TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahmad,Muhammad Idrees
TI  - The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War 
SN  - 9780748693023
AV  - DS79.757 .A36 2014
U1  - 355.009 22//gereng
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Causes
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Politics
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Part 1 The Argument --; Part 2 The Rise of the Neoconservatives --; Part 3 The Case for War --; Part 4 The Debate --; Appendix --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - A rigorous investigation into the socio-political milieu that produced the Iraq warDespite 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748693047?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748693047
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748693047/original
ER  -