The United States and Iraq since 1979 : : Hegemony, Oil and War / / Steven Hurst.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748627684);This book represents the first comprehensive overview of the US-Iraqi relationship since 1979 and the first attempt to place the 2003 American invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq in that wider historical context.Using a modified version o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2009
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Map 1: The Middle East
  • Map 2: Iraq
  • Acronyms
  • Introduction
  • 1 Towards a New Relationship, 1979–1984
  • 2 From a Tilt to an Embrace, 1984–1989
  • 3 The Persian Gulf War, 1990–1991
  • 4 Dual Containment, 1992–2000
  • 5 A Second War for Hegemony, 2001–2003
  • 6 Things Fall Apart, 2003–2008
  • Conclusions: American Hegemony after the Iraq War
  • Bibliography
  • Index