The politics of intelligence and American wars with Iraq / Ofira Seliktar.

Author/creator Seliktar, Ofira
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionx, 214 pages ; 25 cm.
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SeriesThe Middle East in focus
Middle East in focus series. ^A610161
Contents Introduction: the theory and practice of predicting political change -- Paradigmatic views of political change in the Middle East: Arab exceptionalism and the international order -- Paradigms of change and American foreign policy toward Iraq in the 1980s: moderating a totalitarian regime and the road to the Gulf War -- Containing a rogue state: the Iraq policy of the Clinton administration -- September Eleven, the Bush administration and the ascendance of the neoconservative vision of democratic universalism -- The buildup to Operation Iraqi Freedom: implementing democratic universalism -- Operation Iraqi Freedom: the rise and fall of democratic universalism -- Reflections on the Iraqi predictive predicament.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-205) and index.
LCCN 2007027704
ISBN0230604536 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780230604537 (alk. paper)

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