TY  - GEN
T1  - The Road to Iraq : the Making of a Neoconservative War.
T2  - Edinburgh scholarship online.
A1  - Ahmad, Muhammad Idrees
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn888747321
AB  - 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.
OP  - 337
CN  - DS79.757
SN  - 9780748693047
SN  - 0748693041
SN  - 9780748693054
SN  - 074869305X
SN  - 1474406084
SN  - 9781474406086
SN  - 1322059764
SN  - 9781322059761
SN  - 9780748693023
SN  - 9780748693030
SN  - 0748693025
SN  - 0748693033
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011 : Political aspects : United States.
KW  - Conservatism : United States : History : 21st century.
KW  - United States : Foreign relations : Iraq.
KW  - Iraq : Foreign relations : United States.
KW  - Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 : Aspect politique : États-Unis.
KW  - Conservatisme : États-Unis : Histoire : 21e siècle.
KW  - États-Unis : Relations extérieures : Irak.
KW  - Irak : Relations extérieures : États-Unis.
KW  - HISTORY : Middle East : General.
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Iraq
KW  - United States
KW  - 2000-2099
KW  - History
ER  -