The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War
Language: English
Published by Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2014
- Softcover
- Used

Seller: Berthoff Books, Harpers Ferry, WV, U.S.A.Berthoff Books
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326 pages, with index and bibliography, abbreviations list. The author has been an analys for the BBC and Al Jazeera. Trade paperback, practically no shelf wear, mild crease to front top corner, front-matter pages accidentally dog-eared at top, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.
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- Title
- The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War
- Author
- Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Near fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0748693033
- ISBN 13
- 9780748693030
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
- Dimensions
- 2.29 centimeters width by 23.37 centimeters height by 15.49 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- English History, Melville, Middle East
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'.
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