causes |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Political aspects - United States |
Conservatism - United States - History - 21st century |
United States Foreign relations Iraq |
Iraq Foreign relations United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part 1. The Argument. Introduction ; Black Gold and Red Herrings -- Part 2. The Rise of the Neoconservatives. Origins and Interests ; Ideology and Institutions -- Part 3. The Case for War. Setting the Agenda ; Selling the War -- Part 4. The Debate. Conclusions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Despite all that has been written on it, the Iraq war - its causes, agency and execution - has been shrouded in an ideological mist. Now, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad dispels the myths surrounding the war, taking a sociological approach to establish the war's causes, identify its agents and describe how it was sold. Ahmad presents a social history of the war's leading agents - the neoconservatives - and shows how this ideologically coherent group of determined political agents used the contingency of 9/11 to overwhelm a sceptical foreign policy establishment, military brass and intelligence apparatus, propelling the US into a war that a significant portion of the public opposed. The book includes an historical exploration of American militarism and of the increased post-WWII US role in the Middle East, as well as a reconsideration of the debates that John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt |
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