Beyond Iraq: The Future Of World Order

How does the Iraq War affect the future world order? What kinds of problems has this war brought about, and what is needed to remedy these problems, so as to reconstruct an order in Iraq and beyond? The present volume is a collection of essays exploring these issues, written by leading scholars in their respective fields. Importantly, the Iraq War has caused numerous long-term security and economic problems in Iraq (Chapter 1) and in the Middle East (Chapter 2). In addition, this war represents a failure of the Western liberals' project of establishing a liberal market democracy, and these liberals are likely to repeat the same error elsewhere in the future (Chapter 3). Moreover, the war underlines the crisis in global governance today, but the idea of reforming the United Nations has some serious limitations (Chapter 4). With regard to the issue of terrorism, "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" has been operating in the field for some time, and thus Iraq will likely remain an important global center of terrorism in the foreseeable future (Chapter 5).

List of contents

Introduction (H Katsumata); The Future of Iraq (E Herring); Regional Order in the Middle East (L Fawcett); Just Another Liberal War? Western Interventionism and the Iraq War (N Kitchen & M Cox); The Crisis in Global Governance After the Iraq War (D Armstrong); Terrorist Threat in Iraq: Origins, Development and Impact (R Gunaratna).

Product details

• Authors: Amitav Acharya & Hiro Katsumata
• Assisted by: Amitav Acharya (Editor), Acharya Amitav (Editor), Hiro Katsumata (Editor), Katsumata Hiro (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2011
• EAN: 9789814324809
• ISBN: 978-981-4324-80-9
• Series: Series on the Iraq War and Its; Series On The Iraq War And Its Consequences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, International Relations, Iraq, World Order, Middle East, Global Governance, Terrorism