TY - BOOK AU - Ahmad,Muhammad Idrees TI - The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War SN - 9780748693047 AV - DS79 .R633 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Great Britain KW - Iraq KW - Iraq War, 2003- KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - Conservatism KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Electronic Books N1 - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=830674&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -