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Ahmad M (2014) The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-road-to-iraq.html
Abstract
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.
Status | Published |
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Publication date | 31/12/2014 |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
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Place of publication | Edinburgh |
ISBN | 9780748693023 |