The road to Iraq : the making of a neoconservative war / Muhammad Idrees Ahmad.
Material type: TextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]Copyright date: c2014Description: x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780748693030 (paperback)
- 0748693033 (paperback)
- 956.70443 AHM 22
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A rigorous investigation into the socio-political milieu that produced the Iraq war. 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.
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