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Print Price: $29.95

Format:
Paperback
704 pp.
6.1" x 9.2"

ISBN-13:
9780195398595

Publication date:
February 2010

Imprint: OUP US


The Iraq Papers

Edited by John Ehrenberg, J. Patrice McSherry, José Ramon Sánchez and Caroleen Marji Sayej

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.

Readership : Suitable for general and college courses in strategic studies, IR and political theory, and US foreign policy.

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. The Limits of Preemption: The United States in the World

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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 Ramon 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.

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Special Features

  • Definitive collection of documents relating to the most important war in the post-Cold war era.
  • Well organized volume that approaches the war both thematically and chronologically.
  • Covers the war in its entirety, from its origins in neoconservative think tanks in the 1990s to the beginning of the Obama administration.