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democratic intervention theory
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EU's Common Foreign
EU's Role
EU’s Common Foreign
EU’s Role
Foreign Minister
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Hutton Inquiry
INC
intelligence and democracy
international law legitimacy
Iraq Body Count
Iraq Survey Group
Iraq's WMD
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Iraqi National Council
Iraq’s WMD
JIC
Liberal Political Theorists
Middle East governance
Muslim World
National Security Strategy
NATO Intervention
neo-conservative policy analysis
Normative Liberal Theorizing
Operation Desert Fox
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Political Reconstruction
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Sunni Arabs
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United States
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415351485
  • Weight: 430g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Nov 2004
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

The Iraq War and Democratic Politics contains the work of leading scholars concerned with the political implications of the Iraq War and its relationship to and significance for democracy. The book shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global politics. Subjects covered include:

* the underlying moral and political issues raised by the war
* US foreign policy and the Middle East
* the fundamental dilemmas and contradictions of democratic intervention
* how the war was perceived in the UK, EU and US
* the challenges of creating democracy inside Iraq
* the influential role of NGOs
* the legitimacy of the war within international law
* the relationship between democratic government and intelligence.
About
Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. His research interests include international history, diplomacy, security, and, latterly, culture. Much of his previous work has been biographical. His biography of the philosopher-statesman Oliver Franks (1993) was one of the Observer's 'Books of the Year'. His biography of the military writer Basil Liddell Hart (1998) was listed for the Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. His unexpurgated edition of the Alanbrooke Diaries (2001, with Daniel Todman) was listed for the W. H. Smith Biography Award. John MacMillan is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Brunel University. Recent publications include Boundaries in Question: New Directions in International Relations (edited with Andrew Linklater), On Liberal Peace (1998), 'The Power of the Pen', Millennium (1998), and 'A Kantian Protest Against the Peculiar Discourse of Liberal Peace' (2001)