03485nam 2200601Ia 450 991082852780332120230721003818.01-134-03672-81-281-93229-997866119322990-203-88634-8(CKB)1000000000578814(EBL)401819(OCoLC)437241838(SSID)ssj0000101847(PQKBManifestationID)11126766(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101847(PQKBWorkID)10043981(PQKB)10679880(MiAaPQ)EBC401819(EXLCZ)99100000000057881420080616d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerica and Iraq[electronic resource] policy-making, intervention and regional politics /edited by David Ryan and Patrick KielyLondon ;New York Routledge20091 online resource (289 p.)Contemporary security studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-60936-4 0-415-46621-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-259) and index.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 Iraq7 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; IndexThis 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 Contemporary security studies.Iraq War, 2003-2011IraqForeign relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relationsIraqIraq War, 2003-2011.327.730567Kiely Patrick1647658Ryan David1965-897861MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828527803321America and Iraq3995356UNINA