America and Iraq  policy-making, intervention and regional politics /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by David Ryan and Patrick Kiely. 
 - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;  New York :  Routledge,  2009. 
 - xviii, 268 p. :  maps. 
 - Contemporary security studies .
 - Contemporary security studies. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>1. Eisenhower and regime change in Iraq : the United States and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958 / Kenneth Osgood -- 2. Through distorted lenses : Iraq and balance of power politics 1969-1979 / Patrick Kiely -- 3. From the 'tilt' to the unintended 'transformation' : the United States and Iraq, 1975-1992 / David Ryan -- 4. Lost in the desert : Lawrence and the theory and practice of counterinsurgency / Marilyn B. Young -- 5. Grand ambitions and far-reaching failures : the United States in Iraq / Toby Dodge -- 6. The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror : U.S. Central Command and the war in Iraq / John Morrissey -- 7. What would Jesus do? : evangelicals, the Iraq War, and the struggle for position / Melani McAlister -- 8. Against everyone and no-one : the failure of the unipolar in Iraq and beyond / Scott Lucas and Maria Ryan -- 9. George W. Bush, American exceptionalism and the Iraq War / Trevor B. McCrisken -- 10. The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the gateway to imperial crisis : the Bush administration in Iraq / Cary Fraser -- 11. The Imperial Presidency redux : presidential power and the war in Iraq / Jon Roper -- 12. Securing the state : the U.S. and post-war Iraqi border security dynamics / James Denselow. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203886342 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Iraq War, 2003-
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Foreign relations--Iraq.<br/>Iraq--Foreign relations--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.