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UNINA9910828527803321 |
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Titolo |
America and Iraq : policy-making, intervention and regional politics / / edited by David Ryan and Patrick Kiely |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-03672-8 |
1-281-93229-9 |
9786611932299 |
0-203-88634-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary security studies |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KielyPatrick |
RyanDavid <1965-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 |
Iraq Foreign relations United States |
United States Foreign relations Iraq |
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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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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-259) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Eisenhower and regime change in Iraq: The United States and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958; 2 Through distorted lenses: Iraq and balance of power politics 1969-1979; 3 From the 'tilt' to the unintended 'transformation': The United States and Iraq, 1975-1992; 4 Lost in the desert: Lawrence and the theory and practice of counterinsurgency; 5 Grand ambitions and far-reaching failures: The United States in Iraq; 6 The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror: US Central Command and the war in Iraq |
7 What would Jesus do?: Evangelicals, the Iraq War, and the struggle for position8 Against everyone and no-one: The failure of the unipolar in Iraq and beyond; 9 George W. Bush, American exceptionalism and the Iraq War; 10 The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the gateway to imperial crisis: The Bush administration in Iraq; 11 The Imperial Presidency Redux: Presidential power and the war in Iraq; 12 Securing the state: The US and post-war Iraqi border security dynamics; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. Using a range of innovative methods to interrogate US foreign policy, ideology and culture, the book provides a broad set of reflections on past, present and future implications of US-Iraqi relations, and especially the strategic implications for US policy-making. In doing so, it examines several key aspects of relationship such as: the 1958 Iraqi Revolution; the impact of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; the impact of the |
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