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The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War

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Availability:In StockContributor:Muhammad Idrees AhmadPublish date:2014-06-30Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9780748693030ISBN-10:748693033UPC:9780748693030Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, Wars & Conflicts, ModernBook Topic:Great Britain, Persian Gulf War (1991), 21st CenturySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCYE4MQ6FB

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'.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9780748693030ISBN-10:748693033UPC:9780748693030Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, Wars & Conflicts, ModernBook Topic:Great Britain, Persian Gulf War (1991), 21st CenturySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCYE4MQ6FB

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad is a Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the University of Stirling. He has a doctorate in Sociology and his articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Al Jazeera, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, Guernica, Adbusters, IPS News, Political Insight and the London Review of Books blog. He has also appeared as a political analyst on the BBC, Al Jazeera, RAI TV, and various international radio channels. He edits Pulsemedia.org.


Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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