Ahmad, Muhammad Idrees.

The Road to Iraq The Making of a Neoconservative War. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (337 pages)

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Title page; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part 1 The Argument; Introduction; 1 Black Gold and Red Herrings; Part 2 The Rise of the Neoconservatives; 2 Origins and Interests; 3 Ideology and Institutions; 4 Setting the Agenda; 5 Selling the War; Part 4 The Debate; Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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, militar.



9780748693047


Great Britain.
Iraq.
Iraq War, 2003-.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Political aspects--United States.
Conservatism--History--United States--21st century.


Electronic Books.

DS79 / .R633 2014