The road to Iraq : the making of a neoconservative war / / Muhammad Idrees Ahmad [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 956.704431 |
| Soggetto topico: | Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Causes |
| Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Political aspects - United States | |
| Conservatism - United States - History - 21st century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations Iraq |
| Iraq Foreign relations United States | |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 sparked after the publication of The Israel lobby and US Foreign Policy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The road to Iraq |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-9303-3 |
| 1-4744-0608-4 | |
| 0-7486-9304-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826653103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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