The Road to Iraq : The Making of a Neoconservative War EPUB
by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
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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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- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2014
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- ISBN:9780748693054
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2014
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- ISBN:9780748693054