America and Iraq : policy-making, intervention and regional politics / / edited by David Ryan and Patrick Kiely

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.730567
• Soggetto topico: Iraq War, 2003-2011
• Soggetto geografico: Iraq Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations Iraq
• Altri autori: KielyPatrick RyanDavid <1965->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-259) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: America and Iraq
• ISBN: 1-134-03672-8; 1-281-93229-9; 9786611932299; 0-203-88634-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828527803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary security studies.