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Zusatztext This collection of documents traces the rise of the neo-conservatives and reveals their strategic thinking about oil supplies. It provides congressional resolutions, speeches by President Bush, internal security papers, Pentagon planning papers and the report of the Future of Iraq Project. It addresses every aspect of the conflict, from the evolving counter-insurgency strategy to statements by Iraqi resisters and political figures from the Coalition Provisional Authority to Donald Rumsfeld and his dismissal of the insurgents as dead enders and Iraqi discussions about nation-building under the shadow of occupation. Informationen zum Autor John Ehrenberg is the author of such books as Servants of Wealth and Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea, winner of the Michael Harrington Prize. J. Patrice McSherry's books include Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America (winner of a Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title of 2006) and Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina. Both are Professors of Political Science at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. José Ramón Sánchez is the author of Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States and is Associate Professor of Political Science at Long Island University, where Caroleen Marji Sayej is Assistant Professor of Political Science. Klappentext The decision to invade Iraq launched a new doctrine of preemptive war, mired the American military in an intractable armed conflict, disrupted world petroleum supplies, cost the United States billions of dollars, and damaged or ended the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and Iraqis. Told through a compelling documentary narrative, with incisive editorial commentary, The Iraq Papers is the authoritative, one-volume source for understanding the way that this conflict reshaped the landscape of U.S. foreign policy and international politics. Zusammenfassung The Iraq Papers will be the most comprehensive and best-organized document collection of America's misadventure in Iraq. The editors have organized the book around the concept of pre-emption, a policy that represented a significant break with past American foreign policy. The editors locate the intellectual origins of pre-emption in neoconservative writings from the early 1990s, and then trace how the logic of pre-emption played out across a number of arenas in the first decade of the twenty first century: the war itself, America's relationship with its allies and the UN, its dealings with Iraqi society and successive Iraqi governments after 2003, and domestic policy in the Bush-era United States. They close with a chapter on the limits of American policy as it moves into the Obama era. There are eleven chapters in total, and ten will feature a representative selection of the most important documents relating to the origins of the war-including prominent writings by early neoconservative advocates for invasion-and the war's impact on Iraq, America, and the world. Covering more than a decade, The Iraq Papers will be a definitive source for anyone interested in understanding this enormously complicated and difficult conflict. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Note to Readers Introduction PART I: POLICY OF PREEMPTION 1.: From Containment to Preemptive War: Iraq and the U.S. in a Unipolar Moment 2.: Organizing for Preemptive War: Iraq and the Presidency of George W. Bush 3.: International Reaction to the War 4.: Liberators or Occupiers? The Coalition Provisional Authority 5: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, or Civil War? PART II: CONSEQUENCES OF A PREEMPTIVE WAR 6.: Democracy from Above or Below? 7.: Imposing Free Markets? Oil and Privatization 8.: Human Rights and International Law: U.S. Methods and Operations 9.: Policing Terror vs. a War on Terror 10.: : Effects on U.S Democracy 11.: Th...
