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The Road to Iraq : The Making of a Neoconservative War / Muhammad Idrees Ahmad.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 3 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748693023
  • 9780748693047
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.009 22//gereng
LOC classification:
  • DS79.757 .A36 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)