TY - BOOK AU - Ryan,David AU - Kiely,Patrick TI - America and Iraq: policy-making, intervention and regional politics T2 - Contemporary security studies SN - 9780203886342 (electronic bk.) PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Iraq War, 2003- KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Iraq N1 - Description based on print version record; Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-259) and index; Introduction / David Ryan -- Eisenhower and regime change in Iraq : the United States and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958 / Kenneth Osgood -- Through distorted lenses : Iraq and balance of power politics, 1969-1979 / Patrick Kiely -- From the 'tilt' to the unintended 'transformation' : the United States and Iraq, 1975-1992 / David Ryan -- Lost in the desert : Lawrence and the theory and practice of counterinsurgency / Marilyn B. Young -- Grand ambitions and far-reaching failures : the United States in Iraq / Toby Dodge -- The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror : U.S. Central Command and the war in Iraq / John Morrissey -- What would Jesus do? : evangelicals, the Iraq War and the struggle for position / Melani McAlister -- Against everyone and no-one : the failure of the unipolar in Iraq and beyond / Scott Lucas and Maria Ryan -- George W. Bush, American exceptionalism and the Iraq War / Trevor B. McCrisken -- The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the gateway to imperial crisis : the Bush administration in Iraq / Cary Fraser -- The Imperial Presidency Redux : presidential power and the war in Iraq / Jon Roper -- Securing the state : the U.S. and post-war Iraqi border security dynamics / James Denselow UR - http://www.netlibrary.com.libraryumpsa.idm.oclc.org/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=260600 ER -