Why did the United States invade Iraq?
By: edited by Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall
Series: Routledge global security studies; Routledge global security studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780415782128; 9780415782135; 9780203804568
Subjects: Strategic aspects; Iraq War, 2003-; Causes; Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why did the United States invade Iraq? / Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall; title: Explaining the war in Iraq / Robert Jervis; title: Ideas, American grand strategy, and the war in Iraq / Colin Dueck; title: Ideas and entrepreneurs : a constructivist explanation of the Iraq War / Andrew Flibbert; title: Explaining the Iraq War : the Israel lobby theory / Jerome Slater; title: Neoconservatism and American hegemony / Michael Lind; title: Blood for oil, in Iraq and elsewhere / Michael Klare; title: Oil and the decision to invade Iraq / John S. Duffield; title: Tony Blair nurtures the special relationship / Jane M.O. Sharp; title: In pursuit of primacy : why the United States invaded Iraq / Jane K. Cramer and Edward C. Duggan.