TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahmad,Muhammad Idrees
TI  - The road to Iraq: the making of a neoconservative war 
SN  - 9780748693030 (paperback)
U1  - 956.70443 22
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Causes
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Iraq
KW  - BUSBOL
KW  - February2020
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - A rigorous investigation into the socio-political milieu that produced the Iraq war. 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
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