02583cam a22003855i 4500 28016 27987 18344735 EG-ScBUE 20200210095422.0 141023t20142014stka f b 001 0 eng d 9780748693030 (paperback) 0748693033 (paperback) (OCoLC)ocn887094521 NLE eng NLE rda OCLCO CUD EYM YDXCP DGU BTCTA BDX DLC EG-ScBUE n-us--- a-iq--- 956.70443 AHM 22 Ahmad, Muhammad Idrees, author. The road to Iraq : the making of a neoconservative war / Muhammad Idrees Ahmad. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014] c2014 x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Iraq War, 2003-2011 Causes. BUEsh Iraq War, 2003-2011 Political aspects United States. BUEsh Conservatism United States History 21st century. BUEsh United States Foreign relations Iraq. BUEsh 10269 Iraq Foreign relations United States. BUEsh 10270 BUSBOL February2020 Also available online: Ahmad, Muhammad Idrees. Road to Iraq. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014] 1322059764 (OCoLC)888353051 ddc BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2020-02-09 Purchase 378.00 34036 0 956.70443 AHM 000046727 2025-07-15 00:00:00 472.50 2020-02-09 BB